Pictures

myMPD supports local coverart for albums, streams and tags.

Albumart

myMPD can get albumart through through direct access to the MPD music directory or through the MPD protocol.

Direct access

The fastest and most flexible way is through direct access with albumart in folders.

This offers:

• Configurable albumart filenames
• Support of thumbnails
• Support of more than one image, e. g. cover, back, inlet

Configure the music directory:

1. If connected through the local MPD socket: myMPD gets the music_directory automatically, if the music directory option is set to auto.
2. If connected over network: set the music directory option in the connection dialog.

Enable albumart support:

1. Albumart in folders per album
   • Put the pictures and thumbnails in the album folders, name it always the same, e.g. cover-sm.webp (thumbnail) and cover.webp (full image)
   • Configure the name in the settings (albumart filenames and thumbnail names), a comma separated list of filenames and only basenames (filenames without extensions) are also supported
2. Embedded albumart in the music files
   • myMPD must be compiled with flac/libid3tag support (default in prebuild packages)
   • Supported formats are id3v2 for MP3 and Vorbis Comments for FLAC and OGG
   • myMPD reads all embedded images, not only the first one as MPD.

Through MPD protocol

This is useful if myMPD does not run on the same host as MPD.

1. Albumart in folders per album
   • Only MPD >= 0.21 supports the albumart command
   • Put the albumart in the album folders, the basename must be cover (e.g. cover.jpg), this is not configurable
2. Embedded albumart in the music files
   • Only MPD >= 0.22 supports the readpicture command
   • Only first image is read

myMPD restricts the size to 5 MB.

Streams

1. Images must be named as the uri of the stream, replace the characters <>/.:?&$%!#\|;= with _, e.g. http___stream_laut_fm_nonpop.png for uri http://stream.laut.fm/nonpop.
2. Put these images in the /var/lib/mympd/pics/thumbs folder.

Pictures for other tags

The “Browse Database” grid view can display pictures for other tags than album also. To enable this simply create a directory with the tagname in the /var/lib/mympd/pics directory and put pictures with filename equal the tag value in this directory.

You can download artistart with the script from https://github.com/jcorporation/musicdb-scripts

Tag values are case sensitive and are sanitized: / is replaced with _ (AC/DC -> AC_DC)

Example

Create a directory named AlbumArtist under /var/lib/mympd/pics. Add pictures with the AlbumArtist name as filename in this directory.

Other pictures

Home icon pictures

Pictures for the home icons must be placed in the directory /var/lib/mympd/pics/thumbs.

Background images

Background images must be saved in the /var/lib/mympd/pics/backgrounds folder.

Supported file extensions

myMPD recognizes following file extensions:

• webp, png, jpg, jpeg, svg, avif

Custom placeholder images

You can add custom placeholder images for albumart.

• /var/lib/mympd/pics/thumbs/coverimage-booklet.webp
• /var/lib/mympd/pics/thumbs/coverimage-mympd.webp
• /var/lib/mympd/pics/thumbs/coverimage-notavailable.webp
• /var/lib/mympd/pics/thumbs/coverimage-stream.webp

You can use every supported file extension.

Covercache

myMPD caches covers in the folder /var/cache/mympd/covercache. Files in this folder can be safely deleted. myMPD housekeeps the covercache on startup and each day.

You can disable the covercache by setting the Covercache expiration value to 0 days.