CD art missing in Wiim Home app for two CD's that I RIP'd

[paul_jr]

Can someone please help trouble shoot a problem that I am having? I RIP'd 130 CD's with Exact Audio Copy and then LAME to produce MP3 files, and then MusicBrainz for the metadata, and placed that in my Music folder of my DLNA server, and the Wiim Home App shows all of the artwork correctly for 128 CDs plus two CDs that show the 'artwork is missing' icon. I ran one of the two through MusicBrainz again, and that resulted in the exact same MP3 files. I ran the same MP3 files through Windows Media Player, and it sees the artwork.

I have a Wiim mini.

Can someone please help me troubleshoot this?

 

[simbun]

Any further thoughts? BTW, I am using the miniDLNA server in my wifi router.

Are you on Android? If you are have you tried clearing the app cache (Android > Settings > Apps > WiiM Home > Storage and cache: clear cache)? I don't think there's an equivalent on iOS.
If you're Android I'll put some instructions together on how to use UPnP Tool; a great UPnP logging app.

 

[paul_jr]

Are you on Android? If you are have you tried clearing the app cache (Android > Settings > Apps > WiiM Home > Storage and cache: clear cache)? I don't think there's an equivalent on iOS.
If you're Android I'll put some instructions together on how to use UPnP Tool; a great UPnP logging app.

Yes, I am on Android. I tried, just now, to clear the cache for the WIIM HOME APP, and the three pieces of artwork for CDs still are missing.

To clarify, perhaps 140 CD's have the correct artwork and only 3 CD's do not have any artwork.

Yes, I'd appreciate the UPnP Tool for getting the log from the UPnP transactions. BTW, is there a similar tool for getting the log from UPnP transactions for windows 11? When I browse the same DLNL server on Windows 11, with an app called VLC media player, it does not get the missing artwork problem.

 

[jfbuk]

I am still having the problem of a lack of CD artwork in Wiim Home app, and interestingly, I have evidence that the problem is NOT with my DLNA server as I found another DLNA consumer app that is uses DLNA as a client, and it gets the correct art work whereas WIIM HOME APP and my LG TV does not get it. I tried putting the album art in a .jpg file in the the same folder as the music, but that does not fix the problem. Any further thoughts? BTW, I am using the miniDLNA server in my wifi router.

Have got stats on the size of the image you are using ?

 

[paul_jr]

Have got stats on the size of the image you are using ?

600X600 pixels. I attach one example here.

 

[simbun]

600X600 pixels. I attach one example here.

I added the image to an album served by MiniDLNA 1.3.3 and it appeared in the WHA, so there's nothing wrong with the artwork.

Yes, I'd appreciate the UPnP Tool for getting the log from the UPnP transactions. BTW, is there a similar tool for getting the log from UPnP transactions for windows 11? When I browse the same DLNL server on Windows 11, with an app called VLC media player, it does not get the missing artwork problem.

There's a Windows app called Upplay which, whilst aesthetically challenged and requires a donation of 5 EUR, works really well and makes it much easier to log than UPnP Tool as it's a full blown control point (UPnP Tool is just a logger that requires you to manually configure and perform each browsing step).

To configure Upplay for logging:

• File > Preferences > Misc >
  • Log verbosity: 5
  • Log file name: C:\path\to\file.txt

Then in Upplay browse to the album (ideally through the Artist index as they'll be less data to look through) and close the app.
Open the log file (specified above) and scroll to the bottom.
Search up from the bottom of the document for DIDL, and copy everything between </DIDL-Lite> to the preceeding <DIDL-Lite xmlns:dc ...>
Paste this block into an xml formatter and you'll see the metadata for each object, including any artwork e.g.

