Wow, thanks for your incredibly long answer, and for your patience with me. I'm sure you have better things to do than teach some noob the inner workings of Mediaportal, so I appreciate that.
I'm going to look more into it tomorrow and see what I can work out. I only need to comment on one thing before I hit the sack:
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Originally Posted by rtv  Reason for it to only work on folders: Imagine you've got a bunch of mixed songs in one single directory. The lookup would create a folder.jpg which would be displayed for ALL of them. |
This has been bugging me slightly: It's not possible to do art lookup for *albums* (in Album view, for instance), only for folders (in Shares view). Why is that? Wouldn't it be smarter to have the art associated with the album tag in the database instead of the folder that the files are in, seeing as how many people seem to not sort their music by album folders? That would make this whole issue a non-problem, since the art would then be associated with database entries and not with the actual files.
Illustration:
Some files are bunched together with others in an \Mp3\ directory. Now, there are files from different albums in this directory, so using a folder.jpg won't work, like you indicated in your post. What if we instead were to use Mediaportal's music database, where the album name of the file is fetched from the id3-tag (I'm guessing), and simply associate all files with that album name with a certain album art in the database? Then, of course, you could still have separate art for folders simply by reading folder.jpg and displaying it in Shares view. Also, you could import album art into Mediaportal from the Artists view, or Albums view, or whatever you want. Right now it's only possible to download cover art from within Mediaportal for *folders*, but if folders aren't always albums, then the idea of restricting downloading of album art to folders strikes me as odd.
Of course, this might be what has been intended, but it certainly doesn't seem to be working, for me at least.
If I've misunderstood the general idea somewhere, I'm sorry and I apologise. It's certainly not my intention to step on any programmer's toes here, I'm just trying to work out what the problem I'm having with this is, really.
Thanks for the fixes you talked about! It's great that you're so quick to respond to the user base. Again, I wish I was more skilled as a programmer so I could help out myself. As it stands, I can only do my best to help out by testing. I'll make sure to update my MP version tomorrow then.
For now, I'm off to bed. Cheers!