# Problems with some plugins

**URL:** <https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/problems-with-some-plugins/6079>\
**Category:** Misc\
**Created:** [March 11, 2025, 9:57am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/problems-with-some-plugins/6079 "2025-03-11T09:57:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![cma84](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/cma84/32/2543_2.png) [@cma84](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/cma84)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 9:57am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/problems-with-some-plugins/6079/1 "2025-03-11T09:57:29Z")

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Hello everyone.

I am new to Mopidy and I almost got it working but some things still don’t work properly, I hope you can help me.

I have Mopidy-Iris deployed on a Raspberry Pi 4b.

- I use the Mopidy-Local add-on to be able to do a folder navigation in the directory where I store my music, so far so good but I have two problems:  
1 - Despite having an image of the album cover inside the folder (cover.jpg or folder.jpg) in Mopidy-Iris does not show the image.  
2 - When I access to a folder the order of the songs changes, although in the name of the song appears the track number 01 - song, 02 - song, etc… the number disappears and the order of the tracks becomes alphabetical.

- Mopidy-Youtube add-on: I have installed and enabled it, I can search for content and it is listed, but then when I try to play content from this source it doesn’t play. I don’t know what I can do.

- Mopidy-YTMusic plugin: I install the plugin, I start the setup by CLI but when I go to save the json file it gives permissions error. I have tried in several directories, with write permissions both for the user mopidy and for all users and nothing, there is no way.

For both deployment and troubleshooting I am using ChatGPT and it is helping me a lot but in these problems I am stuck.

Thanks in advance.  
Regards.

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**Author:** ![Matthias\_Meulien](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/matthias_meulien/32/2260_2.png) [@Matthias\_Meulien](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Matthias_Meulien)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/problems-with-some-plugins/6079/2 "2025-03-11T19:20:24Z")

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Welcome @cma84!

> I use the Mopidy-Local add-on to be able to do a folder navigation in the directory where I store my music, so far so good but I have two problems:  
> 1 - Despite having an image of the album cover inside the folder (cover.jpg or folder.jpg) in Mopidy-Iris does not show the image.

I suggest that you visit the `/local` URL served by your Mopidy host using a web browser. It displays the images known to Mopidy-Local. For example:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/mopidy/original/2X/e/e3a69331c9709be5da7b70002a2c65d82673804a.jpeg)

Then read from the log generated by the `local scan` command: It explicitly tells the number of parsed images. Also check the value of `local/album_art_files` in the server configuration (but the default is `*.jpg, *.jpeg, *.png` and thus should match the examples you gave) and check the file access rights.

> 2 - When I access to a folder the order of the songs changes, although in the name of the song appears the track number 01 - song, 02 - song, etc… the number disappears and the order of the tracks becomes alphabetical.

The Mopidy-Local database is build from metadata extracted by GStreamer from the music files (the ID3v2 tags and analogous things for FLAC, Ogg, etc.); Files are expected to be properly tagged (see [Picard](https://picard.musicbrainz.org/), [beets](https://beets.readthedocs.io/), etc.).

I am not using Iris but I confirm that once files are tagged, the database build by Mopidy-Local is complete and sorting, searching and such things work as expected.

Sorry, I can help on the other topics since not using the mentioned extensions.

Have a nice time with Mopidy and your music collection!

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**Author:** ![cma84](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/cma84/32/2543_2.png) [@cma84](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/cma84)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 10:46am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/problems-with-some-plugins/6079/3 "2025-03-19T10:46:52Z")

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Thank you for your response.

I’m already solving the problems I was having and getting familiar with Mopidy.

Now I have a new challenge, but I will open a new thread as this one is not related.

I will mark this one as closed.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 10:47am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/problems-with-some-plugins/6079/4 "2025-03-22T10:47:31Z")

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