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[PPatla]

I recently have had Album Artwork start to get corrupted upon viewing my collection.  This is of recently added CDs to my collection that I ripped with XLD

It's not happening to all albums, I evern re-ripped and checked that the folder.jpg image was valid in each folder as well.

Running the latest version of 28

-Pat

[Matt]

What if you right-click and tell MC to rebuild the thumbnails for those files?

[PPatla]

I rebuilt the thumbnails, that didn't fix it.

I went ahead, re-ripped again and tried different size album artworks 500x500 and opened those with other image programs to make sure the artworks themselves weren't corrupted.

Still seeing the same issue, weird.

[bob]

What build of MC?
Running on what hardware?
Where are the music files?

[PPatla]

After comparing the album art that I was having issues with and re-ripping to test the issue I was able to figure out that XLD for ripping CDs on the MAC has an option to scale artwork as it is embedded.

The scaling was corrupting the artwork for whatever reason.

I turned off scaling and re-ripped the CDs and they all are fine now.

I could never get the rebuild thumbnails to fix the issue.

I'm on version .77 right now.

I just wanted to close the loop here that is was the scaling issue on the artwork getting embedded.

-Pat

[JimH]

Thanks for letting us know.

[blgentry]

XLD is good at ripping.  But I don't use it for album art management.

I use MC for all album art management.  MC is very good at properly embedding album art of any size, and also optionally stores the art externally.  I like to have it written in the same folder as "album name.jpg".  Just a second place for that art to be.

The main reason I do this is, I'm a tiny bit picky about album art looking correct.  The stuff that is picked by doing a generic album lookup (with XLD or similar) is rarely what I want.  So I either use MC's album art lookup, or go to an external site like albumartexchange.com, which has fantastic quality art in many different sizes.

I recently had some ceramic drink coasters custom made with album covers printed on them (dye sublimation).  I used albumartexchange to find nice big high quality artwork for them.  They mostly came out great.  Super cool to have part of my album collection sitting on the table when socializing with friends. 

Brian.