I am man enough to admit I was wrong about one thing... Album art does seem to be working. I am not sure what was wrong but it is working now.
About the tagging issue. Let me be exact about what I found.
1) I edit the tag info for: Artist, Song Name, Album, Genre and maybe year. ** The tags for these are all double-bye (unicode) Japanese except the date and Genre.
2) I think the information is updated in the tage information. I even select "update from library" in the tools.
3) I completely remove MC9 - due to system rebuild, os install, etc. - and re-install.
4) I search media on my drive and I see all my songs BUT none of the unicode information is readable!! All the names, etc are shown as "
"
5) I have to re-enter all that information.
This is why I don't understand why the information stored in the ID3 tag - not the library database file - is not secure and readable by WMP, MMJB, etc.
This should at least be readable by the exact same version of MC9, right?
I thought I should mention this because I never see any comments about unicode or Japanese characters.
Also, I am curious, does anyone at JRiver test the unicode by entering Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters?
This time, I am not complaining. Just pointing out some bugs.
I feel a little humbled by my mistake with Art File and Look ups.
P.S. MMJB does have a cool way to select the correct media.