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[urlybird]

I am not sure how this happened but I now have 750+
MP3 files that are only 128 bytes long.

I suspect but cannot confirm that it happened when I did a "get cover art". The one thing these files have in common is that they where last modified Nov 24th at 12:16 -> 12:25 AM and have a image file set to unknown.jpg. I am not sure what version of MC 9 it was but going by the date stamp on the various MC files downloaded it would be MediaJukebox90082.exe

There are 375+ other files that were also modified during this time slot but they are okay. They all have legit cover art files - none are unknown.jpg.

They show in the MC database as 128 bytes and Windows Explorer as 1k.

Anyone else having this problem ?

[KingSparta]

I use it all the time, i however do not save coverart inside the mp3, i have it set to keep them as external cover art.

[urlybird]

I also save images external to the MP3.

Perhaps this is a problem with the convert process ?

[schwaa]

I have had this exact problem.  Happily I was able to recover them via Norton.  I do save the art externally as well.  I have also seen that in a group of files, only a few will be in essence deleted via wiping them into a 1k file.  Although in MJ they still show the original file size, though they of course do not play.

[schwaa]

Okay, so it just happenned again right now.  I Highlighted ten files (Jeff Beck, Truth), clicked on tools, get art from internet, standard, save externally, it found the art and I got the Information Box "Failed to update the following files:" and 8 of the 10 files are shown.  The artwork is showing on the right and the files sizes are still showing their original size.  But--those 8 files have been changed to 1k.  Again yay for Norton Unerase Wizard...

[urlybird]

So I'm not going crazy !!!

I haven't had a re-occurence but I haven't been trying to recreate. I am running 9.0.87 now. What version of MC 9 are you using  -  ::)help system info - copy to clipboard and paste.

Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.87 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows 2000  Workstation 5.0 Service Pack 3 (Build 2195)
AMD Athlon 1008 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 458 MB, Free - 206 MB

Internet Explorer: 5.00.3502.1000 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.00.3315.3727 / Shlwapi.dll: 5.00.3502.5332
Shell32.dll: 5.00.3502.5436 / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer

Ripping /   Drive Y:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: No /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive Y: YAMAHA CRW8424S   Addr: 3:5:0  Speed:8  MaxSpeed:8  Lib:2  GHS:1  Use MJ Engine:No
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Two second gap: No /  Write CD-Text: No
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[schwaa]

oops, forgot to add:

Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.87 -- C:\Program Files\Media Jukebox\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium III 730 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 391 MB, Free - 144 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer

Ripping /   Drive E:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: No /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive E: TDK CDRW121032   Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:12  MaxSpeed:12  Lib:2  GHS:1  Use MJ Engine:No
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Two second gap: No /  Write CD-Text: Yes
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[Matt]

We've never been able to reproduce this.

Any other clues / tips you might have would be very welcome.

Thanks for your help.

[KingSparta]

I just looked at my 15,000 currently loaded into MC and i have been geting coverart for (all are external) and i do not see any problems.

[urlybird]

I think my problem happened when MC 9 locked up getting the coverart and the coverart process was terminated by using cancel or the task manager.

[Wile E. One]

This reminds me of a problem I had with MJ 8 back in June (see thread here ). In that case, the problem seemed to be due to the ID3 tags. I don't know if that may be part of the problem here... but it might be something to look at.