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[pmessing]

When cover art is saved "In a specified folder," the files in that folder (the individual cover art files) are named according to the following formula: <artist> - <album>. Is it possible to change this so that they are named just by album?

[Alex B]

The internally used rule is actually [Album Artist (auto)] - [Album] so that it can work correctly also with various artists albums.

I think plain [Album] would be insufficient. MC would overwrite the cover art image each time an identically named album already exists.

For example, my collection has 45 "Greatest Hits", 16 "The Best Of", 7 "The Ultimate Collection", 6 "Live", 5 "The Essential", 4 "Gold" albums and lots of other instances with two or three identical album names. For searching the duplicate album names I used the following rule in the search box:
 -[Album]=[] -[Artist]=[] [Track #]=1 [Disc #]=<2 ~dup=[Album] ~nodup=[Album Artist /(auto/)]
It returned 192 album duplicates in my library.

Oh, and to answer your question - no, it isn't currently possible to change the automatic naming rule. However, MC does not limit the used filename and/or the image file's location when you add a cover art link by hand.

[jack wallstreet]

I have just completed a major review of cover art and have seemingly found that when a album name is changed (for the music file), the cover art file name is NOT dynamically updated.  The link remains to the old (incorrect) coverart filename.

Enhancement suggestion: if either of the two fields used to determine the cover art filename is changed, a new coverart file should be created (not sure whether it is appropriate to always delete the old one - may not be able to can't guarantee it isn't in use somewhere).  I did this manually whenever I changed an artist or album name (usually a misspelling, etc.)