Hi,
I've had video cover art issues for a while, ever since MC switched to forcing the cover art path to be next to the file. This has led to a variety of issues that I haven't seen many users post about, so I'm thinking that maybe there's a solution that just hasn't hit me yet that might be obvious.
Root of the problem:- My ripped blu-rays are stored on external drives (Synology NAS and Seagate USBs)
- Video cover art is stored next to the files instead of on my internal SSD
- External drives can take 10-20 seconds before fully spinning up
- Drives don't spin up until MC needs access to them such as in Theater View
Result of the problem:- Browsing in and out of views can hang
- Cover art often shows a low res cached version
- Info Panel shows the same cover when moving the cursor to other movies.
Once the drives spin up, all problems go away. I have partially solved this problem by, A) forcing the drives to spin up with a bat file when waking the computer, but that doesn't always work and they usually go to sleep again after a period of time and B) exporting all my movies as a playlist, editing the playlist in a text editor and changing the cover art location to a folder on my SSD, then reimporting the playlist, and moving all the cover art to that folder. This works well, except that every time I rip a new Blu-Ray, that file's cover art is on the external drive and the problems start to occur again. I've thought about somehow scripting this latter solution, but it seems like there has to be a better solution.
Solutions?- Has anyone else experienced this issue? How did you solve it?
- Are there settings in MC or Windows that could be part of the problem?
- Do I need to get better drives and/or a better server hardware solution?
- Should I have my NAS drives running 24/7 and get rid of the seagate USBs?
Thanks!