Album Art Not Showing

[LynetteCullen]

So, I have the 30 GB model of the iPod Classic 5.5 (iPod Video Enhanced), and I have installed a 3,000 mah battery and a 500 GB SSD.

I have also installed the custom rockbox build that is specifically for the iPod Video 5th and 5.5th with an mSATA SSD mod. Found here:

http://www.head-fi.org/t/707618/rockbox-for-ipod-video-5th-5-5th-msata-ssd-mod/180

Everything works perfectly on it. The dual boot feature is fine. The cabbiev2 theme that comes with the rockbox installation shows album art just fine, but when another theme is installed, the album art does not show at all. Mind you, I've only tried iVideo, iClassic, and iClassic Square. I always Initialize and Update my Database after each install, but for the life of me, I can't get the album art to show up.

I want to know if it is a RAM issue or if I am doing something wrong?

[[Saint]]

It's probably a theme syntax issue, because the build you're using is truly ancient and there were a few unavoidable breaking changes that the other themes are probably already accounting for but your build can't comprehend.

Not really a lot one can do about that without getting their hands dirty in the theme syntax and finding out which of the modern approaches themes expect to work now doesn't function as expected with a build from that time period.

From what I know of the theme syntax everything should be largely backwards compatible and you're free to use old or new syntax fairly interchangeably, so that shouldn't be the problem. One thing that did change is the way backdrops and conditional objects are handled, you might find the album art is actually being drawn but is "behind" the backdrop.

Out of curiosity, have you actually tried running an unmodified official build on this device? I ask because I know of a couple of cases where people just assumed they had to for some reason when they actually didn't and their SSD worked fine with mainline Rockbox. The fix in question was never merged with mainline because frankly it is just plain wrong, is clock state dependant, only really works by coincidence, and only a tiny subset of (technically/arguably broken) SSDs require what can at best be described as a workaround.

Edit: As an aside, there's absolutely no need to re-init or manually update the database on update of either the operating system or the media, update of the database happens automatically in a fashion entirely transparent to the user. The only time you should ever have to do so is if the database is so corrupted it is incapable of managing itself, which under normal circumstances shouldn't happen.

Edit Edit: less tiny than I thought, seems very hit and miss. Hmmm.

[Saint]

[burkjavier]

If the album art is a JPG, make sure that the image isn't saved as "Progressive".

Not sure if that's the issue, but I used GIMP to create / save album art and Progressive is the default setting for JPG's.  Could never figure out my own AA issues until I found that one setting that I needed to disable. 

[[Saint]]

While this is true, if the images were saved as progressive jpeg or anything else with the exception of bitmap, they wouldn't show in cabbiev2 either and if I'm not mistake OP reports this to be the case.


[Saint]

[cereal_killer]

Maybe this is not helpful here, but some themes require a reboot to work properly.

[[Saint]]

Maybe this is not helpful here, but some themes require a reboot to work properly.

Can you give examples of failing themes, and describe which asset(s) do not apply prior to rebooting the device?

This shouldn't be the case at all.


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[cereal_killer]

Can you give examples of failing themes, and describe which asset(s) do not apply prior to rebooting the device?

I should have mentioned, that album art not showing up prior to reeboot is a completely random pattern on my Cowon D2+ for which I compiled a recent build editing fat.c to make Rockbox at least usable now. See: http://www.rockbox.org/irc/log-20160919#16:49:53  So this might be really not helpful here.