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Artist pictures

What it is for

Section titled “What it is for”

Show each artist’s picture on their page, in the artists list and in a search — from your own files first.

An artist's page: a round picture of the artist beside their name, Play all and Shuffle, and a wide picture dimmed behind them

How to use it

Section titled “How to use it”
  1. In the folder named after the artist, beside their album folders, put artist.jpg or folder.jpg; a backdrop.jpg there fills the band behind their name.
  2. With a Jellyfin server, the pictures it holds for an artist are used next.
  3. For the rest, Kaveo looks online. To stop it, turn off Artist pictures online in Settings › Metadata and click Save.
  4. To delete the pictures found online, click Clear beside Downloaded artist pictures.

Good to know

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  • Online pictures come from MusicBrainz and Wikimedia Commons, which receive the artist names and album titles — only for the artists you scroll past, as they appear.
  • A picture is used only when one of the artist’s albums confirms who they are, so an artist with only loose songs keeps the placeholder.
  • An online picture’s author and licence are shown under the artist’s name; the licence opens the picture’s page.
  • With a free fanart.tv or TheAudioDB key in Settings › Metadata, their pictures come after these, and a biography from TheAudioDB or Last.fm appears under the name.