albumart is returning "Access denied"

[daveola]

albumart is returning "Access denied"

[jcorporation]

Looks like the file permissions are incorrect.

[daveola]

The permissions for all my covers is the same user/permissions as all my music.

[daveola]

For the example in the log:

% pwd
/data/Music/Amazon/Adam_Ant/2009-The_Very_Best_Of
% ls -l
total 7740
7708 -rw-r--r-- 1 dave dave 7889317 Nov  2  2020 02-Goody_Two_Shoes.mp3
  32 -rw-r--r-- 1 dave dave   32176 Oct 13  2020 Cover.jpg

[MaxKellermann]

Your MPD version is old and unsupported. Closing without looking any further.

[daveola]

This is the current version of mpd that is distributed with Ubuntu - does mpd have any plans of pushing an update forward?

[MaxKellermann]

How does this "pushing an update forward" look like, in your imagination?

Did you not know that it is against Ubuntu's policy to ship bug fixes to their users?
We can't go around this policy, and we can't "push" something to an external entity like Ubuntu/Canonical. All we can do is publish bug fixes, and it's up to everybody else to download those bugfixes from us. It's "pull" by you (and Ubuntu etc.), because there's no way we can "push" anything. "Pushing" isn't how open source works.

In any case, looking at bug reports of old MPD versions is a waste of our precious time, that's why such bug reports will be closed without even looking at them.
If you use a known-buggy MPD version, you'll have bugs! All versions but the latest are known-buggy (of course, because the latest release contains fixes for those known bugs).