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Artist's Image in Artists View
glynor:
Yup.
ASenna1:
This explains why renaming files "Artist Name.jpg", as I did with "Andy Summers & John Etheridge.jpg" doesn't work either?
And what was posted was "Though there was a bug with that in slightly older versions: The JPG files were getting created with random extensions. Like "Jethro Tull.A3G" or "Pink Floyd.4U6". That bug was fixed something like 2 or 3 months ago."
I appreciate the help, but...
glynor:
--- Quote from: ASenna1 on March 03, 2016, 12:08:54 am ---This explains why renaming files "Artist Name.jpg", as I did with "Andy Summers & John Etheridge.jpg" doesn't work either?
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I don't know if the broken ones are valid JPGs. In any case, update your build. We can't help you with an old one. It does work with the current builds, as my screencast shows. If you have trouble with 21.0.50 then let us know.
--- Quote from: ASenna1 on March 03, 2016, 12:08:54 am ---And what was posted was "Though there was a bug with that in slightly older versions: The JPG files were getting created with random extensions. Like "Jethro Tull.A3G" or "Pink Floyd.4U6". That bug was fixed something like 2 or 3 months ago."
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Which is exactly what is happening in your case.
--- Quote from: ASenna1 on March 03, 2016, 12:08:54 am ---I appreciate the help, but...
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Please stop being mildly passive-aggressive. Neither Brian nor I are getting anything from helping you other than appreciation, because we don't work for JRiver. They do monitor these threads, and will probably chime in if we find something that needs to be fixed, but that hasn't happened here yet.
Step one in troubleshooting all issues is always to recreate with the current build. There is no point in troubleshooting an issue that was already fixed in November.
blgentry:
--- Quote from: ASenna1 on March 03, 2016, 12:08:54 am ---This explains why renaming files "Artist Name.jpg", as I did with "Andy Summers & John Etheridge.jpg" doesn't work either?
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No, it doesn't. A few notes:
1. I've personally had trouble with Artist images where the Artist names have special characters in them. Like & for example. But I run the Mac version of MC21 and it *might* be specific to the Mac version. I'm not 100% sure, so I'm mentioning it.
2. The file name must be exactly the same as the artist name. It's unclear from the screen shots if there are spaces between the & and the letters and whether there's one space or two. It has to be exactly the same. You'd want to check the Artist name in the tags and maybe cut and paste that name into the file name to be sure.
3. The view you've shown with album covers is in the Albums view. Artist images only show in the Artists view (or another view with a Category of Artist). (You probably realize this, but I'm mentioning it because you're having trouble.)
Brian.
ASenna1:
The previous screenshot is split view, albums on the left, artists on the right and the .jpg was a copy of the tag, so spacing and all other details were an exact copy.
I've update to 21.0.50 and I'm now able to load artists images, but I'm quite underwhelmed how MC handles artists pics, never mind the fact that last.fm seems to be a pretty limited source.
The longer story is that I've moved my library to MC from Helium Music Manager and I did this primarily because of MC's superior audio quality (I want to drive a NAD C390DD) and much faster and superior remote playback capability. But HMM is vastly superior to MC in handling artist images, along with artist information and it has surprised my how primitive and awkward MC is with all this. I'll post a few screenshots from HMM and you can see for yourself.
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