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[jrj]

Why is that that Media Center hardly ever can find the cover art for my CDs-and sometimes can't even list what's on the tracks. When I put the disks into Windows Media Player, it lists the tracks and finds the cover art with no problems. Am I doing something wrong?

[KingSparta]

You Can Use My Free Media Center Plug-In "Cover Art Finder 3" If You Wish.

www.spartasoftware.com

[jrj]

I tried it. It apparently uploaded all of the cover art that I had, but didn't provide anything new.

There must be some reason why Windows Media Player can find the data and J River Media Center can't. Can't someone tell me how to fix this. Having to manually enter all of the data and scan the cover is not fun. And it seems it shouldn't be necessary since the data is obviously available somewhere on the internet.

[KingSparta]

how do you have your names?

are all fields entered?

what artists and albums do you have that MC does not find?

(provide this information exactly how it is typed in MC)

Sometimes when you turn off or uninstall your firewall it may work

if you use a firewall other than one built into Windows XP make sure that the windows firewall is turned off. i have seen when both firewalls are running one of them may not allow comunications in both directions.

[jrj]

I'll try the firewall, but it works with Windows Media Player for most of my CDs. Is there a way to get it with Media Player and transfer it to JRiver Media Center?

[Alex B]

WMP and MC use a different database. Obviously no one has uploaded info for the CDs you have. Are they rare?

Besides the online database MC can read CD info from the cdplayer.ini file (an old Windows standard for storing CD info). In this thread I explained how two other programs can be used for downloading info from other databases: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=29099.0. Unfortunately WMP itself does not write anything to the cplayer.ini file even the system is Microsoft's own standard. After getting the info to MC you could upload it before ripping the CDs. You may need it again someday and other users would appreciate that too.

Cover Art is a bit similar thing. In case MC does not find a cover image you can browse to a site that contains cover art files (like Amazon.com), right-click an image URL and copy the location (at Amazon it is the "large image" link). In MC you can paste the location. Select the album files and go to Action Window > File Properties > Image, right click the image display and select Paste From Clipboard (Image or URL). MC will download the image and associate it with the audio files. Check the Track Image Location settings in the program options first.