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[ashbel]

All of my mp3s have been tagged with previous versions of Media Center.  They are set to save within the file.

This morning, MC17 inexplicably forgot the covers for just one track within for approximately 8000 albums.  I searched the library for empty image files, expanded them to full albums, and saved the covers to the drive (an half hour operation).  As I type this, Media Center 17 is retagging each of the files.

Why would this behaviour occur?  What would cause this?  How can I prevent this from happening again?

[lowjoel]

I can't really explain this either, but I have been seeing this (about 1 missing album art per 6k tracks)... I can't develop a repro case yet, but I'll post if I do.

[JimH]

Do you use Windows Home Server?

From the "Weird and Wonderful" thread:

Data Corruption
There are lots of possibilities, but Windows Home Server (WHS) is one:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=45258.0

and a more recent one:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=67735.0

[lowjoel]

Not sure about the OP, my library is stored on a UNC path, yes, but I'm running Windows Server 2008 Standard (the "corporate" edition)

[ashbel]

Do you use Windows Home Server?

From the "Weird and Wonderful" thread:

Data Corruption
There are lots of possibilities, but Windows Home Server (WHS) is one:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=45258.0

and a more recent one:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=67735.0

I don't know.  I don't think so.  Searching for it as a programme turned up naught.  I'm not doing anything more elaborate than sharing a drive with another computer, both using Windows 7 Home Edition, what came on the computers.  One computer acquires my radio shows and the other is the music machine.  No funny stuff or learning curves at all (can't be bothered really -- I'm more interested in listening, organising is a necessity, and if the container will do, it'll do).  Just having a quick look it looks like WHS is an extra for purchase, which might explain my ignorance.

After having a look at a few of the links and chaining them, it looks as though one must change the data in the explorer for the corruption to occur, or at least that's the picture I'm getting, but I'm no expert.  I do use the explorer to move files but that's all.  All tagging and renaming is done within MC17.  Generally I get the textual data more or less correct before import using the explorer, and after import add the covers.   

[ashbel]

This is getting critical.  Today I discovered 700 files whose Genres had dropped a letter, again one per album.  This could have the ability to trash my entire library, in excess of 150,000 files.

[ashbel]

Still happening.

It's not my setup because I ran MC15 for a year without this issue on the same exact system with the same exact setup.  It only started up with the upgrade and Beta.