Mpd widget not showing cover art (symlink needed)

[Incognito4nonymous]

awesome v4.2 (Human after all)
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So I'm back after... This :
#227

And I finally managed to make my way out of the version problems I faced back then, and I'm now back with all things patched up, but surprisingly enough, I still got the issue on my Slackware...

When I play music from an album, it will just display the track informations, but no cover art despite having created mpdcover.png/jpg in /tmp.

[lcpz]

The widget has changed since then.

There is no more external script to fetch the cover and put it into /tmp. Now the widget retrieves it directly from your music folders. Please read the mpd wiki again.

[Incognito4nonymous]

Oh, I'm not longer using the version that required the external script, I think it was mpdcover, I'm using a commit that's from june 2017, and it didn't used that anymore, anyway I updated the mpd widget to the latest commit, and still no cover art displaying despite the updates. So for some reason the issue is still ongoing...
My system is Slackware 14.2 64bits.

[lcpz]

Assuming that you've correctly set the input table and that you have an image file in the album folder which is in the format *.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$, then the only possible issue is that this find is not working for you. Try spawning the same command in the shell and see what it does on you machine.

Also, check if this happens because of special characters or not.

[Incognito4nonymous]

Hummm, how am I spawning this in console ? (Sorry for Noobishness)

[lcpz]

Let's try in a different way. Put the following code in lain/widget/mpd.lua after this line:

naughty.notify { text = cover, timeout = 0 }

Start mpd, play a song, and give me:

1. a screenshot of the notifications that will appear;
2. full path and ls -A of the album folder of the current song.

[Incognito4nonymous]

Fatboy Slim - 10th and Crenshaw.mp3 Fatboy Slim - Everybody Needs A 303.mp3 Fatboy Slim - First Down.mp3 Fatboy Slim - Give The PoMan A Break.mp3 Fatboy Slim - Going Out of My Head.mp3 Fatboy Slim - Punk to Funk.mp3 Fatboy Slim - Santa Cruz Extended.mp3 Fatboy Slim - Song for Lindy.mp3 Fatboy Slim - The Sound of Milwaukee.mp3 Fatboy Slim - The Weekend Starts Here.mp3 cover.jpg

/ntfs/Users/Incognito/Music/Fatboy Slim - Better Living Through Chemestry

Here

[lcpz]

As supposed, the find command doesn't get cover.jpg.

Try this command in shell, see how you can make it work to get such file.

find '/ntfs/Users/Incognito/Music/Fatboy Slim - Better Living Through Chemestry' -maxdepth 1 -type f | egrep -i -m1 '*.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$'

[Incognito4nonymous]

Here's the output

/ntfs/Users/Incognito/Music/Fatboy Slim - Better Living Through Chemestry/cover.jpg

Which really gets me lost now... It seems to get the file....

[lcpz]

Obviously something is lost on Lua side when parsing wildcards. Try setting cover_pattern input to cover.jpg, cover.*, or whatever pattern you can think of.

[Incognito4nonymous]

Heck, even tried to link it to a single file and it didn't worked... And yea, I have imagemagick installed... I really don't get it, it works out of the box on Debian...

[lcpz]

Imagemagick is not required anymore. The widget just need to grab the correct path.

I don't know what to think. Try to figure out what is missing on your Slack distro.

[lcpz]

@Incognito4nonymous Any updates on this?

[Incognito4nonymous]

Still stuck mang...

[lcpz]

Could it be possible that the full path is right, but it needs to be escaped?

Try with directories and files that don't have whitespaces or special characters.

[Incognito4nonymous]

Still doesn't work, I already tried that a while ago and just also re-tried, again I tried on my Debian system and it works flawlessly, and I got the same Awesome configuration on both of em.

[Incognito4nonymous]

Pardon me, my mouse slipped and I pressed "Close and Comment" Rather than "Comment"

[lcpz]

You might try to find on reddit other Slackware users and see if they can replicate the issue.

Other than that, I don't know what to do here.

[Incognito4nonymous]

Back, but with Debian 9.6 making my machine run this time, running Awesome 4.2 compiled against Lua 5.3.3, and hum, seemingly it ain't Slackware specific, maybe has it something to do with the fact my music is stored in a ntfs partition ?
I'm definitely decided to get over this this time, there's nothing pushing me back anymore

[Incognito4nonymous]

An idea just striked me like a nuclear bomb. If it works on my raspberry pi that has the music folder in the user directory, what prevents it from working here must be the fact the music files are stored on another partition (NTFS one) the partition's format shouldn't be what causes a problem in my opinion, and I may have found a quick and dirty fix, I'm gonna see what happens if I replace my user music folder with a symlink pointing towards the desired repertory

[Incognito4nonymous]

It just worked ! I can't believe I resolved this issue by myself !
It should be added to wiki that it is preferable to create a symlink to the folder containing the music for the widget to function properly, closing the issue !

[lcpz]

You have edit rights for the wiki, can you please update it yourself, reporting the example of how you created the symlink in your specific case?

[lcpz]

I updated the wiki by myself.

[Incognito4nonymous]

Daym, I just received the mail now, you outran me.
Also, honored to have been given the edit rights man.

[Incognito4nonymous]

There we go, just added a bit of detail about that case.