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[maid]

Hi, I keep my video covers in the same folder as the file. How do I stop MC from creating a jpg in the cover art folder??
also is this the best way to have the covers as over my network quick fine in file does not work.

Cheers

[audunth]

I keep all my covers in a dir called Cover Art.

However I have some problems. I download the covers using images.google.com and save them with the exact name of each movie. But when I choose Quick find in file/cover art directory it still doesn't find the cover art, so I must manually add each cover. Why not?

And why doesn't Get from Internet work with movies??

Yeah I know that I can get covers using the new Wikipedia feature, but I want the Blu-ray or HD-DVD cover, not just the film poster.

[Lasse_Lus]

I keep all my covers in a dir called Cover Art.

However I have some problems. I download the covers using images.google.com and save them with the exact name of each movie. But when I choose Quick find in file/cover art directory it still doesn't find the cover art, so I must manually add each cover. Why not?

"coverart syntax" for media type video is "Video - [MC database field:"[Name]"]"

[MrHaugen]

Have you checked the settings for where to place the images? You have the option of keeping them in a separate folder as well as next to the file, and in the files tags. It's under Tools, Option, File Location, Cover Art. Or simply search for Cover and select the second of three alternatives

There is another approach to this as well. If the settings mentioned above is good, you can copy the image link or the image it self to the clipboard and then right click the Image window and select copy from link or clipboard. The window I'm referring to is the Image window in the Action pane. You'll have to select the files you wish to update. 

[maid]

Can someone please tell me why my cover art keeps disappearing?

[syndromeofadown]

In the past i have had problems with cover art including:
1)Unknown images for media on disconnected drives
2)Star Trek and Americas Funniest Videos cover art was added when I imported folders without an existing folder.jpg
   Note that at no time has there ever been either of those movies on my computer.

Last year I changed the default settings in j river as listed below and everything has worked perfect since.

I name each cover art image “folder.jpg”
Each of my Music Albums has its own folder and each folder has cover art image named folder.jpg
Each Movie or TV season has its own folder and has cover art named folder.jpg

J river settings:
Under    Options/Tree & View/Thumbnails
Uncheck “Create thumbnails for videos”

Under Options/File Location/Cover Art
Set it to “In same folder as file (folder.jpg)” and
Uncheck “Also store image in the file's tag”

In Auto Import Options(formerly under Options/Libraries & Folders)
Uncheck “Build Thumbnails”
Uncheck “Get Cover Art”
*Note that you will have to do this for each folder set to auto import


When i change the folder.jpg j river automatically updates it
When i have a removed drive the cover art stays

Hopefully something here is helpful to you
Good luck

[maid]

If I am understanding this correctly, if I have 1000 movies they have to have a folder for each and one folder for the images.

[syndromeofadown]

To expand on what i explained above.
If you have 1000 movies, then each movie has its own folder.
In each of those folders there is an image named folder.jpg.
This image just sits beside your movie file.
One image per folder.
When i say it's named folder.jpg i actually mean "folder.jpg".
Don't name it after the actual folder name, just cut and paste what is in the quotes. "folder.jpg"

If your movies are already in individual folders then it should be easy to rename all your images.
Just do a search in windows for all of the jpg's then select them all to rename them all at the same time.

If you movies are not already in individual folders then my way may not be worth your trouble.
It works well for me because i tag my movies using the file name so i need separate folders anyways.

[maid]

Thank you so much for your help. I have implemented your other steps but I dont think i will create 10000 folders.

[MrHaugen]

Creating folders for each movie would be a good idea. There are several things in MC that depends on this. Even though it might be a huge job in the beginning. I think it should be possible to automate this as well.

[maid]

How can this be automated???

[Lasse_Lus]

do i miss something here...

MC can create both folders and create/move coverart -> folder.jpg

[Alex B]

I think it would be better to first find out why cover art is lost.

Maid, are you losing just the cached thumbnails or also the image file links that are stored in the library? Have you checked the Image File field values? Do they change? (See the screenshot below.)

When does this happen? What do you do when it happens? Are you using third party plugins that are involved in writing cover art links?

Cover art doesn't need to be named as folder.jpg or Video - [Name].jpg. MC needs a standard name only when a new link is added automatically. Manually added and old links can contain any image file names.

For instance, I added the non-standard links in the following screenshot about 5 years ago and they have been preserved in the library.

[Lasse_Lus]

Cover art doesn't need to be named as folder.jpg or Video - [Name].jpg.

thats true alex, as long as you don't want to be able to use the "quick find" in coverart directory

[maid]

I think after following syndromeofadown tips that it may be fixed. I do have a similar set up but I only have the jpg in the same folder as the file I do not keep an extra copy. How do I insert an image here? I was going to do a screen dump.

[maid]

All my cover art from my movie folder are now in my images also. Do I have to keep a duplicate copy?

How do I automatically create a folder for each movie?

[flac.rules]

All my cover art from my movie folder are now in my images also. Do I have to keep a duplicate copy?

How do I automatically create a folder for each movie?

Try Flash renamer, or a similar program, I am pretty sure some of them creates automatic folders based on file-names.

[rick.ca]

How do I automatically create a folder for each movie?

I don't know why you would need to, but you can do so with the Rename, Move and Copy Files tool. If you have covers or sidecar files "beside" the movie files, use a view that includes them so they are moved too.

[maid]

I was simply following the instructions on this ticket.

Do I not have to have the movies in separate folders then.

[MrHaugen]

You don't HAVE to move them, but I think it would simplify things later if you plan on using more video functionality. The Metadata plugin for Movie and Series tagging and art downloading depends on a directory structure with each item in it's own directory. Just to mention one. . If you don't see yourself using anything like this it will probably not be a big problem. But it should not be a huge task with the copy, move and replace tools though.

Just test it out with a very few files first.

- Select files (movies AND images etc. Need to make a view to show it all)
- Right click and select Tools, Rename, Move & Copy Files
- Mark Directories
- Select your base Movie folder. Example D:\Movies
- Set the rule as what the directories should be named by: [Name] ([Year])

I'm not totally sure what will happen to the images if you have any in the movie directory though. I've also not tried this method my self before, but I think it should work

[maid]

How do I put an img up here? then I can show what my directory looks like at the moment.

[MrHaugen]

You'll have to upload the image to pix01 (MC's web sharing tool - Share to Web), or similar tools. Then you have to that image with the Image or hyperlink tools.