Hi. I've been having problems getting cover art sync'ed onto my ipod
with rb 2.96 on ubuntu 12.04; I think I've tracked down why, but am not
sure the best way to tackle it.

If I import a folder containing mp3
files that contain embedded artwork in an ID3 tag, and I play one of the
songs, then rb_gst_process_embedded_image pulls out the image & stores
it in ~/.cache/rhythmbox/album-art/ . Later, when I sync my ipod, the
call to rb_ext_db_request from impl_track_added picks up that cached
artwork, and things work swell.

However, if I *don't* first play one of
the songs, then the artwork never gets pulled & stored in the cache;
impl_track_added doesn't look for embedded artwork, and so no artwork
gets loaded.

Any thoughts on the direction a fix might go? 'm willing
to do the coding, and am hoping not to rock the boat too much. The
existing code to look for embedded artwork seems at home in the
gstreamer code, and not really a great fit with the sync code. But then
again, it writes to ~/.cache/rhythmbox/, not ~/.cache/gstreamer/ . I do
have the option to also write the artwork into a separate jpg that
folder import might consume and perhaps cache, but I'm not convinced
that would help, as I'd need to pull the metadata for the artwork from
on of the mp3 files. 

Also, is it highly encouraged that any such
development be done against 2.98 instead of 2.96? The former pulled some
errors last time I tried to build/run it; rather than try to fix that, I
just installed the source for 2.96. 
 
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