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[sapnho]

I have been struggling with an annoying bug for some time now: the cover art is not always displayed. Sometimes it is, sometimes it is not. I use APE files with embedded images of 20-100k in size. It seems to occur mostly with longer titles (almost all the classic stuff) and titles that are saved on a second HDD (as opposed to the one where the os is on).  It also seems to happen more often when the drive is heavily fragmented.

As APE files are rather big and apparently the tagging information is at the end of the file, could it be that MC doesn't take enough time to read the cover art information correctly? But then again, all the track information is displayed properly just the image is often missing.

This has been a very annoying bug for some time now and it would be great to see it fixed.

>>>>
Media Center Registered 10.0.122 -- C:\Program Files\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Centaur Unknown 857 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 245 MB, Free - 103 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1400 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0001) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0001)

Ripping /   No CD drives found.
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: No /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: No /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: No /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  No burners found.
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[Matt]

Where isn't the art displayed?

Can you reproduce it somehow?

[sapnho]

It seems to happen more often (although not really reproducable)
- on larger files
- when the file is on a separate disk (i.e. I have two 250GB disks in my system. Files on the disk which also contains the windows partition seem to be displayed more often)

I am struggling to find a common criteria of files that do not display the cover art, especially because sometimes it is in fact displayed.

When I switch to thumbnail view to view all the albums, all the covers are displayed.

[sapnho]

Matt, since you have 3GHz system, the error is probably not reproducable. I am almost sure that it has something to do with the speed of the system. But why does it read title information and not the cover art?

[KingSparta]

maybe you should upgrade your program, there was a fix in this area a few weeks ago.

it may help, it had to do with images that had the wrong extender on them AKA (GIF\JPG)

[sapnho]

Well I'll try that but since the cover art is embedded in the APE file, could it possibly make a difference? ?

[KingSparta]

sapnho

in that case, you may need to change all of them to external, update, then turn internal back on.

this way it will have a chance to see the file correctly with the new build.

not saying this will work but it may.

[sapnho]

Just upgraded to the latest build but the problem is still there. I can't believe that I am the only one to have this problem..

Is it correct that the cover information it at the end of APE files?

Is there anybody out there?

[KingSparta]

did you do like i said?

to change the system to external, update tags

see if it works as external since it should then point to a file.

then turn on internal, update tags

see if it works as internal.

i did not see any comments where you tryed that.

if that does not work, maybe matt would take a look at the file and see what he can do to fix it.

[sapnho]

King-I am blond so you have to explain things slowly to me...

If I set the system to external, don't I run the risk of losing all the cover art inside the file?

The issue is also that sometimes MC will display the cover and sometimes not. That is with the same file!

Thanks for helping to solve a difficult one...

[KingSparta]

The issue is also that sometimes MC will display the cover and sometimes not. That is with the same file!

Really!

Then thats a new one.

[sapnho]

Hey, let's not let this one slip into oblivion!

Apparently it is not a question of system speed because another guy on the NetRemote forum with a fast system and hdd had the same issue. He fixed it by storing the cover art outside of the music file.

That probably means then that the cover reading of embedded files may have a bug!

[jleerigby]

Apparently it is not a question of system speed because another guy on the NetRemote forum with a fast system and hdd had the same issue. He fixed it by storing the cover art outside of the music file.

My set up is a little different though as the files are MP3 not APE and they are stored on a Network drive.

I recommend that you do what King & me suggested and see if the problems still occur when the image is stored outside the file.  You will not lose the images as they will be stored in MC's cover art directory.  Try a few albums as a test.  I am confident that you will not get this problem if you store your images as folder.jpg in the album folder.