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Title: MP3 and album art corruption [solved]
Post by: castingflame on February 10, 2008, 08:43:38 am

For a while now I have experienced dropouts in my mp3's. Initially I thought that it was just bad mp3 at source but now I am not so sure. In the past week I have noticed corruped album art also. I hand made an album art cover for one compliation. Even that was corrupted in a few tracks but fine on many others. I am using a little 1 Terrabyte NAS box for storage as I have a lappy but I have not experienced any problems with the other files I store on it. I am just confused to what is causing it.

Title: Re: MP3 and album art corruption
Post by: Twit on February 11, 2008, 12:09:52 pm

I also noticed (a couple of weeks ago) that I suddenly had 136 tracks with no embedded 'Album Art' AND 'Lyrics' (I tried to do a library update with no success) . I am fussy with both options and know all of my tracks have them.

I fired up my trusty standby Mp3tag and sure enough I could see the art and lyrics. To solve my problem I loaded all the suspect tracks into MP3tag and selected all of them and clicked the save button, this caused mp3tag to write to all of them.

I then re-ran the MC update and it found 136 tracks with external changes and the art & lyrics were back.

My collection (including MC database) is on a Linux server.

I'm not sure why this happened but have noticed with the new build that i get a warning about the library update is running, when i want to close MC. ( Have never seen this in a previous build) Maybe in older versions this screwed up somewhere.

Title: Has anyone else had this problem?
Post by: castingflame on February 12, 2008, 01:28:48 pm

The problem is associated with "TagRunner". For some reason this is causing the drop-outs and album art corruption.
I used to use iArt but that only works with iTunes.

What do you all use to retrieve Artwork and Lyrics automatically ? ? ?

I have looked at "Data Master" but I would rather use something that uses standard sources like amazon, google etc to retrieve data as it will always have a better hit rate.

Title: Re: MP3 and album art corruption [solved]
Post by: KingSparta on February 13, 2008, 06:31:18 pm

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I have looked at "Data Master" but I would rather use something that uses standard sources like amazon, google etc to retrieve data as it will always have a better hit rate.

Depending What Field Your Looking For

The Lyrics Came From About 30 Lyrics Sites (Every Song Lyrics They had), And Many, Many Users.