diff --git a/audacious-2.4-rc1-albumart.patch b/audacious-2.4-rc1-albumart.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1f6db10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/audacious-2.4-rc1-albumart.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+diff -Nur audacious-2.4-rc1-orig/src/audacious/ui_albumart.c audacious-2.4-rc1/src/audacious/ui_albumart.c
+--- audacious-2.4-rc1-orig/src/audacious/ui_albumart.c	2010-08-10 17:41:57.000000000 +0200
++++ audacious-2.4-rc1/src/audacious/ui_albumart.c	2010-08-13 21:56:56.000000000 +0200
+@@ -194,11 +194,23 @@
+ 
+ gchar * get_associated_image_file (const gchar * filename)
+ {
+-    gchar * path = g_path_get_dirname (filename);
+-    gchar * base = g_path_get_basename (filename);
+-    gchar * image_file = fileinfo_recursive_get_image (path, base, 0);
++    gchar *fn, *path, *base, *image_file;
++
++    if (str_has_prefix_nocase(filename,"file://")) {
++        fn = g_filename_from_uri(filename,NULL,NULL);
++    }
++    else {
++        fn = g_strdup(filename);
++    }
++    if (!fn) {
++        return NULL;
++    }
++    path = g_path_get_dirname (fn);
++    base = g_path_get_basename (fn);
++    image_file = fileinfo_recursive_get_image (path, base, 0);
+ 
+     g_free (path);
+     g_free (base);
++    g_free (fn);
+     return image_file;
+ }
diff --git a/audacious.spec b/audacious.spec
index c36132e..a19102f 100644
--- a/audacious.spec
+++ b/audacious.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 Name: audacious
 Version: 2.4
-Release: 0.9.rc1%{?dist}
+Release: 0.10.rc1%{?dist}
 
 License: GPLv3
 Summary: GTK2 based media player similar to XMMS
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ URL: http://audacious-media-player.org/
 Group: Applications/Multimedia
 
 Source0: http://distfiles.atheme.org/audacious-%{version}-rc1.tgz
+# reported upstream, AUD-255
+Patch0: audacious-2.4-rc1-albumart.patch
 
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 
@@ -67,6 +69,7 @@ Files needed when building software for the Audacious media player.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n %{name}-%{version}-rc1
+%patch0 -p1 -b .albumart
 sed -i '\,^.SILENT:,d' buildsys.mk.in
 
 # From .desktop files remove MIME types the base build of the
@@ -175,6 +178,9 @@ gtk-update-icon-cache %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null || :
 
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Aug 13 2010 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@fedoraproject.org> - 2.4-0.10.rc1
+- Fix album art loader to convert file:// URIs into filenames.
+
 * Tue Aug 10 2010 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@fedoraproject.org> - 2.4-0.9.rc1
 - Update to rc1.