CoverArt folder takes too much space

[vivadavid]

Hi,

Today I did a fresh install of Dopamine (portable version) and, once my music library was fully indexed, I had a look at the CoverArt folder out of curiosity. Before proceeding with the issues, I wanted to say that each album of my library is stored in its own folder with its own folder.jpg for the cover. This cover is also embedded in each track.

I found two issues:

1. There 12 more images in the CoverArt folder than the number of albums in my library (and therefore, 12 more images than the number of folder.jpg files).

2. These images in the CoverArt folder take 354 MB, while all my folder.jpg files together take 228 MB of space.

If Dopamine, when indexing a music library, takes all the folder.jpg files and puts them in the CoverArt folder, the number and the space taken should be identical. It'd be hard to know where those extra 12 images come from, but I'm more concerned about Dopamine manipulating the images, somehow producing bigger files. Could it be the case that Dopamine, instead of prioritising the folder.jpg of each folder, takes the cover from the image embedded in the audio and, by doing so, a slightly different image is generated?

I use Dopamine 2.0.9 on Windows 11 (22H2).

Thanks so much for your help!