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jliddil

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Album Art Sync issue
« on: September 17, 2008, 08:05:22 pm »
The album art on my hard drive is fine.  I look on my 160 g Classic and at the album level the art is fine.  But for individual songs the album art is all mixed up. How can I correct this? I tried resyncing.
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JimH

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Re: Album Art Sync issue
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2008, 08:09:58 pm »
Is your version of MJ current?
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jliddil

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Re: Album Art Sync issue
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2008, 08:12:59 pm »
Yes 12.0.48
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Re: Album Art Sync issue
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2008, 08:32:16 pm »
I'm not sure.  There was a cover art bug with one of the iPods a few months ago.  It was an iPod bug.

Another way cover art can get confused is if there is a single folder.jpg file in a directory with many audio tracks.  MC will use it.
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jliddil

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Re: Album Art Sync issue
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2008, 08:35:47 pm »
Yes so all my music has a single jpg per album. For example 12 m4a files and one jpg file
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jliddil

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Re: Album Art Sync issue
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2008, 05:08:37 pm »
So is there a way to fix this issue besides blowing away all my music and resyncing?
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JimH

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Re: Album Art Sync issue
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2008, 06:10:41 pm »
I'm sorry, but I don't know.

With other formats of music, MC could store the cover art in the tags of the files.  With m4a, I don't think that's possible.

You could test conversion of a few files to MP3 when you sync.  If you're using DirectShow to play m4a, that might work.
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jliddil

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Re: Album Art Sync issue
« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2008, 08:12:26 pm »
Actually m4a can store the tags. I am now fixing things in itunes. But using dbpoweramp I can view/edit m4a tags and for those I have fixed the cover art is in the tag. MJ farkled tha tags it appears
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Re: Album Art Sync issue
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2008, 08:55:37 pm »
I don't think MJ or MC can write a tag in an m4a file.  We play those files with Quicktime.
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