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<blockquote data-quote="BrillMistake" data-source="post: 325407" data-attributes="member: 63290">Update.... the plot thickens....OK, so after much frustration, I deleted my Music Database, and started over. Configured MediaPortal (RC3) to only use folder.jpg, and not to use ID3 for images.Now here's the interesting part.... precisely the same results (although I am confident MediaPortal is picking up the folder.jpg, since I used the same folder.jpg file in ALL my album folders (as a test).So... I think ID3 embedded art is a possible red herring.... For some reason, given precisely the same folder.jpg file placed in every album folder.... MediaPortal still only picks up the first 18 or so artists (including all their associated albums). Then it starts to fail to render the cover art of the artist.My next test will be to remove the cover art for the first 18 artists and see if MediaPortal then finds the cover art for the next 18 (suggesting it's memory / disk constrained in some way)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrillMistake, post: 325407, member: 63290"] [b]Update.... the plot thickens....[/b] OK, so after much frustration, I deleted my Music Database, and started over. Configured MediaPortal (RC3) to only use folder.jpg, and not to use ID3 for images. Now here's the interesting part.... precisely the same results (although I am confident MediaPortal is picking up the folder.jpg, since I used the same folder.jpg file in ALL my album folders (as a test). So... I think ID3 embedded art is a possible red herring.... For some reason, given precisely the same folder.jpg file placed in every album folder.... MediaPortal still only picks up the first 18 or so artists (including all their associated albums). Then it starts to fail to render the cover art of the artist. My next test will be to remove the cover art for the first 18 artists and see if MediaPortal then finds the cover art for the next 18 (suggesting it's memory / disk constrained in some way) [/QUOTE]

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