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galahad1974

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Moving cover art question
« on: May 31, 2008, 01:18:46 am »

   Ive just changed my organazation method for video. Part of which was changing the cover art location setting from  "specified folder" to "in folder with the file" . so from here on all will be well, but how do i get media center to move all my art thats already on disc? probably simple, im just missing it. Thanks in advance!
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Alex B

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Re: Moving cover art question
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2008, 03:52:49 am »

In general, MC doesn't have tools for moving linked cover art (unless you import the cover art files and tag them separately, like I do).

Also, the automatic naming system is not very good for video files. For example, you cannot use [Artist] - [Album].jpg unless you have tagged the video files with those tags and folder.jpg is usable only if you have each video file that has unique cover art in a separate folder.

I prefer to link video cover art manually. I store the image file in the same folder with the video file and give it an appropriate and descriptive name. I link it by dragging the image file from Windows Explorer to the expanded image view in AW > Tag > Image (click the small thumbnail to expand the display). In this way only the filename gets stored in the "Image File" library field - not the complete path - and the link will always be correct if the linked image can be found in the video file's folder.
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galahad1974

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Re: Moving cover art question
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2008, 01:26:19 am »

So, if I copy the art to clipboard, then pate  from clipboard, it does exactly what i want. I have somewhere near 9000 videos to fix, any chance in the next release a simple command could be added to be able to highlight a list of files and perform this action? Or a script could be written? i know its a request for and by one user, but i guarantee many people could use it for just this situation, and if it could be applied to other commands, it would be unsefull all over the place.
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