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Bizarre artwork situation
songsequencer:
I chose an album to play today and discovered that it had some random image (from my job, not even music related) for the album cover. How did that happen? So I tried "Remove cover art" so that I could put the proper one in. I got the message, "Do you also want to delete the cover art files from your hard disk?" This message concerned me -- "cover art fileS" -- did they mean all cover art or just this file that I'm trying to delete? First I tried "No," but then the image wouldn't delete. After reviewing the wiki, which wasn't very clear, I guessed that it would probably just be this one, so next I chose "Yes," but the image still wouldn't delete.
Next I tried to figure out where the cover art was stored, and discovered this is a whole labyrinth that I could get lost in. Eventually I found that MC was storing some images in a Library Application Support folder (which I do NOT like at all, especially since my music files are on an external drive shared by multiple users [on the same iMac]). So I went into that Application Support folder to try to delete the artwork from there. I was shocked to find that there are hundreds of random images that have been assigned to my albums! This image from my job was not only on the album I was working on but also on multitudes of other albums. I also found other random images, like a single green line, for album cover art work on multiple albums.
First, how could this even happen? And second, is there a way I can fix this without going through some 3000 albums and deleting the random images one by one (or several by several when multiples appear together)?
Finally, I would like for my album artwork to be with the albums themselves to avoid this kind of mess, but I wasn't sure what was the best way to do it. Again, the wiki was confusing to me. There are three "Audio Mode" options but I don't quite understand them. I'm new to MC; I've been using iTunes, and it appears to me that the images are associated with each song file. I used to also sometimes put a specific image with a specific song within the album (such as 7" single artwork for a song that was released as a single) -- it would nice to be able to do that too in MC. At any rate, I don't want the cover art in some separate place (like the Library Application Support folder!). Then MC won't be creating separate image files for each computer user. It's all such a mess now that I don't know where to begin to clean it all up.
Scobie:
If you go to Tools -> Options -> File Locations there is a "Cover Art" heading that should tell you where the cover art is stored. There is an option that is "As the same folder as the file" which I think is what you want.
This also gives you the option of storing the cover art in the Tag which works well too.
Once you have stored against the Tag you can use the option to Clean Cover Art Folder. But make sure the images are stored against Tag first.
RoderickGI:
One way that you can get some "random" image recorded as Cover Art against a whole bunch of audio files is.
1. You are working and copy an image, which stays in the Copy buffer/Clipboard.
2. You are later using MC and select a bunch of files, whether on purpose or not, as you are using Views, Playlists, or Smartlists.
3. For some reason, you try to Paste something somewhere. Your work image is in the copy buffer, MC has a number of selected files, so it pastes the image into those audio files as Cover Art.
I haven't done the above myself, yet, but I have seen it done. Or worked through the issue with others who have done it. For that reason, I always make sure I know exactly what is selected whenever I do a function in MC, and I check the Status Bar at the bottom of Standard View before executing the function.
blgentry:
If you change MC to look for artwork in the folders with your music files, and you already have cover art in those folders, and it is named correctly, then MC should pick it up.
In order to make MC look for the art in this new location, first set the option. Then you might need to tell each file to update for the new location. Select an album, then right click > cover art > quick find
I'm not sure if that's necessary or not. If it is, you can easily do this on many albums at once if you'd like. Assuming it works on one album, I would then do it on a few albums at once. Then I would probably do it in batches of 50 albums or so. That shouldn't take too long and it's not such a large chunk that MC would get hung.
Good luck.
Brian.
songsequencer:
--- Quote from: Scobie on October 01, 2019, 01:07:01 am ---If you go to Tools -> Options -> File Locations there is a "Cover Art" heading that should tell you where the cover art is stored. There is an option that is "As the same folder as the file" which I think is what you want.
This also gives you the option of storing the cover art in the Tag which works well too.
Once you have stored against the Tag you can use the option to Clean Cover Art Folder. But make sure the images are stored against Tag first.
--- End quote ---
When I go to Tools->Options->File Locations, the Library/Application Support line has "..." which I assume means it is not active. Is that a correct assumption? Yet that folder is full of cover art images. What is checked is "Audio Mode: In the same folder as the file," though I may have checked that box after this artwork mess appeared and I discovered that cover art was going into the Application Support folder.
Just now, I put a check in the box "Also store image in the file's tag," but I'm not really sure what that's supposed to do. Does that mean it store the image in two places? Does that take up a lot of space? If it's stored in the tag, does that mean if my music library is transferred to some other system (i.e. Roon), the cover art would go with it?
Another question: You said "Make sure the images are stored against Tag first." How do I make sure they are indeed stored this way?
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