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[jgreen]

Through carelessness, etc, I have three different cover art directories, all of which hold some portion of current cover art.  I want to move all the links to one directory.  I've copied all cover art into each directory, now how do I change the links on a wholesale basis, so I'm not going through 15,000 tracks moving cover art?

[gbdesai]

I think in the options you set the new cover art directory that you want to use from now on, then select all files and right-click, pick Library Tools and do a quick find in Cover Art Directory.  That should find all the cover art and change the appropriate tags.

[marko]

It was a while back, so my memory is a little fuzzy, but I'm sure I ran into a problem whereby, after moving a shedload of album art to a new home, thus breaking MC's database links, instead of MC proclaiming "no coverart", it displayed the file address of the missing image instead. Doing a "quick find in coverart directory" didn't work on files where MC believed it had art when in fact, it didn't. I had to search on [image file]=<insert path here common to the old address, but not the new one>
In my case it was easy because I'd changed drives, so the root entry was all i needed. [image file]=c:\

Once you have that list, select them all, right click and remove coverart. Even though I knew they wern't there, I chose not to delete from the harddrive, it seemed a redundant question to ask in this case, so, being forced to answer, I erred on the side of caution!!

Now, the quickfind option should work.
I may have that totally wrong mind you, best to test on one file and see what happens first.

edit:
It just occurred to me this might have been a problem caused by the fact that when MC saves coverart, it names the files as [artist] - [album].jpg, but if you subsequently edit the album name, MC maintains the coverart link, but does not update its filename, which in this scenario, means that the quickfind option won't work for those albums, because the files won't have the correct name. quickfind should work for you, the [image file] search help to identify any rogue albums.

[Alex B]

I think Marko's advice is good. That should work for most of the images. I guess some multi-CD and/or various artists albums might be a problem, but you'll see what happens.

I changed to the "next to file" system a couple of years ago because I started collecting additional album images too (back, booklet spreads, CD itself etc). It's better to have them all in the same folder. When the track images are located "next to file" MC doesn't use paths, only filenames. I still have some images for loose tracks in a separate folder, but they are a small minority.

I have imported the images so it is easy to move them with other files. Because the Image File field contains only filenames it is always correct for any folder.

[skylarplane]

I'm always have a problem with cover art attaching itself to song that do not match the album.  I have no idea how it gets there but its a pain to remove cover art and reapply the correct one.

MC should give us an exact name for album to match the cover at so you can resynch it automatically, then that should
elminate the problem particularly if you have to reload your software.

Skylar  ?

[KingSparta]

MC should give us an exact name for album to match the cover at so you can resynch it automatically, then that should
elminate the problem particularly if you have to reload your software.

it does if you don't change the [name] and [artist].

you can fix this by simply including the art inside the mp3 or other media file if the tag supports it.

this is a problem with external art and MC and it has been there for years.

when the tags are changed to the file name mc should just update this info and rename the attached art.

nothing is perfict but i don't think this would be a major fix

[jgreen]

Well, I agree with Sparta.  It's only cover art, but you can't move it very well.

Nothing worked until I broke the links with the old locations, and then about half of it moved correctly, as predicted.  Interestingly, multiple passes got more files, as if MC needs to be told "no, really, go ahead and move it".  For an other 25% I used the cover art finder (internet) which I think works great for an automatic thing.  Now I'm just going to Allmusic and getting the rest.

While I'm doing this I'm thinking about the alpha version and that slide show thing, versus the cover art finder.  It's not a bad idea, as long as you can turn it off.    I think the cover art finder needs to loosen up a bit, and be configurable to find artist only where it can't find the right album cover.  Clearly the slide show is plenty loose, maybe we ought to tighten that up a bit.