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[mimizone]

Can somebody explain to me why on some of my albums/tracks If I go to "Get from Internet" option to get covers, Some albums report not having a cover, when they actually have one that is already displayed too in the Album list?

There is clearly a difference between covers in the Library and covers somewhere else, that I don't understand.

Is there a fast way to reconcile all that, and trust what's in the album list for instance, copying everything in the Library?
Or a way to list all the files/albums that are missing a cover in the library?

The Smart Playlist "Audio - Missing Cover Art" doesn't return those albums.

Thanks.

[blgentry]

I think you are probably trying to audit your cover art and find missing art, etc.  If so, you might enjoy my Cover Art Review view.  I'm attaching it here.   Also I'm attaching a screen shot of the view so you can see what it does.

You need to put it in your saved views folder which is something like:

/Users/mimizone/Library/Application Support/J River/Media Center 28/Library/Saved Views/

Once the file is there, you can add a new view with:
View > Add View > Add Library View
Then select "Cover art review" from the ones that appear.

Hopefully this will help you find your missing art, and other tasks.  I used this a lot when I was first getting my collection sorted out.

Brian.

[mimizone]

Thanks!
I'll try it

[mimizone]

It doesn't seem to work somehow.

I created the "Save Views" folder.
put your file in it
restarted MediaCenter 28
added a view via View/Add View/Add Library View, picking the Cover Art Review.

then click on the Cover Art Review
It shows Albums covers as usual not the view in your screenshot.
Tried to select it again from the tab on top of the view itself. It doesn't do anything.

Is that compatible with the latest version of MC?

[mimizone]

not sure if it's gonna be of any help, here's what I see in the logs when switching views to the Cover Art Review

0924386: 4364076416: General: CMainUIWnd::SetMCView: Start
0924386: 4364076416: General: CMainUIWnd::SetMCView: View info name: Cover Art Review
0924387: 4364076416: General: CMainUIWnd::SetMCView: Hiding old view
0924387: 4364076416: General: CMainUIWnd::SetMCView: Creating new view
0924387: 4364076416: General: CMCViewContainerWnd::Create: Start
0924387: 4364076416: General: CMCViewContainerWnd::Create: Creating window
0924387: 4364076416: General: CMCViewContainerWnd::Create: Initializing
0924388: 4364076416: General: CViewHeaderWnd::Initialize: Start
0924389: 4364076416: General: CViewHeaderWnd::Initialize: Finish (0 ms)
0924389: 4364076416: General: CViewHeaderWnd::Initialize: Start
0924389: 4364076416: General: CViewHeaderWnd::Initialize: Finish (0 ms)
0924389: 4364076416: General: CMCViewContainerWnd::Create: Finish (2 ms)
0924393: 4364076416: General: CMainUIWnd::SetMCView: Loading view
0924393: 4364076416: General: CMJFileListCtrl::StartFileInsertion: Start
0924394: 4364076416: General: CMJFileListCtrl::StartFileInsertion: Finish (0 ms)
0924396: 4364076416: Database: CSearchFilesHelper::GetResults: Search: [Media Type]=[Audio]; Elapsed ms: 2.239
0924397: 4364076416: Database: CMediaFileIOLoad::Load: Loading: /Users/jeremy/Library/Application Support/J River/Media Center 28/Library/Cache/File List Sort/Cache (10).dat
0924398: 4364076416: General: CMJFileListCtrl::FinishFileInsertion: Start
0924445: 4364076416: Database: CMediaInfoArraySort::Sort: Files: 5545; Elapsed ms: 2.528
0924445: 4364076416: General: CMJFileListCtrl::SetItemCount: Start
0924447: 4364076416: Database: CSearchFilesHelper::GetResults: Search: [Media Type]=[Audio]; Elapsed ms: 1.722
0924449: 4364076416: General: CMJFileListCtrl::SetItemCount: Finish (3 ms)
0924454: 4364076416: General: CMJFileListCtrl::FinishFileInsertion: Finish (56 ms)
0924454: 4364076416: General: CMainUIWnd::SetMCView: Finishing view creation
0924454: 4364076416: General: CMainUIWnd::SetMCView: View creation time: 67.773
0924454: 4364076416: General: CMainUIWnd::Resize: Start
0924455: 4364076416: General: CMainUIWnd::Resize: Finish (0 ms)
0924455: 4364076416: General: CMainUIWnd::SetMCView: View show / update time: 1.262
0924455: 4364076416: General: CMainUIWnd::SetMCView: Finish (69 ms)
0925040: 4364076416: General: CMJFileListCtrl::OnDestroy: Start
0925049: 4364076416: General: CMJFileListCtrl::OnDestroy: Finish (9 ms)
0925049: 4364076416: General: CMJFileListCtrl::OnDestroy: Start
0925051: 4364076416: Database: CMediaDatabase::RemoveFileAbsolute: Filename:  Mode: 0  Track: 0
0925053: 4364076416: General: CMJFileListCtrl::OnDestroy: Finish (3 ms)
0931877: 4364076416: General: CRegistrationHelper::InitializeBuyButton: Init produced error 6

[blgentry]

It doesn't seem to work somehow.
[...]
then click on the Cover Art Review
It shows Albums covers as usual not the view in your screenshot.
Tried to select it again from the tab on top of the view itself. It doesn't do anything.

Is that compatible with the latest version of MC?

