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Bizarre artwork situation
songsequencer:
--- Quote from: RoderickGI on October 01, 2019, 01:24:17 am ---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.
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Wow, that is really bad. It seems like MC should not have such behavior. But it makes sense that this is how it could have happened.
I didn't understand this part: "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." In the lower left corner, I see these three things: Check For Updates, Display, and Action Window. Are any of those where you're talking about that I should be looking for something? Or is it on the very bottom, like in the window frame? Right now I have an artist in the top half of the window, and in the bottom half is a list of all that artist's songs, and the frame says "34 files."
songsequencer:
--- Quote from: blgentry on October 01, 2019, 05:04:42 pm ---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.
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On albums by a particular artist, in the top frame of Standard View where the artist's albums were listed, I did Cover Art-> Quick Find, but nothing happened, except for the last one, though; when I did that, first, in the bottom pane where the songs are listed, the album artwork disappeared momentarily. Then I saw a notice that tags were being changed. Then the album cover reappeared. But I don't understand what just happened. (This one might be a special case -- see my post "Media Center refuses to import an album that previously didn't have permission" to see how what happened here is probably not related to my bizarre artwork situation -- what I'm describing here happened with that album.)
Next I tried this on a few of the albums where my work images were showing as the cover art. Nothing happened. Still work images for cover art.
RoderickGI:
--- Quote from: songsequencer on October 05, 2019, 01:38:52 am ---Wow, that is really bad. It seems like MC should not have such behavior. But it makes sense that this is how it could have happened.
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Actually, it's not that bad. I was misremembering the functionality. You actually have to select "Right-click > Cover Art > Paste From Clipboard (image or URL)" to make it happen. I think I was remembering a time that could happen, but was unintentional and has since been fixed. There were some issues with MC retaining selection of files that weren't visible in the past, and that has been fixed. It could still happen if a shortcut key had been set to Paste From Clipboard, but that isn't set up by default.
I was referring to the status information in the frame.
songsequencer:
Starting to attack the bizarre artwork situation, I began with the first item in my list...actually, this one had no artwork. I tried "Get album artwork from internet" but nothing happened. I forget what I did next to try to add the artwork -- I may have copied from another source and tried to paste it in. At any rate, I got that album artwork in there. Then I went to one of the hundreds that have random images. Actually, there were two in a row, and I worked on both of these. I right-clicked, did "Remove Cover Art." When it asked if I also wanted to remove the artwork from my hard disk, I said yes. A few seconds later, that first album cover art that I did (mentioned in the first sentence of this paragraph) appeared on both of the albums I just removed the cover art from! I keep choosing "Remove cover art," and the images will disappear for a few seconds, but then that same image keeps appearing on those albums! Before it appears on those albums again, I notice that it suddenly appears on my desktop, like a slow flash, and then it's back in its same stubborn spot in the albums where it shouldn't be.
JimH:
MC will use image files found in the same folder as the audio files. Is that the problem?
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