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tomrusse

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Retry for help: No Cover Art
« on: October 11, 2002, 09:00:07 am »

Let me try again.

I installed MJ on my server and all worked quite well.  I could rip CDs to MP3 and would get cover art as I should.

Now I am unable to receive cover art for any CD I have and I'm at a loss as to what might have changed.  I've installed MJ on 3 different systems with the exact same results.  I have also completely de-installed MJ, including libraries, re-installed with the latest version and ripped the exact same CD I had success with in the past with the same results...no cover art.

When I do a "GET" from internet, a dialog box pops up saying "sownloading images" with "Getting cover art for..." the album name.  After a few minutes the dialog box goes away with no image in the Image...Media File Properties dialog box with the text "Location: no image(s)".

Can someone please give me a few ideas to try or suggest why what once worked fince now fails on 3 different systems?

Tom
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Re: Retry for help: No Cover Art
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2002, 10:51:40 am »

Sorry Tom, but that get cover art thing isn't an exact science.

I can say that version 9 works better than 8, but it's probably too early to use 9, unless you're really brave.
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Re: Retry for help: No Cover Art
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2002, 10:59:31 am »

Thanks for the reply.  It's definitely a mystery as it worked so well once.  My target system is a dedicated HTPC.  I'll just re-image it for fun and see if that "resets" the broken bits.  Stranger things have happened.

Tom
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Re: Retry for help: No Cover Art
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2002, 11:26:47 am »

You could always backup your library, install 9, get the cover art, uninstall, and put 8 back.  You might even find that 9 is good enough already.

And thanks for being so cool about it.
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Re: Retry for help: No Cover Art
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2002, 02:42:22 pm »

Great idea!  I tried it and it worked fine.  Go figure.

Issues like these are a small price to pay for the flexibility you've put into this product.  The flexibility of the program with extensive personal customization options (I'm a big fan of lossless compression via Monkey Audio) makes this program far superior to MusicMatch.

Thanks for all the help.
Tom
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Re: Retry for help: No Cover Art
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2002, 08:18:33 pm »

Glad it worked out.

I'm a big fan of lossless compression via Monkey Audio

Hehe -- me too.  Stupid name though, huh?
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Re: Retry for help: No Cover Art
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2002, 08:00:24 pm »

I can see how it could be difficult to get the cover art working well.  Lets say I wanted to go get jpegs myself from amazon.com or something, is it possible so that MJ would see it?
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Re: Retry for help: No Cover Art
« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2002, 03:52:52 am »

well there are problems with MJ9 and cover art.

one of them i found last week but i did not report was.

Use Loose find, this will find the wrong coverart (not on all i would hope). then do a normal search for cover art and use always replace.

MJ will not overwrite the old cover art in the mp3 file with the new one.
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Re: Retry for help: No Cover Art
« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2002, 02:00:14 pm »

I am in the same boat as you. Cover Art over the Internet used to work fine but stopped working completely around a week ago.
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Re: Retry for help: No Cover Art
« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2002, 08:10:09 am »

I just tried to get cover art too off the internet for the first time on latest MJ 8 build while connected. It says it is retreiving but I get nothing...  

It is a mystery to me where and how MJ is supposed to pull cover art from.. and can these settings be changed?

If someone could post a definitive explanation that would be helpful..
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Re: Retry for help: No Cover Art
« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2002, 08:14:02 am »

Make sure you have a current version.  Not all albums will be found.  You can find art anywhere on the Internet, right click and copy the image, then paste into MJ.
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Re: Retry for help: No Cover Art
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2002, 08:24:24 am »

If MJ doesn't find cover art, I simply use the "Find Artist" feature and grab the cover art from AMG.  Works fine.  Having said that, MJ 9 is MUCH BETTER than 8 in finding cover art.

Tom
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