Album Art Disappears Over Time Solution

[scott_mckenzie]

All,

Not sure if you all are having the same problems as me, but I have found that while say 95% of my music collection in MCE is perfect in terms of album art, I have noticed that over time the cover art for the remining 5% seems to drop off which is annoying. I also have noticed that the music that seems to have the most trouble is the music where the album can't be found in the "Find Album Info" section of Media Player. This morning, I found the source of the problem!

First thing you need to do to find the source of the problem is to get out of MCE, open Windows Explorer, Go to Tools - Folder Options - View tab - and select Show Hidden Files and Folders.

Then go into the folder where your cover art is the problem. I did 3 things for each of the folders that I was having a problem - 1. Deleted the desktop.ini file from the folder, and made sure that I had an "unhidden" image file for the cover (all of mine I called cover.jpg).
2. Deleted all the hidden image files.
3. Right Clicked on the Album Folder, then Properties - Customise tab - Choose Picture and selected the cover.jpg file.

Once I did this my cover art was OK again. While this doesn't fix the problem of the cover art disappearing, I think that maybe a clever script to run off a scheduled task and it would be all good. I will look into this and keep you posted.

Hopefully this will help those that have spent tireless months building the perfect album collection that still have these niggling issues.

Cheers - Scott

[bella]

I use Av album art fixer and do not have this kind of problem.

[Bryce]

Hi scott_mckenzie

As said above by bella Av album art fixer. Excellent app.

Should the issue continue, use Av album art fixer to save time.
It will most likely fix the issue.

Two good applications to have on hand..

For music foldrs: Av album art fixer http://www.avsoft.nl/artfixer/

For Videos Folders DVD Cover Grabber: http://www.madprops.org/DVDCover/

Bryce