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Bizarre artwork situation
blgentry:
--- Quote from: songsequencer on October 30, 2019, 02:39:08 pm ---In the example above where I included screenshots, here's the process:
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The process you outlined sounds correct to me.
--- Quote ---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."
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That question is asking if you want to use the image you specified, "in place" in the same directory where it is... or if you want it copied to the place where you told MC to put cover art images. You said Yes, so MC copied it to the place you specified for cover art images.
--- Quote ---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.
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It sounds like the process is working correctly. I saw your screen shot, so I know it was a weird shape before. But now it's fixed. Perhaps refreshing the view, or restarting MC fixed this. Hard for me to say. It's not all that normal to change cover art from relatively square to very long or vice versa. This might be a bug that the shape stays around until some kind of refresh. I'm just guessing.
The good news is that it is now working correctly.
--- Quote ---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!
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That location will not be used. Because on the line above, you have specified "in the same folder as the file". So it will copy your cover art into the folder with the music file that you are updating. You should be able to check that this is true: GO to the folder with the songs you just updated. You should see an image file there with the name of the album. It should be the image that you added earlier.
--- Quote ---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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This setting tells MC to *also* put the cover art inside your music files. For FLAC and other types that support it, this embeds the image inside the music file. So one file has both the music and the cover art. That way you can't lose the cover art. Because it's inside the music file!
In your setup, MC will do both things:
1. Copy your cover art to the folder with the music file.
2. Embed the cover art inside the music file if the file type supports it.
I think you're well covered here. Your setup is very similar to mine and mine works pretty much flawlessly from a cover art perspective. I approve. :)
Brian.
songsequencer:
Okay, at least for now changes are properly taking place. I still have the situation where hundreds of albums have incorrect album cover art, or rather, random images that are not album cover art at all. I found the hard disk location of these: They are in Library/Application Support/J River/Media Center 25/Albums/Cover Art. One group of these that all have the same image have a Created and Modified time beginning at 2:58 AM and ending at 3:34 AM...in other words, as you go down the list, the time gradually gets later.
KeithW posted the same problem: "Anyway, for this week's event, what I can see in the cover art folder is that the problem image exists as a jpg 263 times, each with a different, but correct, filename that reflects the album. What I can also tell is that the changes appear to have been made in alphabetical order (artist-album) - that is, when I sort the files by date/time last modified, the files appear in alphabetical order (as attached). When I sort the tracks in MY by date modified, the batch of tracks is in MC, the filenames also are in strict alphabetical order, starting from the drive name where each is stored.
There's also an apparent time lag - the changes in art work run from 12.47pm through 3.10pm; in MC the changes started at 3.11pm and ran through to 4.10pm."
(Found at https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?action=post;topic=122148.0;last_msg=850050)
I have attached an image of ONE of my incidents of this. This has happened multiple times with different random images. I hope MC 25 does not do this again because it's going to take a long time to repair all of these.
songsequencer:
Before doing anything in Media Center (but it was open), I had copied some cells from a spreadsheet and pasted them elsewhere in the spreadsheet. After I stopped working on the spreadsheet, I started browsing through Media Center. There was one of those albums with bogus artwork (images unrelated to music, as described in my original post in this thread). So, using right click, I chose “Remove Cover Art” first. Next, in Cover Art I chose “Get From Internet.” There were no internet cover art options for my album, so I clicked Cancel. Lo and behold, I had new album artwork — the cells I had previously copied on my spreadsheet!
One more detail: When I was in "Get from Internet," that spreadsheet-cell-copy was an image showing, but I didn't recognize it at the time; I was just thinking, "That image has nothing to do with the album." That shouldn't even be in there to begin with. But when I chose nothing and clicked Cancel, it should not be populating my album's cover art.
JimH:
Could you update to 25.0.128?
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,123652.0.html
songsequencer:
--- Quote from: JimH on January 07, 2020, 08:25:01 pm ---Could you update to 25.0.128?
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,123652.0.html
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I was on .114 -- I have just updated to .128.
Now stacks don't work in Genres. If I double click a stack in Artists, it will open as it should. In Genres, stacks won't open. I was trying to go into stacks to fix album artwork, but I can't get into them. When I hover over them, the images from the stack flash as normal, but double-clicking doesn't open the stack.
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