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Old 13th January 2007, 01:23 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Re: Album Art in MCE music library

Guys,

I just did an interesting discovery... every artist and album folder has a desktop.ini file which saves info regarding the information retrieved from Internet and in each album folder there are a couple of file which start with "AlbumArt_{xxx...}_Large" and "AlbumArt_{xxx...}_Small"... looks like MCE uses these files to retrieve album info from Internet, but if for some reason there's no sync between the ID tags and this files, then MCE does not show info. What I did to solve this issue for good was:

1. Close MCE and WMP
2. Go to your music folder and look for AlbumArt_* and be sure to select in advance options the option to search for hidden and system files
3. Select all files and delete them
4. Do 2 and 3, but not with desktop.ini
5. Start MCE and WMP and you would notice everything is just fine

The only thing that looks like you loose when you do this, is the link between the album record in Internet and the one that you have in your music folder. For me this is not a big issue, and everything looks like should be in MCE now...

Hope this helps.... btw... the album picture is stored in folder.jpg and AlbumArtSmall...
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