Since MC11 was new I have suggested that video cover art options should be separated from audio cover art options. For instance, folder.jpg in the album folder might be preferred for audio files, but it cannot be used with a TV series if it is stored in single folder and the user wants to link a separate cover art file with each episode. The video cover art naming issues have been discussed several times. I am too lazy to search for the old threads, but here are some of the old suggestions:
- Separate the audio and video cover art options.
- When the "Use screen grab for a thumbnail" command is issued make it use the selected video cover art naming option instead of storing the resulting image file to a hidden and cryptic folder path.
- Change the "Screen grab to file" tool to offer to automatically use the selected naming option instead of whatever it uses now (apperently C:\ and no default name...)
- It was suggested that the video cover art name rule could use the video file's filename or maybe a combination of the filename and some tags by default, but in my opinion it should be a user configurable string because, unlike audio tagging, video tagging doesn't have an established standard.
As you said the default name rule is now "Video - [Name].jpg". The "Video - " part is quite unnecessary and the value of the [Name] field is not necessarily unique.
The default string should be a bit more complex, like "[Date (filename friendly)] - [Filename (name)].jpg". Then it would be able to handle a situation in which the Name field contains identical values from file to another (like "Conan O'Brian" or so) and only the epsisode or track numbers differ. The included video file's filename extension would indicate a video cover art file. In any case there should be a dialog box in which a user defined rule could be typed.
Since MC can now link cover art with data files maybe there should also be a third section for them.