Tired of album art filling your photo gallery? [released]

asked 2018-06-28 14:55:26 +0300

Moo-Crumpus
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updated 2018-09-12 23:44:40 +0300

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I'm annoyed because the tracker in the picture gallery shows me all covers of the music albums. They are available as AlbumArtSmall.jpg, AlbumArtBig.jpg, Folder.jpg or cover.jpg. I don't want to delete them, especially since I synchronize the entire music storage between my mobile phone, desktop PC and my NAS using resilio sync. If I put them out on the phone, they'd be gone on the other devices.

As nemo using a terminal do

 gsettings list-recursively | grep -i org.freedesktop.Tracker | sort | uniq

Find the line org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files ignored-directories-with-content. It will tell you, which files are ignored by tracker. Mine reads like this:

gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files ignored-files "['*~', '*.o', '*.la', '*.lo', '*.loT', '*.in', '*.csproj', '*.m4', '*.rej', '*.gmo', '*.orig', '*.pc', '*.omf' , '*.aux', '*.tmp', '*.po', '*.vmdk', '*.vm*', '*.nvram', '*.part', '*.rcore', ' *.lzo', 'autom4te', 'conftest', 'confstat', 'Makefile', 'SCCS', 'ltmain.sh', 'li btool', 'config.status', 'confdefs.h', 'configure', '#*#', '~$*.doc?', '~$*.dot? ', '~$*.xls?', '~$*.xlt?', '~$*.xlam', '~$*.ppt?', '~$*.pot?', '~$*.ppam', '~$*. ppsm', '~$*.ppsx', '~$*.vsd?', '~$*.vss?', '~$*.vst?', '*.desktop', '*.directory']"

I will add AlbumArt*.*, Folder.* and cover.* to be ignored from now on. I use placeholders for the filetypes, as Folder.* to match Folder.jpg, Folder.png - I guess I will never use media files like this that should be found by tracker. You may want to use Folder.jpg and so on to be more precise then I am. PS: as far as I know, you can't add a single value to the string of to be i´gnored files. You have to give the command the full value, i.e. the old part supplemented by the new one. This is done by gsettings set as follows:

 gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files ignored-files "['*~', '*.o', '*.la', '*.lo', '*.loT', '*.in', '*.csproj', '*.m4', '*.rej', '*.gmo', '*.orig', '*.pc', '*.omf' , '*.aux', '*.tmp', '*.po', '*.vmdk', '*.vm*', '*.nvram', '*.part', '*.rcore', ' *.lzo', 'autom4te', 'conftest', 'confstat', 'Makefile', 'SCCS', 'ltmain.sh', 'li btool', 'config.status', 'confdefs.h', 'configure', '#*#', '~$*.doc?', '~$*.dot? ', '~$*.xls?', '~$*.xlt?', '~$*.xlam', '~$*.ppt?', '~$*.pot?', '~$*.ppam', '~$*. ppsm', '~$*.ppsx', '~$*.vsd?', '~$*.vss?', '~$*.vst?', '*.desktop', '*.directory', 'Folder.*', 'cover.*', 'AlbumArt*.*']"

Use Sailfish Utilities to reset trackers database.