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Confusing results for File Location
macdonjh:
I used:
Tools -> Options -> File Location -> Cover Art
to find my album cover art. According to MC, my album cover art files are in this folder:
/Users/Jack/Library/Application Support/J River/Media Center 21/Cover Art
But according to Finder, that folder does not exist. In fact, doing a search using Finder of my entire internal hard drive does not find a folder called Cover Art.
Any ideas about where my cover art is hiding? Note that for music files the Image File tag shows "Inside File". But my movie files Image File tag shows a file name, so I assume that cover art is supposed to be in the folder shown above.
blgentry:
Cover art is confusing. Read the wiki article on cover art for full details about all the options.
There are several locations where art can be stored for music files including inside the file. Inside the file is the BEST! Because you can't lose it, can't not know where it is, and can't separate it from the music file. So you've made a good decision by making MC store art inside the file.
If you want to see where the art is for any given music file, open the tagging window, then find the Image portion, and it will show you the image location. If the image is on disk (and not inside the file) it will show you the exact file path.
Notice that I keep writing "music". That's because cover art is handled one way for music and another way for movies, and yet another way for TV shows! I told you it was confusing. :)
For movies, the cover art is always stored beside the movie file. So it's in the same directory (folder) with the movie and should be named the same as the movie.
Hopefully that will clear this up a bit for you.
Brian.
macdonjh:
Thanks, Brian. I did read the Wiki. My confusion stems from two sources:
* Near as I can tell, MC on my computer is set up to store music cover art BOTH in the music file AND in a cover art folder, and
The folder MC tells me to look in for my music cover art doesn't exist according to Finder.
*
My movie cover art is saved in the same folders as my individual movies (one folder for each movie).
My TV Show cover art is grouped with the shows. I have one folder per show (I don't have sub-folders for separate seasons).
blgentry:
--- Quote from: macdonjh on January 18, 2019, 06:32:45 am ---
* Near as I can tell, MC on my computer is set up to store music cover art BOTH in the music file AND in a cover art folder, and
The folder MC tells me to look in for my music cover art doesn't exist according to Finder.
*
--- End quote ---
I'm not 100% sure, but I think if that folder does not exist, then MC just won't use it. If you want to also store cover art in a separate folder, then you should create a folder to do so. I recommend creating it outside of the JRiver master folders. Why? Because there are JRiver major versions (V23, V24, V25) released every year. When you upgrade, a new folder will be created. Then it's going to be confusing as to why your cover art is in the V24 folder, while you are using V25 (or 26, or 27, etc). Instead, create a cover art folder somewhere else. I might put it inside of "Documents/JRiver/Cover Art" if I was doing it.
I don't personally think it's necessary because you are storing the art inside each file anyway. But the option is there if you would like to use it.
Brian.
macdonjh:
Based on what you wrote, Brian, I guess MC is storing my album cover art in the tags/ files and NOT in a separate folder. I found a folder path because that is where MC WOULD have stored my album cover art if I didn't direct it to be stored in the tags/files?
I figured there would also be a folder with cover art in it because a folder was defined for MC to store album cover art, it was just never created because tags/ files are being used.
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