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[MarkCoutinho]

I'm quite puzzled here. I've been using the cover art quite some years now. Because of a crash I had to recover my music and cover art from another p.c.
I use the same library. However, some files appear to be missing the cover art. Well, that can happen, so I started to do the Quick Find In File option. But none of those who already miss the cover art pick up the right file. They do when I add it manually through Add From File.

The cause cannot be that the files contain strange characters. Here are 3 examples:
Abba - Summer night city
Adiemus - Adiemus
Alan Parsons Project - Old and wise

And, believe me, all files have EXACTLY the same name as the mp3's. So:
Abba - Summer night city.jpg
Adiemus - Adiemus.jpg
Alan Parsons Project - Old and wise.jpg

Further: In the options I've chosen the option "In the same folder as the file" in the File Location / Cover Art section.

Last (helpful) test:
when I remove a cover from a file that does have a cover art and add it again with Quick Find it does add it again with no hesitation.

So....
What can it be?

Thanks for your help!

[MarkCoutinho]

Bump and addition:

It gets even stranger because on my 'shadow'-pc it does work properly. Bare in mind that on both pc's the library, mp3's and jpg's are identical.
I did a test on my shadow-pc with the files mentioned below: I removed the cover art and added it through Quick Find. And that DID work!
So apparantly it's not a bug.

But why are some cover arts 'gone' and can't be added through Quick Find?

[MarkCoutinho]

No replies so far, so I give it a BUMP here.

Anyone, please?

[Matt]

Make sure you have 16.0.42 or newer:


16.0.42 (3/2/2011)

....
4. Fixed: The program was not properly finding external artwork saved to the cover art folder.
....

[MarkCoutinho]

I've got version 49, Matt. And I tried it just now again: it's not working. But that's the funny part: yesterday at the office (also version 49) it did work, like I said in my 'update-mail'.
Even stranger: when I remove a cover art that is good and then re-add it with Quick Find it DOES add it properly.

It's sooo strange.

Please help!

Thanks in advance.

[Alex B]

It is possible that some of the files are missing the cached thumbnail even though the "Image File" library filed has a value (link to the image file) and thus the album images do show up in library views. "Right-click > Cover Art > Rebuild Thumbnail" should help in this case.

You could create a custom list view for checking the cover art status. Add the "Image File" column next to the "Image (small thumbnail)" column.

[MarkCoutinho]

Thanks, Alex. But no, Rebuild Cover Art does not help.
And when I add the Image File column I see that all images are / should be inside the file - also the ones that don't show up.

I did another test: I manually added a cover to a song that wouldn't Quick Find it. That works. Then I delete the cover art (not the jpg). And after that I do a Quick Find... and then it does find it!

Now don't say I should do that with all files, because my estimation is that some 5 % of my 16,000 files are covercorrupt.

So any other suggestion will be highly appreciated.

[Alex B]

And when I add the Image File column I see that all images are / should be inside the file - also the ones that don't show up.

Perhaps the actual file tag that is supposed to contain the cover art file is corrupted for some reason. I guess that a file that already has cover art (= has a value in the Image File field) is bypassed during "Quick Find".

[MarkCoutinho]

Does this enlighten things perhaps?
When I make a filter: image file = empty it comes up with just the few songs of which I indeed do not have a cover art file.

However: when I play the files that have the problems mentioned in the first post the cover art does not show in a Track Info screen which contains cover art.

Again: it's so stupid: I made an exact copy of the files (including the path names) and the library I use at the office and here at home are identical too. At the office everything's alright - here at home 5 % of the files appear to be missing the cover art.