How to gather missing artist artwork

[Rouzax]

Environment

• Ampache version: 98094ad
• Web server + version: IIS 8.5 + PHP 7.0.11
• Server operating system:Server 2012 R2

Settings

; Album Art Store on Disk
; This defines if arts should be stored on disk instead of database.
; DEFAULT: false
album_art_store_disk = "true"

; Local Metadata Directory
; This define a local metadata directory with write access where to store
; heavy data if enabled (album arts, ...)
; DEFAULT: none
local_metadata_dir = "C:/inetpub/wwwroot/Ampache/_metadata"

Description

Because of a stupid mistake by me, during the initial catalog creation Ampache did not have permission to write the images to C:/inetpub/wwwroot/Ampache/_metadata.
Now the first 102 artist images are missing

resulting in broken images

I've tried running the catalog import complete, only artwork, etc. But no matter what I try the artist are not gathered anymore.
How can I fix this without recreating my catalog?

Side question, is it possible to create a catalog without it directly starting to import?

PS: Sorry for the issue spam, but I'm reinstalling Ampache from scratch.

[Phyks]

I don't have a working instance at hands at the moment, but I remember there is a button somewhere to force redownload of all the artworks.

EDIT: See #1235 (comment).

I am not sure there is a way to create a catalog without it directly starting to import. What would be your use case for this?

[Rouzax]

I think that Gather art from the Catalog does the same as catalog_update.inc -g but will give it a try

The use case for not starting the import is that my catalog is fairly large and the import that is started through the web GUI will be terminated for taking to long anyway.

[Rouzax]

Unfortunately, it did not add the missing images to Artist

[Phyks]

Hmm, this is weird it did not add them back. Sorry, I am away and without access to my running Ampache dev at the moment :/

Could you fill in another issue for the task of creating a catalog without starting to import immediately? Thanks

[Rouzax]

Because I needed to create a new catalog because of #1402 this is no longer an issue for me although the bug still exists.

[Phyks]

Ok, so leaving it open for the moment.

[tljohnsn]

I had this problem and it turned out google was blocking queries. I put in spotify api keys and then it started working.

[mitchray]

Closing due to inactivity, reopen if this is still relevant in the latest version