[solved] Mixed artist pictures (2 Viewers)

[ajs]

In my music library all Track have embedded Cover, all album folders have Folder.jpg with correct album Cover, all Artist folder have Folder.jpg with Artist image, folder structure:

• MP3 - Artist - Album - Tracks ...
• Loseless - Artist - Album - Tracks ...

If Album have more then one disk, in tracks metadata Disk# / Disc All information present to ...
For music library organize i use TagScanner TagScanner - The Ultimate Tag Editor

 

[ajs]

And do not forget, not only the FH creates the thumbs, but also the Media Portal itself.

 

[horned_reaper]

OK, thanks!

Do you know where the folder thumbs are created from?

 

[ajs]

Do you know where the folder thumbs are created from?

In no Thumbs folder, MP create it when start ... Or are you talking about?

 

[horned_reaper]

I mean the thumbs which are displayed on scrolling through the folders list in the Music module. Directory ...\MediaPortal\Thumbs\Music\Folder

 

[ajs]

I mean the thumbs which are displayed on scrolling through the folders list in the Music module.

In Shared view? Or in Database view, But most likely the MP is looking for a picture in the thumbnails folder, if it does not find it, it is looking for the Folder.jpg in the folder with tracks.

But maybe its depend from Settings - Music Database Config:

 

[horned_reaper]

Thanks! Found it:

Music Database Settings

Create a music database of all your albums, artist and tracks with details information, album covers, artist images, etc.

www.team-mediaportal.com

Use for Thumb Creation
Tips MPTagThat - to tag all your music files, and add album covers. Fanart Handler for Artist fanart MusicInfoHandler to automatically 'scrape' artist and album info in the background whenever MP is loaded

Select the source you wish to use to auto generate thumbnail images of artists and album covers for display in MediaPortal.

• cover art embedded ID3- Tags - Default: on
  most music taggers, and programs like iTunes or Media Monkey, add the cover art inside the mp3 in the ID3-tag, Enable this option if you have mp3's with covers inside the ID3 tags
• folder.jpg (recommended) - Default: on
  An easy way to use cover art is to put the cover art in the same folder as the music file(s) and name it folder.jpg. MediaPortal will use this folder for cover art. Disable this if you have added cover art to your ID3 Tags, or if you let MediaPortal scan your iPod.
  • *.png *.jpg (prefers 'front' cover) - Default: on - if you enable folder.jpg you can choose which image format you prefer as the main image or front cover.
• Create genre preview thumbs - Default: off
  The thumbs for the genres will be taken from the first file.
• Create artist preview thumbs - Default: off
  The thumbs for the artist view will be taken from the first file.
• Create missing folder.jpg from album thumb - Default: off
  If you select Treat tracks in an individual folder as an album this option will become available. Use it to create a copy of the cover art MediaPortal can download automatically in the album folder. If enabled this option, MediaPortal can recreate the cover art thumbs from the music folder and other programs can also see the cover art.

 

[horned_reaper]

Another question: Do you know why all thumb files are stored with the Hidden file attribute?
This applies to:
..\MediaPortal\Thumbs\Music\Albums
..\MediaPortal\Thumbs\Music\Artists
..\MediaPortal\Thumbs\Music\Folders

These folders don't have the Hidden attribute, but all their files.
This makes them difficult to be seen in Windows File Explorer preview because they are shown brighter e. g.:

 

[ajs]

Do you know why all thumb files are stored with the Hidden file attribute?

MP create all thumbs with Hidden file attribute, FH create without Hidden file attribute

 

[ajs]

Windows File Explorer preview because they are shown brighter

Try XNView ...