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Title: Should rename of Artist or Album also rename the Covert Art?
Post by: Magic_Randy on July 24, 2006, 10:30:30 pm

I just finished relinking all of my cover art, including them in the MP3 tags using the following procedure:

1. select the files > right-click > Image > Remove Cover Art
(Answer no when MC asks a permission to delete the image files from the disk.)

2. select the files > right-click > Image > Quick Find In File / Cover Art Directory


After I did this I found a lot of missing Cover Art that I knew I had.  Upon investigation I found they were there, but I had changed either the artist or album name in MC and the Cover Art files themselves were not renamed accordingly.  Of course the Quick Find could not find the files in this situation.

My question is - Is this the way it is supposed to work or is this a bug?

Thanks,

Randy

Title: Re: Should rename of Artist or Album also rename the Covert Art?
Post by: Matt on July 24, 2006, 10:38:22 pm

If you use internal cover art, this complication can be avoided.

Title: Re: Should rename of Artist or Album also rename the Covert Art?
Post by: Magic_Randy on July 24, 2006, 11:02:52 pm

Matt,

I assume you mean when the option is set to 'store images in tags also', which will put the image in the MP3 file.

If that is the case, that is what I do, however, some of my cover art was added when the option was turned off.  To clean it up I relinked everything from scratch.

I'm not sure for the specific problems I found if the option was turned on or off.  Does MC ever rename the cover art image file?  If not I can keep everything clean as I make changes.

Randy

Title: Re: Should rename of Artist or Album also rename the Covert Art?
Post by: NickM on July 24, 2006, 11:57:56 pm

It depends which view you rename from...
Read this thread.  http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=33953.0
nick

Title: Re: Should rename of Artist or Album also rename the Covert Art?
Post by: Magic_Randy on July 25, 2006, 12:26:24 am

Thanks....

Randy

Title: Re: Should rename of Artist or Album also rename the Covert Art?
Post by: marko on July 25, 2006, 02:00:35 am

that it's a problem with the central, external folder method of storing coverart is not up for argument surely adds validity to the request for the return of the 'remove unused coverart' tool?