Decibel Audio Player

Cover cache

Asked by weskey5644

Hello everyone!!

I am trying to discover the location of DAP's cover cache or if there is a location where DAP store's "now playing cover art". Is there a location for this? If so, where would I find it? I am configuring conky to display what's playing and I would like to show the "now playing cover art" from DAP.

Thanks!!

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Best Anonym25712 (anonym25712) said : 		#1

Hi,

Covers are simply stored in /tmp and deleted upon exit. However, there's no way to know which one is associated to the current song. I've opened a bug for this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/decibel-audio-player/+bug/715833

Should be fixed in the next few days.

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weskey5644 (weskey5644) said : 		#2

Thanks!!

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weskey5644 (weskey5644) said : 		#3

Thanks François Ingelrest, that solved my question.

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VastOne (vastone) said : 		#4

I have a resolution for this... but first a recommendation to the developer... If you add a symlink to the two files from /tmp and name them current-cover-small.png and current-cover,png in either ~/.config/decibel or ~./cache/decibel would make this a very easy solution.. A couple of other players that use the /tmp directory the same way have done this and it works perfectly because we can then just link to that static file from apps like conky...

For the resolution of conky and decibel and cover art, I have created 4 files that will produce a conky display and cover art on the linux desktop...

Here is a link with all the files and an explanation on how to use them and an image of what it will look like

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/144910/#p144910

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VastOne (vastone) said : 		#5

My apologies... I did not see that this was fixed in the bug 715833 with the exact same things I had recommended..

Forgive....

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VastOne (vastone) said : 		#6

I have adjusted the How-To Conky to reflect the way to use

image ~/.config/decibel-audio-player/current-cover.png

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/144910/#p144910