MP is downloading album art automaticly , how do i stop it. (1 Viewer)

[ohdarklord]

Every time i add new mp3s to my media center i allways add artist art and album art (callling the files folder.jpg and puting them in the correct folders)

Since the new music engine ive noticed that mp has been downloading album art automaticly and using it instead of my files.

So far its choosen some really bad album art some has price stickers on it and one had a big fold in the middle(like it was folded in half then scanned in)

Is there any way I turn this off

PS i dont know if this is part of the new music engine or not its juat thats when i noticed it.


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[tomtom21000]

Every time i add new mp3s to my media center i allways add artist art and album art (callling the files folder.jpg and puting them in the correct folders)

Is there any way I turn this off

Maybe it is not a question of turn on/off but sequence: first folder.jpg, if = none, than download.

But this may need more thought.

i have begun to include album art in the mp3 tags, so this is a third option.

There is another problem to think about. a folder.jpg is good for an album folder.
But I have also a folder called "Charts". On rescan mp always adds one folder.jpg and shows this wrong image for all songs that have no embedded album art tag.
thats a little annoyance. But also you can´t work with folder.jpg if you have a similar mixed folder.

tomtom

 

[rtv]

well as of yesterday there is an option to turn off the internet lookups.

I've also changed the preference order to look for .png first - as most likely this will be the "better" thumbs...

 

[CHli]

well as of yesterday there is an option to turn off the internet lookups.

I've also changed the preference order to look for .png first - as most likely this will be the "better" thumbs...

Thanks rtv, it works great for me now

 

[routerunner]

Well it doesn't really....

I've been fighting with this for days....I have all my music collection in a server organized the way I want it /Artist/Album name/tracks (where tracks have number - Title), every folder has cover arts via thumbnails.

When I use Share view after a while the track names changes to unknown - song name, the cover art are not updated correctly, not matter if you disable all the dynamic update flags or delete the thumb cache or the music database DB3 files.

I originally ripped all my CD music collection as WAV files (I'm an audiophile and can't compromise quality for space) onto a server using WMP11, filling all the relevant information when missing and downloading/scanning from leaflet all the original cover arts, a massive job I tell you. Then I discovered MP, what a great piece of software, (I'm a software engineer myself and I know all the efforts involved to make something like that), so abandoned WMP11 straight away and decided to build an HTPC with MP.

 

[rtv]

This is totally unrelated - but a clear sign that your track's tags are not tagged correctly.
MP cannot work at it's full potential without database but you want to deactivate the "autoadd tracks to database" setting + never scan the collection.

 

[routerunner]

many thanks for the prompt reply...

I've just done what you said, also cleared the database/thumbs file before launching MP and now is better ;-)

Regarding the Cover Art I've just noticed that it doesn't pick up the right one correctly, for example I've got a folder like this:

Adiemus/Cantata Mundi
|
|> /Songs of Sanctuary

The filmstrip layout shows for "Songs of Sanctuary" the cover art related to "Canta Mundi" and even clearing the thumb cache still generates the small/large icon for "Cantata Mundi" but not for "Song of Sanctuary"

 

[rtv]

All thumbs will only work correctly if MP is used with tags and database so performance can be kept (otherwhise it would have to contact the music shares constantly).

For the caching - did you uncheck configuration->general->thumbs->"create folder cache on demand"?

 

[routerunner]

Hi,

I've managed to make it working in the end ;-)

When you've got time, can you please explain what the following tick box in Music->Music Database does?:

- Treat track in an individual folder as an album
- Use folder.jpg to create thumbnail (which thumbnails?)

The reason I ask is because it looks like the problems I had was trying to use these two.