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Bizarre artwork situation
songsequencer:
I just want to add here that others are having this problem. Here is a link to a post with a similar problem, and the original poster is not the only one having the issue.
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?action=post;topic=122148.0;last_msg=850050
songsequencer:
Today I tried to change the cover art of one of my hundreds of albums whose cover art got overwritten with random images. In this case, the random image had been a long vertical line. When I erased that image and replaced it with the album cover art, it kept the long shape of the line!! MC25 has lost its mind when it comes to cover art.
In my attachments, the first image shows three albums. The two on the left got attacked by the random line image. The one on the far left, I have chosen Remove Cover Art. In the second image, when I put in the correct cover art, instead of it being the proper square shape of an album cover, it kept the same shape of the random line image that overwrote hundreds of my files.
songsequencer:
--- Quote from: JimH on October 14, 2019, 02:07:01 am ---MC will use image files found in the same folder as the audio files. Is that the problem?
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I checked a number of albums with the random artwork. I went to the folders where the music is -- of all the ones I checked, there is no image there. The music files themselves do not have an image, either.
blgentry:
What is your procedure for adding or replacing Album Cover Art? Please tell us the menus or hot keys or drag and drop or whatever your exact procedure is.
I've been using MC since MC20 for Mac and have not experienced this problem. It's very unusual, which makes it hard to diagnose. It doesn't help that we have to type our responses to each other and we can't see what each other are doing.
Brian.
songsequencer:
--- Quote from: blgentry on October 29, 2019, 06:05:32 am ---What is your procedure for adding or replacing Album Cover Art? Please tell us the menus or hot keys or drag and drop or whatever your exact procedure is.
I've been using MC since MC20 for Mac and have not experienced this problem. It's very unusual, which makes it hard to diagnose. It doesn't help that we have to type our responses to each other and we can't see what each other are doing.
Brian.
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Thank you, Brian, for your interest in trying to help me diagnose this. In the example above where I included screenshots, here's the process:
1) In a main window where all the album covers are shown, I chose the album with the offending bogus artwork, right click on the image, and choose "Cover Art-->Remove cover art."
2) I got the pop-up, "Do you also want to permanently delete the cover art files from your hard disk?" I'm not completely sure what this means -- I assume they don't mean *anywhere* on my hard disk, but rather wherever this particular file is stored? At any rate, this is a bogus image, so I chose "Yes."
3) At this point, the blue music note indicating that there is no artwork showed up. However, it had a two-tone color behind it, and the shape was still long.
4) Next, I right-clicked on the image again, and this time chose "Cover Art-->Add From File." I chose the image from a place on my computer where I collect album cover images before adding them to iTunes or MC when they don't show up automatically.
5) I got the pop-up, "Would you like to copy this image to the cover art location you have specified in options?" Not completely sure what this means, but I don't want to do anything different from my normal setup, so I chose "Yes."
These are the steps I took, yet I got the result shown in the second image above, where the image background was long rather than the shape of the image.
Today, in order to document the steps, I did this with another item that had the bogus random line for album artwork. This time, the replaced artwork had a normal background size. So I went back and checked the one I changed that was shown in the image in the previous post. Today the shape was normal -- square.
In Options, here are my settings regarding Cover Art:
Audio mode: In the same folder as the file -- it has a down arrow.
Next line: ... /Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/J River/Media Center 25/Cover Art/ <-- This is NOT where I want cover art! I want it stored with the albums!
Next line: ...Clean cover art folder
Next line: The box is checked that says "Also store image in the file's tag." (I'm not completely sure what this means, but I think it means the image stays with the music file. JRiver uses a lot of terminology that I'm not accustomed to and I often don't know what they're talking about.)
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