Album Cover Art - Finally a Fix - Page 2

sialivi · **12th October 2007, 11:58 AM**

Well, all my artwork is named CoverArt.jpg, since I've had problems in the past where files named folder.jpg have been overwritten with low resolution artwork, and MCE 2005 ignores them.

kensden · **14th October 2007, 12:27 PM**

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PeterPan · **15th October 2007, 09:44 AM**

sialivi
Did you ever try making all your folder.jpg read only in the file attributes? That is what I did as well as taking a backup of them all in case Windows did try to resize them. Have not had a problem since.

Kensden
Thanks for deleting your post and starting your own in Album Art Woes, hopefully my response in that thread should help you.

bcowell · **17th October 2007, 03:14 AM**

I keep getting an "Access is denied error" when I run the app.

I am still trying to undertstand how it works but basically download a high res cover art image and dump it in the album folder, call the image "folder" or "folder (500x500)" and then run the application and it should now use all the new high res coverart in VMC?

If anyone could help me with my permissions error it would be appreciated.

cheers

tenchuam · **17th October 2007, 07:33 AM**

You, my friend... are a champion!

mrees · **17th October 2007, 09:18 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ozhound

Ive never had this problem, i just use media monkey and pick a high res image to imbed into the mp3 file. the auto-tag option is quick, easy and pretty thorough if you are dealing with complete albums.

Ditto
You can script it all in seconds.
I think I embedded around 20,000 MP3s in under an hour and the best thing is that I don't have to deal with annoying system jpg's in folders anymore. The cover art is in the MP3 and it ain't going anywhere

keyser soz · **19th October 2007, 02:44 AM**

Great App, I finally managed to look at hires cover art! Nice!

Just one question: What about the small cover art when you enter the "music library" inside Media Center? Any way to change those as well - aren't they size 200x200 or 75x75??

One suggestion as well - would it be possible to make your app remember if you type something else than "folder.jpg" under the "Default image name"??
If I for instance would choose to use AlbumArtLarge.jpg as my default image name it's not remembered in the drop down box.

Valo · **19th October 2007, 08:31 PM**

Fantastic App! It solved the issues I've been having with the Music Library

Thanks

PeterPan · **21st October 2007, 11:36 PM**

Valo
You are welcome, glad it helped another person.

keyser soz
Not sure where the small cover art when you enter the "music library" inside Media Center is stored, happy to have a crack at this if anyone has any ideas where the cache is stored.

As for your suggestion of having the app remember if you type something other than "folder.jpg" under the "Default image name" such as your "AlbumArtLarge.jpg" is a great idea. It has been implemented in 1.2

tenchuam
Glad to have another satisfied forum member

bcowell
Are you still having the same problem? Do you have admin rights on your login?

Cheers,

Pete.

PeterPan · **21st October 2007, 11:40 PM**

New release as per keyser soz's suggestion

VMC Album Art Fixer 1.2

* Added ini file to remember [Default Image Name]

Cheers,

Pete.

sialivi · **28th October 2007, 11:21 AM**

I can't get this to work.

I've run the application and I've checked the Art Cache folder to confirm that the artwork has been copied there, but they still don't show up in Media Center for some reason.

Any ideas?

PeterPan · **28th October 2007, 03:53 PM**

sialivi,

Are you on Vista or MCE2005? Last post I read you were on MCE2005 for which this app is not designed; MS significanly changed album art between MCE2005 and Vista.

If you are on Vista have you looked in the following folder:

C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player\Art Cache\LocalMLS

What's there?

Cheers,

Pete.

PeterPan · **28th October 2007, 03:56 PM**

Well found a little problem with my app when the WMP library grows quite large (I added our family pictures and my library grew to about 30,000+ items of which only 4,000 were songs) and VMC Album Art Fixer ground to a halt when counting. Further searching the WMP SDK led to me finding a more efficient way to count songs which I implemented in this update.

VMC Album Art Fixer 1.3

Changelog
*Fixed Audio Counting method, much quicker to count and copy on large librarys
*Fixed overwrite bug
*Added total number of songs and failed count to log file

Cheers,

Pete.

sialivi · **29th October 2007, 01:00 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by PeterPan

sialivi,

Are you on Vista or MCE2005? Last post I read you were on MCE2005 for which this app is not designed; MS significanly changed album art between MCE2005 and Vista.

If you are on Vista have you looked in the following folder:

C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player\Art Cache\LocalMLS

What's there?

Cheers,

Pete.

I'm running Vista

The Art Cache\LocalMLS folder contains all the album art like expected but they still don't show up in VMC

I'm not 100% sure about this or if my eyes are playing tricks on me but:
When I enter the gallery, all the artwork is low quality
When selecting an album and get to the track listing, the small artwork at the top of the screen looks like it's high quality, and this is the only place I get better quality
When finally starting to play the music and display the large artwork, it's low quality again

PeterPan · **29th October 2007, 08:13 AM**

sialivi

Have you by any chance embeded jpg's into the mp3?? I beleive the embeded art takes priority over folder.jpg hence why you might be getting lower quality artwork displaying.

I would also suggest deleting all the files in C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player\Art Cache\LocalMLS and running VMC Album Art Fixer again.

Let us know how you go.

Pete.