I created a new m3u playlist earlier this week to use on my Nexus installation and immediately noticed that I wasn’t getting any artist fanart or discart displaying during playback, like I did when using Matrix. However, when I played some of my old m3u playlists that were created on Matrix, they still worked fine, and all were showing both the artist fanart and discart as well.
When comparing the new playlist with one I created on Matrix, I noticed that directly after the #EXTINF: on each track, it has 2 numbers separated by a comma and the first number has a value, but on the old Matrix playlist, the first number is always zero. When I changed this value to zero on my new playlist, both the missing artwork types then appeared again. The 2nd number seems to represent the track number, but I’m clueless on what the first number represents, unless that is a unique artist ID number of some kind?
I only have a portable version of Omega installed with no music library, so can’t confirm if the same thing occurs as to what I’m seeing on Nexus. Anyway, I seemed to have found a reasonable solution, but was more curious if other users are seeing the same thing with their m3u playlists and if this is now the expected behaviour during playback or if its maybe a bug?