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[davisford]

Hi, I've read the past posts, and played with the various cover art options.

As I understand it, there are 3 options for dealing with cover art in MC:

• Copy the image as binary file (e.g. jpg) into folder as file.jpg
• Copy the image as binary file (e.g. jpg) into folder as Artist-Album.jpg
• Embed the binary file into each binary audio file (e.g. mp3)

I understand these are not mutually exclusive.  For example, one can choose to embed the image into an mp3 and also copy the file into the dir as file.jpg.

I had ticked the box to embed the image into the music file for a number of months now.  Now, I've changed my mind.  This copies the image into every single audio binary, greatly increasing the amount of disk space.  When one has ~50k files, this adds up.  Also tagging images via Cover Art -> Paste Image from Clipboard is horribly slow when this method is used.

So, now I am removing all cover-art from my complete collection, and I want to start from scratch and use the option:

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Tools -> Options -> File Location -> Cover Art -> In the same folder as the file (as [Artist] - [Album].jpg)
Here is my conundrum.  I've found that if I do Library Tools -> Rename Files from Properties, MC does not also copy the [Artist] - [Album].jpg into the new folder.

For example, if the date is incorrect on some album, and I fix it with the tag feature, then re-name files from properties, the .jpg file I had previously tagged the files with doesn't get moved into the new folder hierarchy.

The cover art still actually works in MC -- somehow it still references the jpg in the old folder, but I wish it was smart enough to copy this file along with the audio binaries.

Is there a way around this -- or can I request this as a feature?

[Alex B]

... Is there a way around this -- or can I request this as a feature?

Yes, you can. It has been requested before.

I have posted a workaround in the following link:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=32323.msg221984#msg221984

This post has many links to cover art related threads and my replies:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=34263.msg233801#msg233801

[Osho]

I have followed Alex B's suggestion of importing the cover art in the library and tagging it appropriately and then renaming both the music and image files from tags. It works. But, it is horribly manual labor intensive. Particularly when I have 100s of albums whose cover art is not already imported.

I really wish that there was a notion of "meta-data" for each of the albums in MC12. One can assign various different kind of files (cover art files, information about artist in .txt or .html files, lyrics in .txt files etc.) as meta-data for different albums. The items assigned as meta-data gets the same tags (like genre, album, album artist etc.) from the album directly and is moved around when one copies/moves the library files (copied to portable hard drives, moved to other folder for organization etc.). This would be very useful in many cases:

• Multile cover art files (front, back, insider liner notes etc.)
• Lyrics in some file format in the same folder
• Information about Director, Actor, Awards won etc. for DVDs/videos
• Program notes in .txt files

thanks,
Osho

[davisford]

...I really wish that there was a notion of "meta-data" for each of the albums in MC12. One can assign various different kind of files (cover art files, information about artist in .txt or .html files, lyrics in .txt files etc.) as meta-data for different albums...

Bump Osho's recommendation.  It is really labor-intensive.  I have close to 4000 albums.  Now I'm rebuilding the cover art from scratch.