I restored my banshee db as per this question. My music and listening history shows up as expected, but the cover art is missing, and Banshee won't scan for it. "Rescan music library" doesn't check for cover art. Neither does disabling/re-enabling the cover art plugin. I can't find an option to do this--is it possible?
3 Answers
Try typing in a terminal:
banshee --fetch-artwork
This will make banshee download missing covers.
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Worked great! Banshee loaded all the embedded cover art in a few minutes after this command!– MuraliFeb 16, 2015 at 18:06
The covers are stored in ~/.cache/media-art/ You might try renaming the folder to force Banshee downloading the covers again. I haven't tested the solution, so don't delete the folder alltogether.
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1This doesn't technically answer the question in the title, but it did solve my problem. My solution was to backup
~/.cache/media-art/
as well as~/.config/banshee-1/banshee.db
.– MatthewNov 6, 2010 at 20:47
Banshee stores album covers in ~/.cache/media-art
. If you copy that folder along with the others, the covers should all be waiting for you when you open up Banshee.