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Album Cover Art - Finally a Fix
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Man thanks heaps for this, this has been a major annoyance ever since I switched to Vista MCE. I even went to the trouble of using Media Monkey to embed every mp3 with the album art. With this solution I can undo this as I shouldn't have had to do it in the first place.
CuFk
This app is designed principally for those who store their albums in a hierarchical fashion, i.e. in Artists/Albums folders and within those album folders you have the cover of the album stored using the name "folder.jpg"
MCE2005 used to work nicely with this structure but changed when the release VMC.
The reason for the dropdown of "folder.jpg" & "folder.jpg (500x500)" is that I personally batch converted all of my really high res covers (folder.jpg) down to 500x500 pixels for 2 reasons, the 1st being that VMC does not display the covers anywhere larger than 500x500 in size and secondly I wanted to save some space when copying these covers with my little app for every cover. In that dropdown you can have whateve name you wish if you have covers in every album folder named something like "cover.jpg"
Hope that helps a litte.
Fez
Glad it is of use and thanks for the points
sialivi
No worries, your feedback was very valid. As for a MCE2005 version ... umm we didn't really have the issue in that version of media centre did we?
BGH
Yeah, I went down the same path bloating my mp3s with the covers ... Let me know how the app works for you when you test it.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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?
