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[tomrusse]

Let me try again.

I installed MJ on my server and all worked quite well.  I could rip CDs to MP3 and would get cover art as I should.

Now I am unable to receive cover art for any CD I have and I'm at a loss as to what might have changed.  I've installed MJ on 3 different systems with the exact same results.  I have also completely de-installed MJ, including libraries, re-installed with the latest version and ripped the exact same CD I had success with in the past with the same results...no cover art.

When I do a "GET" from internet, a dialog box pops up saying "sownloading images" with "Getting cover art for..." the album name.  After a few minutes the dialog box goes away with no image in the Image...Media File Properties dialog box with the text "Location: no image(s)".

Can someone please give me a few ideas to try or suggest why what once worked fince now fails on 3 different systems?

Tom

[Matt]

Sorry Tom, but that get cover art thing isn't an exact science.

I can say that version 9 works better than 8, but it's probably too early to use 9, unless you're really brave.

[tomrusse]

Thanks for the reply.  It's definitely a mystery as it worked so well once.  My target system is a dedicated HTPC.  I'll just re-image it for fun and see if that "resets" the broken bits.  Stranger things have happened.

Tom

[Matt]

You could always backup your library, install 9, get the cover art, uninstall, and put 8 back.  You might even find that 9 is good enough already.

And thanks for being so cool about it.

[tomrusse]

Great idea!  I tried it and it worked fine.  Go figure.

Issues like these are a small price to pay for the flexibility you've put into this product.  The flexibility of the program with extensive personal customization options (I'm a big fan of lossless compression via Monkey Audio) makes this program far superior to MusicMatch.

Thanks for all the help.
Tom

[Matt]

Glad it worked out.

I'm a big fan of lossless compression via Monkey Audio

Hehe -- me too.  Stupid name though, huh?

[Mooneyass]

I can see how it could be difficult to get the cover art working well.  Lets say I wanted to go get jpegs myself from amazon.com or something, is it possible so that MJ would see it?

[KingSparta]

well there are problems with MJ9 and cover art.

one of them i found last week but i did not report was.

Use Loose find, this will find the wrong coverart (not on all i would hope). then do a normal search for cover art and use always replace.

MJ will not overwrite the old cover art in the mp3 file with the new one.

[jgourd]

I am in the same boat as you. Cover Art over the Internet used to work fine but stopped working completely around a week ago.

[joanneva]

I just tried to get cover art too off the internet for the first time on latest MJ 8 build while connected. It says it is retreiving but I get nothing...  

It is a mystery to me where and how MJ is supposed to pull cover art from.. and can these settings be changed?

If someone could post a definitive explanation that would be helpful..

[JimH]

Make sure you have a current version.  Not all albums will be found.  You can find art anywhere on the Internet, right click and copy the image, then paste into MJ.

[tomrusse]

If MJ doesn't find cover art, I simply use the "Find Artist" feature and grab the cover art from AMG.  Works fine.  Having said that, MJ 9 is MUCH BETTER than 8 in finding cover art.

Tom