FAQ

How do I make Muine show album cover images?

Muine will automatically show album covers based on one or more of the following:

The presence of a cover image in the same directory as your music file, called Cover or Folder with a .jpeg, .png or .gif extention.
The presence of an embedded cover image in your music file (Using the ID3V2 specification)
Searching for a matching album on MusicBrainz and Amazon according to the album title, and artist. This is carried out as a background process - new covers should be pulled in every few seconds until Muine has retrieved art for all albums in your library.

Muine doesn't fetch any album covers - what's up?: Check that your music files are correctly tagged with the correct album, and artist information. If your images still aren't being fetched then please report a bug with as much information as possible.

Muine can't find covers for some of my albums - can I add them?: You can drag n' drop images onto the album cover section of the main window, or straight onto the albums in the "Play Album" window

Where does Muine store album covers?: All covers are added to ~/.gnome2/muine/covers.db. There are two DBus methods for retrieving the cover for the current playing song, but none currently for getting arbitrary covers. Patches welcome implementing a sane API for getting the cover for an arbitrary album/song.

How can I stop folders from being watched, or remove files from my library?: It is not possible to remove files from the library through the interface. You can, however, remove watched folders by editing the /apps/muine/watched_folders GConf string list, and clean out your library by removing ~/.gnome2/muine/songs.db and ~/.gnome2/muine/covers.db.

My MP3 files will not play and I get the error "don't know how to handle application/x-id3". Why?

This is caused by not having MP3 support in your version of gstreamer. How to fix this depends on the distribution you are using:

For Ubuntu Breezy: sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-plugins gstreamer0.8-plugins-multiverse gstreamer0.8-ffmpeg
Gentoo: emerge gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-ffmpeg

I get warnings about ellipsize properties!: Muine emits these warnings when run under Gtk+ < 2.6. They are harmless.

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