Issues with album art

styxelite · 2006-08-16, 15:11

When viewing the album view in MediaPortal, the albums with album art are all nice, but the one's where the album tag is missing and where there is no album art imbedded into the file, it shows up random album art, like in this screenshot:

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/6278/unknownro8.jpg

These "unknown" files are mp3 that are tagged with Artist and Title, but without Album. Also, I would like to have all "unknown" files into one single entry

onkl · 2006-08-16, 15:31

A very first impression: try searching for a file named "unknown.*" in mediaportal\thumbs\ and subfolders and delete it if existing. Slim chance though..

styxelite · 2006-08-16, 15:33

Did that already, but the Gary Moore picture keeps spawning out of thin air

Despot · 2006-09-29, 22:12

Having the same problem here--small annoyance in an otherwise nifty app. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Spragleknas · 2006-09-29, 22:31

I had the same issue..... found right .thumb and deleted it. Belive I found it under \My Music\ <- no subfolder

hwahrmann · 2006-09-29, 23:29

Ok, when scanning the Music Shares and we find a file with embedded cover art is gets extracted in the form "Artist-Album.jpg" (without the quotes) and is stored in thumbs\music\albums.
Furthermore, we store it as "Artist.jpg" in thumbs\music\artists if it doesn't already exist.
And another copy goes as "genre.jpg" in thumbs\music\genres if it doesn't exist.
in the later 2 directories they are hidden files, so you might not find them, if you don't display hidden files.

What happened in your case was that a file with no Artist and Album info had a "Gary Moore" image embedded, so it git extracted and stored as "unknown-unknown.jpg" in the albums dir.
furthermore the same picture was stored as "unknown.jpg" in the artists folder.
This caused now Gary Moore's picture to appear on all unknown artists and unknown albums.
So in short you need to remove the unknown.jpg from the artists folder.

But you should get one of those Tag-editors, like TGF or ID3-Tagit, etc., and tag your files, at least Artist and Album.

The feeling will be much better.
I know it is hard work, i tagged all of my 20k files a while ago.
But using the right tool it is quite easy.
The editirs mentioned above, would then be able to organise your music lib into a folder structure like Artist\Album\Song.

Believe me, having done this helps a lot.

regards,

Helmut

Despot · 2006-09-30, 01:45

Excellent, that did the trick. Thanks!

I fully agree about the tagging, my favorite tag util is EasyTag (http://easytag.sourceforge.net/). Some of the files on my computer don't have a relevant tag, tho, for instance, jam sessions from my musical friends. Nice to know how to get rid of that art...

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styxelite Portal Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Issues with album art When viewing the album view in MediaPortal, the albums with album art are all nice, but the one's where the album tag is missing and where there is no album art imbedded into the file, it shows up random album art, like in this screenshot: http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/6278/unknownro8.jpg These "unknown" files are mp3 that are tagged with Artist and Title, but without Album. Also, I would like to have all "unknown" files into one single entry

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onkl Portal Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Wageningen Age: 32 Posts: 339 Thanks: 5 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Country: My System	A very first impression: try searching for a file named "unknown.*" in mediaportal\thumbs\ and subfolders and delete it if existing. Slim chance though.. __________________

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2006-08-16, 15:33	#3 (permalink)
styxelite Portal Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Did that already, but the Gary Moore picture keeps spawning out of thin air

2006-09-29, 22:12	#4 (permalink)
Despot Portal User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Country:	Having the same problem here--small annoyance in an otherwise nifty app. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

2006-09-29, 23:29	#6 (permalink)
hwahrmann Portal Developer Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Vienna, Austria Posts: 1,466 Thanks: 2 Thanked 77 Times in 49 Posts Country:	Ok, when scanning the Music Shares and we find a file with embedded cover art is gets extracted in the form "Artist-Album.jpg" (without the quotes) and is stored in thumbs\music\albums. Furthermore, we store it as "Artist.jpg" in thumbs\music\artists if it doesn't already exist. And another copy goes as "genre.jpg" in thumbs\music\genres if it doesn't exist. in the later 2 directories they are hidden files, so you might not find them, if you don't display hidden files. What happened in your case was that a file with no Artist and Album info had a "Gary Moore" image embedded, so it git extracted and stored as "unknown-unknown.jpg" in the albums dir. furthermore the same picture was stored as "unknown.jpg" in the artists folder. This caused now Gary Moore's picture to appear on all unknown artists and unknown albums. So in short you need to remove the unknown.jpg from the artists folder. But you should get one of those Tag-editors, like TGF or ID3-Tagit, etc., and tag your files, at least Artist and Album. The feeling will be much better. I know it is hard work, i tagged all of my 20k files a while ago. But using the right tool it is quite easy. The editirs mentioned above, would then be able to organise your music lib into a folder structure like Artist\Album\Song. Believe me, having done this helps a lot. regards, Helmut

2006-09-30, 01:45	#7 (permalink)
Despot Portal User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Country:	Excellent, that did the trick. Thanks! I fully agree about the tagging, my favorite tag util is EasyTag (http://easytag.sourceforge.net/). Some of the files on my computer don't have a relevant tag, tho, for instance, jam sessions from my musical friends. Nice to know how to get rid of that art...