I have just spent a frustrating few hours rebuilding my HTPC after changing the motherboard. It failed a few weeks ago and I was hoping that I could just slot a replacement in and just reboot, but alas no...
My original motherboard was a H67, which my supplier tells me is now end-of-life and not restocking (another supplier claimed to have sent one, but it never arrived), so I bit the bullet and got a z68 instead. Unfortunately any attempt to boot led to a BSOD.
So I was forced to do something that I've been intending to do for a while, which is a clean install.
So, several hours later (Why do windows updates take soooo long?!) I duly reinstalled jriver and reinstated the library (yes-all backed up!). Unfortunately, although all the metadata tags were present, the coverart was missing for about 40% of the music albums and 100% of the movies. I was dreading having to get the coverart individually for them again, especially since some I had to scan the covers as I couldn't find them online.
Anyway, I found them all in my backed up Users/Me/Appdata/roaming/etc folder under a combination of Media Center 15/coverart, Media Center 16/coverart, and Media Center 17/coverart. I copied the appdata folders from my backup into my new install, and all is well with the world again (it was missing a couple, but not the hundreds as before). I had to do a 'rebuild thumbnails' too to get them to show up.
Surely there must be a better way? I *almost* deleted the MC15&16 installations (including the appdata folders) a few weeks before I backed up, and I'm jolly glad I didn't!
Is there a global way of moving the appdata coverart to folder.jpg or amalgamate them all into one folder (that I have no chance of deleting!).
It took me a while to figure out where the art was and how to get it back, but nowhere near as long as it would have taken to manually search google for the images or rescan the CDs (dumped in the loft).
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