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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 21 for Windows => Topic started by: 8139david on June 10, 2016, 10:28:41 am
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Many cover arts for Videos of my library are actually stored locally, in the appropriate Application Data\J River\Media Center 21\Cover Art folder.
However, if I clone my library (which I needed to do for some independent reason), MC doesn't see the cover arts anymore, for external drives that are not connected.
If I ask it to "Rebuild thumbnails", it has no effect.
Can I solve this problem without having to reconnect my external drives one by one?
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Actually, I just did a Cover art > Quick find in file/cover art directory. It did find covers that were there :)
The question becomes: why aren't all cover arts for movies stored in that folder.
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Cover Art handling in JRiver MC is sort of confusing. Here's the official wiki entry on it:
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Cover_Art#Cover_Art_Folder
What may *not* be obvious from the wiki entry is that cover art for Movies is always stored next to the movie file itself. So:
Conan The Destroyer.mkv
Conan The Destroyer.jpg
Both will appear in the same directory with the exact same file name, just with a different extension.
The Cover Art directory can optionally be used for Album covers. It is always used for TV Show Series and Season cover art. Like I said, I find it a little confusing.
Brian.
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Thanks for the explanations.
In fact, the Cover Art Folder ALSO contains the cover art for entries without files, obtained with MC Utils or pscriptor.pl :)
That's the case of many of my dvds and blurays (those that don't have an copy on a hard drive.)
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I noticed something similar after upgrading to w10 and reinstalling MC. I have loaded my existing library. Although the folder contains both the video and cover art file, for a handful of titles there is no cover art found until the title is selected. It's odd it's just a handful of titles.
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I notice that sometimes thumbnails disappear (in Video and in Audio).
What are the proper settings to ensure that this doesn't happen?
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At Tools>Options>File Location>Cover Art, be sure to check the box "Also Store Cover Art in file's tag".
Also, for "Audio Mode" I use "In the same folder as file", however, I wonder, if your files are on a NAS (or external drive) would you may be better off with "Audio Mode: In a specified Folder" where that folder is on the computer's internal drive.
I'm not sure about this last suggestion - it makes sense to me (but all my files are on internal drives) - perhaps someone with more knowledge of this will comment.