Hi all:
In the process of making sure all my tracks are associated with cover art, I came across this little issue and hopefully some kind person will 'splain.
I store all my art within the file tags (whereever possible) and I have verified that 100% of my tracks do indeed have art stored *inside*. Now, when I import into MC 9.1, I noticed that sometimes it picks up FOLDER.JPG as the cover art and this is stored as the image location in MC's library and at other times the library image filed states it is *inside file*. I also tried using the library tools to force a library update from tags but this also didn't work.
As a test, I totally *cleaned* the MC library and imported again. This time all the test tracks imported have their image library field filled as *inside file* as it should.
My bottom line question is: "What is the sequence MC uses to find the cover art and how does it determine when to utilitze "folder.jpg?" And how can one *force* an update to the image field? Oh, btw, the Media Center cover art folder is totally *empty* and the folder.jpg image is used by Win Xp for folder thumbnails in windows explorer.
Since I will be importing a *huge* library once I have all my tags consistent, I want to make sure MC uses the internal image if it exists. After this huge tag clean-up, I really don't to clean up MC since there is no way to manually change the image field. Another reason is that the windoes folder image *may not* have anything to do with the album at hand.
Many thanks and Cheers,
dennis