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[zeltak]

hi guys!

can some one please tell mewhat exactly does the build missing thumbnails do? i cant seem to understand does it search for album covers in the internet or take the default one of the band etc?

thx alot

zeltak

[Matt]

When you look at a list in MC that shows little images, those are thumbnails.

They're built from the file and then stored for speed.

The first time you look at a file, the thumbnail will be built.  

Now you can build all the thumbnails at once so you don't wait when viewing a file for the first time.

This doesn't find or get new art -- just catalogs what you've already got.

[Chris Shaw]

You need to have your own cover art already in place. MC can get this from the internet with
Tools->Image->Get From Internet
However, MC needs to scale these down to thmbnail size and it does this while your browsing around. In addition, MC will take a frame from the first second of a video file and scale this down to be a thumbnail. It only needs to do this once, but doing it while you're browsing around can really slow things down. Build Missing Thumbnails just does all the scaling and video frame grabbing in one go so you can leave it to finish, then browse around much more quickly. It's most useful when building a new library or changing thumbnail size.

[JSmithson]

I just tried this on some MOV files.... It doesn't seem to work...

[MAPgeekdad]

does this function do anything to the files tags?

[risingdamp]

does this function do anything to the files tags?

No MC doesn't mess with your file tags without you telling it to.

[Matt]

When saving a tag, MC writes the tool and version.  This allows us to handle upgrades and fix problems easier.  It's 20 bytes well spent.