I'm using Win8 RTM 64bit and the latest MC17.
I found that cover art isn't working for me Most of my files randomly lost their covers. In other programs (as windows explorer) is shown correctly. In MC some a stated to contain "no cover art" and some are "failed to load cover art from file".
How about some more details?
Was cover art previously working for you? Do you still have that system?
Do you have a backup of the files on your system from a time when cover art was working?
MC makes automatic library backups of the default library but not of other libraries. Did you have library backups of the library (database) you were using?
Were did you tell MC to place cover art when it located it? (in one of the right cover art menu choices)
When you set up MC 17 on the Win 8 RTM system, how did you get your music files into the database? Import the files again? Restore a library backup from your old system?
> I don't know what to do.
Don't panic. You need to understand how MC works and what you did to get to this point. Then you can take appropriate action.
> Rebuilding thumbnails doesn't work an even pasting them form internet doesn't work correctly
The problem may be that MC 17 under Win 8 RTM doesn't have entries in its database for the cover art.
> I checked if I have all rights to access the files and if they are write protected (they are not
)
That is one thing to check.
> ANY ideas about that?!
> At the moment it looks as if I lost the work of some years
Probably not unless you were really careless. However, the amount of work you'll have to do to get cover art working is uncertain.
Bill