Ubuntu
gallery-app package

Gallery app should not show music album art fetched by mediascanner

Bug #1469879 reported by Michael Zanetti
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mediascanner (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When having some music files on the phone, mediascanner will download artwork for them. The Gallery app picks it up and displays hundrets of cover arts in the pictures feed. Deleting them from the Gallery brings them back all the time because mediascanner redownloads them. This makes it hard to find pictures taken with the camera because they drown in the noise of music artwork.

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Bill Filler (bfiller) wrote :

Could you add the steps to reproduce this please?

Changed in gallery-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
no longer affects: gallery-app
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Michael Zanetti (mzanetti) wrote :

Well, put some music on your device. media-scanner will do the rest. The album-art will show up in gallery and you can't really remove it any more. It needs to be music where media-scanner is able to fetch the artwork. So probably won't work with your own garage band, but any well known charts music should do.

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L D (leoubuntuone) wrote :

This is a duplicate of this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gallery-app/+bug/1475084. The gallery should just scan for images in the "Pictures" folder.

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Michael Zanetti (mzanetti) wrote :

I copied some music to my phone again and again the gallery becomes unusable.... It holds an entry with album-art per song. That means, after copying some 10 albums to the phone, the pictures I've taken with the camera etc are now mixed in between 200 music artwork images...

This is quite annoying and for instance my wife rejects to use the phone as music player because of this.

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Michi Henning (michihenning) wrote :

Yes, it's annoying, and it's been reported previously.

I suspect the correct way to deal with it is for the gallery app to not look in places where we don't expect to see photos.

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