Artwork logic / instant fallback?

> Sometimes it happens that LMS shows the generic album cover (=missing/no
> artwork) for -some- albums that do actually have album artwork embedded.
> There's no discernible pattern to it. Just random, the more time since
> the last wipe&rescan has passed, the more likely it is to happen.

That's news to me.

> But I was wondering: is there some kind of *artwork fallback mechanism*
> in place?
>
> Like: if none of the entries in the database for artwork works/finds a
> cover let's look for cover.jpg or folder.jpg in the same folder. I'm

The artwork lookup is done at scan time. And yes, that's how it works then.

> That would make a possible corruption of the artwork database or other
> things that prevent existing artwork from being displayed a lot less
> annoying and a wipe&rescan could wait.

Did you check your server.log about hints about database corruption?

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Michael