Don't get me wrong, it works great. However it's taken me a very long time to understand what it takes for it to produce information pertinent to audio tracks and album cover thumbnails that correspond to the correct song or album in question.
In essence, for all those tracks to show exactly what you want to see, you have to be 100% accurate in properly spelling out the name of an artist, the exact album pertinent to a particular track, and the track itself. Otherwise it won't visually show an album thumbnail, but instead just a musical note icon.
With major music artists it just required to search for each track and the artist to match the proper album. But where it gets weird is when you're dealing with artists using the Internet without a formal music publisher. When you can find the artist, even an album graphic, but that Roku's Media Player database simply doesn't recognize it. Something I found in trying to connect a Celtic music artist to a specific piece of work.
Another problem that left me with the Media Player showing only those red musical note icon instead of an album thumbnail are music collections of classical music which are about major composers (Mozart,Beethoven, Bach...etc.) but may not be clear on the symphony or musicians involved. Which apparently "confuses" Roku's database and can't match them to a particular album, even if it existed as a vinyl record.
Though from Roku's perspective, they may simply lament, "Who cares?" I guess for most folks they will just deal with those red musical note icons and call it a day...lol. The short answer? It sucks to have OCD and actually be obsessed over the appearance and consistency of such things.
At least I managed to eventually find all the right database info required to make those album thumbnails show up. Except for my Celtic and Classical music categories which I chose to deliberately alter to make all of the show the red musical note icon just to be consistent. Oh well...
In essence, for all those tracks to show exactly what you want to see, you have to be 100% accurate in properly spelling out the name of an artist, the exact album pertinent to a particular track, and the track itself. Otherwise it won't visually show an album thumbnail, but instead just a musical note icon.
With major music artists it just required to search for each track and the artist to match the proper album. But where it gets weird is when you're dealing with artists using the Internet without a formal music publisher. When you can find the artist, even an album graphic, but that Roku's Media Player database simply doesn't recognize it. Something I found in trying to connect a Celtic music artist to a specific piece of work.
Another problem that left me with the Media Player showing only those red musical note icon instead of an album thumbnail are music collections of classical music which are about major composers (Mozart,Beethoven, Bach...etc.) but may not be clear on the symphony or musicians involved. Which apparently "confuses" Roku's database and can't match them to a particular album, even if it existed as a vinyl record.
Though from Roku's perspective, they may simply lament, "Who cares?" I guess for most folks they will just deal with those red musical note icons and call it a day...lol. The short answer? It sucks to have OCD and actually be obsessed over the appearance and consistency of such things.
At least I managed to eventually find all the right database info required to make those album thumbnails show up. Except for my Celtic and Classical music categories which I chose to deliberately alter to make all of the show the red musical note icon just to be consistent. Oh well...