<container id="0$=AlbumArtist$!2$9410$albums$*a223" parentID="0$=AlbumArtist$!2$9410$albums" childCount="11" restricted="1" searchable="1">
  <dc:title>1972 - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars</dc:title>
  <upnp:genre>Pop/Rock</upnp:genre>
  <dc:date>1984-01-01</dc:date>
  <upnp:artist>David Bowie</upnp:artist>
  <dc:creator>David Bowie</dc:creator>
  <upnp:artist role="AlbumArtist">David Bowie</upnp:artist>
  <dc:publisher>RCA : PD84702</dc:publisher>
  <upnp:albumArtURI dlna:profileID="JPEG_MED">http://192.*.*.*:9790/minimserver/*/Bowie,*20David/1984*20-*20The*20Rise*20And*20Fall*20Of*20Ziggy*20Stardust*20And*20The*20Spiders*20From*20Mars/folder.jpg</upnp:albumArtURI>
  <upnp:class>object.container.album.musicAlbum</upnp:class>
</container>

NOTE: The above example is of an album (<upnp:class>object.container.album.musicAlbum</upnp:class>) served by MinimServer.

If you want some instructions for UPnP Tool I'll put some together tomorrow.

 

[paul_jr]

I added the image to an album served by MiniDLNA 1.3.3 and it appeared in the WHA, so there's nothing wrong with the artwork.


There's a Windows app called Upplay which, whilst aesthetically challenged and requires a donation of 5 EUR, works really well and makes it much easier to log than UPnP Tool as it's a full blown control point (UPnP Tool is just a logger that requires you to manually configure and perform each browsing step).

To configure Upplay for logging:

• File > Preferences > Misc >
  • Log verbosity: 5
  • Log file name: C:\path\to\file.txt

Then in Upplay browse to the album (ideally through the Artist index as they'll be less data to look through) and close the app.
Open the log file (specified above) and scroll to the bottom.
Search up from the bottom of the document for DIDL, and copy everything between </DIDL-Lite> to the preceeding <DIDL-Lite xmlns:dc ...>
Paste this block into an xml formatter and you'll see the metadata for each object, including any artwork e.g.

<container id="0$=AlbumArtist$!2$9410$albums$*a223" parentID="0$=AlbumArtist$!2$9410$albums" childCount="11" restricted="1" searchable="1">
  <dc:title>1972 - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars</dc:title>
  <upnp:genre>Pop/Rock</upnp:genre>
  <dc:date>1984-01-01</dc:date>
  <upnp:artist>David Bowie</upnp:artist>
  <dc:creator>David Bowie</dc:creator>
  <upnp:artist role="AlbumArtist">David Bowie</upnp:artist>
  <dc:publisher>RCA : PD84702</dc:publisher>
  <upnp:albumArtURI dlna:profileID="JPEG_MED">http://192.*.*.*:9790/minimserver/*/Bowie,*20David/1984*20-*20The*20Rise*20And*20Fall*20Of*20Ziggy*20Stardust*20And*20The*20Spiders*20From*20Mars/folder.jpg</upnp:albumArtURI>
  <upnp:class>object.container.album.musicAlbum</upnp:class>
</container>

NOTE: The above example is of an album (<upnp:class>object.container.album.musicAlbum</upnp:class>) served by MinimServer.

If you want some instructions for UPnP Tool I'll put some together tomorrow.

Sorry in advance for a dumb question, but what is WHA?

 

[paul_jr]

Would anyone care to do an experiment for me? I can send you a link to my Google drive containing the MP3's of the three CD's that my Wiim Home App is having trouble with in my miniDLNA server. The experiment consists of you downloading a zip file, unzipping it, and temporarily installing the MP3's to your DLNA server, and test your WIIM HOME APP to see if you can see the CD art work. If you can't see the artwork, how about figuring out why WIIM HOME APP doesn't like it?

 

[harkpabst]

Sorry in advance for a dumb question, but what is WHA?

WiiM Home App

 

[simbun]

Sorry in advance for a dumb question, but what is WHA?

WiiM Home App.

I'll be able to test the files in the morning.