I just tried the process, creating a new view in my Audio tree and... It does exactly the same as you described.  All I get is an albums view.  Weird.  But I figured out another procedure which works.  Try this:

1.  Put the Cover art review.jvi file somewhere easy to find.  Like on the Desktop or in your Downloads folder or something.
2.  Go to the view you just created that doesn't work like you want it to.  Right click on it and choose Customize View.
3.  Now in the settings area (center panel) scroll all the way down to Advanced and open it up.  You'll see "Load a view from a file".
4.  Click that and it will open a file dialog.  Go find the JVI file you saved in step 1.  Click it and it will load up and the view will become the correct one that I intended.

I hope this procedure works for you.

Brian.

[HaWi]

I just tried the process, creating a new view in my Audio tree and... I does exactly the same as you described.  All I get is an albums view.  Weird.  But I figured out another procedure which works.  Try this:

1.  Put the Cover art review.jvi file somewhere easy to find.  Like on the Desktop or in your Downloads folder or something.
2.  Go to the view you just created that doesn't work like you want it to.  Right click on it and choose Customize View.
3.  Now in the settings area (center panel) scroll all the way down to Advanced and open it up.  You'll see "Load a view from a file".
4.  Click that and it will open a file dialog.  Go find the JVI file you saved in step 1.  Click it and it will load up and the view will become the correct one that I intended.

I hope this procedure works for you.

Brian.

Thank you Brian,
This worked for me.

[mimizone]

thanks that installation process works indeed.

[blgentry]

I'm glad to hear that you were both able to get the view working.  More importantly, I hope it's useful for auditing your cover art.  You can modify it as you like.  You'll see that I have a selection for "less than 480x480".  I did that because I wanted all my art at least that big.  If your criteria are different, you can modify that selection, or add selection of your own.

Brian.

[mimizone]

Thanks.

I played around and customized it to my liking.
I am not that familiar with custom views, so it's great to use yours as an good example to build upon.

[HaWi]

I'm glad to hear that you were both able to get the view working.  More importantly, I hope it's useful for auditing your cover art.  You can modify it as you like.  You'll see that I have a selection for "less than 480x480".  I did that because I wanted all my art at least that big.  If your criteria are different, you can modify that selection, or add selection of your own.

Brian.

Yes, thank you Brian. This is extremely useful and I would not have been able to make this View even if I had thought of it. I have already updated the files that didn't have embedded cover art (even though I thought they did).
Thank you so much again
Hans

[HaWi]

I noticed that when I change the cover art of an entire album that the image width/height only changes for the the first track and the remaining tracks have no entry. However, when I play a track then the image width/height changes to the correct value. That's not a big issue but I have a lot of albums to change and they still show up as <480x480 since track 2 to end still show no entry in those fields. So that makes me scroll through everything again.
Is there a way to have all the tracks change when their album art has been updated?
Many thanks
Hans
EDIT - One more thing, how does one change the "Approved" field? I don't seem to be able to change anything there
EDIT2 - Figured out the first part. Thumbnails have to be rebuilt to change the image width/height field

[blgentry]

On my system, I see something similar when I change art:  After I save it, it doesn't appear changed in the view.  However, if you press the refresh button that looks like a circle with an arrow on it, the view refreshes, and the changes appear in the view. 

Regarding the "image approved" field:  I put that in the view because I wanted to be able to say "hey I know this cover art is too small, but I want to hide it even when showing art that is less than 480x480 because I can't find anything bigger."

To use it, you need a field in the MC database called "Image Approved".  To create it, do something like this:

Tools > Options > Library & Folders > Manage Library fields > Add new field
Give it the right name (Image Approved).  Then go find that field and change these properties:
Data: User Data:
    Data Type:  Integer
    Edit Type:  Check

That should do it.

Good luck!

Brian.

[HaWi]

On my system, I see something similar when I change art:  After I save it, it doesn't appear changed in the view.  However, if you press the refresh button that looks like a circle with an arrow on it, the view refreshes, and the changes appear in the view. 

Regarding the "image approved" field:  I put that in the view because I wanted to be able to say "hey I know this cover art is too small, but I want to hide it even when showing art that is less than 480x480 because I can't find anything bigger."

To use it, you need a field in the MC database called "Image Approved".  To create it, do something like this:

Tools > Options > Library & Folders > Manage Library fields > Add new field
Give it the right name (Image Approved).  Then go find that field and change these properties:
Data: User Data:
    Data Type:  Integer
    Edit Type:  Check

That should do it.

Good luck!

Brian.

Thank you Brian,
I suspected that when I didn't find the Field in the database. Thanks for letting us know.
Hans

[blgentry]

This technique of making a new Library field to store a flag type value (on or off) is something I do somewhat frequently.

For example, I have a fairly sophisticated Duplicate Finder view.  In this view I have a "not duplicate" column that I can use to mark songs that are not really duplicates.  That way I can hide all of those if I want to, so I don't keep seeing the same false positives in my searches for duplicates.

It's a very useful technique.  Check box fields make it really convenient to use also.

Brian.

[HaWi]

This technique of making a new Library field to store a flag type value (on or off) is something I do somewhat frequently.

For example, I have a fairly sophisticated Duplicate Finder view.  In this view I have a "not duplicate" column that I can use to mark songs that are not really duplicates.  That way I can hide all of those if I want to, so I don't keep seeing the same false positives in my searches for duplicates.

It's a very useful technique.  Check box fields make it really convenient to use also.

Brian.

It is indeed extremely useful. I have been trying to do similar things with Playlists but Views are clearly a better way.
Thank you so much
Hans