MyMusic won't display MP3 cover art on some files (1 Viewer)

[Thomas42]

Hi,

after testing 3 months several MC systems for Windows I found MP the best of all. Actually I dropped it first, because there is no structured guide through the vast possibilities of MP and, starting to dig into MyMusic, due to an issue displaying cover art.


This screenshot displays the red cover from folder.jpg on the lower left and the black ID3 cover tags on list view. You'll notice the missing covers. These are all the same songs copied, just with different album tags.

After several hours of research I tracked down:

MP3 cover tags are correctly retrieved and cached at scan time using MP Configuration tool. Okay. But if the album tag contains a number and several blanks somewhere before it, cover display depends on some strange rule, probably some erroneous string length calculation on retrieval. Examples:

Album names without cover display | Fixed name with cover display
Cirkus (Live, CD 2) | Cirkus (CD 2, Live)
The Best Of Part 1 (Rem) | The Best Of Part I (Rem)
The Best Of Part 1 (Rem) | The Best Of Part A1 (Rem)
TheBestOf Part 1 (Rem) | TheBestOfPart 1 (Rem)
Really The Best (Baez, CD 1) | Really The Best (Baez, CD I)
Really The Best (Baez, CD 1) |Really The Best (CD 1, Baez)
Really The Best (Baez, CD 1)|Really The Best of Joan Baez (CD 1)
​

Similiar album names but with cover always displayed:
Echoes (CD 1, Remastered)
The Wall Live (CD 1)
Apassionata and Friends (CD 1)
​

Workaround:
Being xxx and yyy different strings, reformatting the album name will allow cover tag display:

''xxx (yyy, CD 1)'' format as ''xxx yyy (CD 1)'' or''xxx (CD 1, yyy)''
''xxx 1 (CD 1)'' format as ''xxx I (CD 1)'' i. e. embedded roman number ​

I didn't find any posts regarding this intermittend cover display, maybe these findings may be useful to the community. Thanks again for a truly great program.

Thomas

TV-Server Version: (Very old MP/TV-Engine)
MediaPortal Version: 1.0.0.0
MediaPortal Skin: Blue3 default
Windows Version: Test: XP SP2, HTPC: XP MCE2005 SP3
CPU Type: Test: Intel Pentium4@2.40GHz, HTPC: Intel Core2Duo 73002x2.67GHz
HDD: Test: Samsung SP2004C S-ATA IDE-Mode 190GB, HTPC: WD 2.5'' Scorpio Black S-ATAII AHCI 320GB
Memory: Test: 1GB DDR@333MHz, HTPC: 4GB DDR2-800
Motherboard: Test: MSI Neo-FISR w.VIA PT880, HTPC: Intel DG45FC miniITX
Video Card: Test: nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x, HTPC: Intel X4500HD (G45 ICH10R onboard)
Video Card Driver: Test: nVidia 6.14.10.9371, HTPC: Intel 14.36.5.5016
Sound Card: Test: Ultron C-Media 7.1, HTPC: Intel Azalia HD-Audio (G45 ICH10R onboard)
Sound Card AC3: not used (5.1 analog out)
Sound Card Driver: Test: C-Media 5.12.1.42, HTPC: Intel 6033.2 IDTGUI v124
1. TV Card: Test: TechniSat DVB-PC TV-Star PCI, HTPC: MSI Digivox Duo USB
1. TV Card Type: Test: DVB-T, HTPC: DVB-T
1. TV Card Driver: Test: 4.4.1.0 (01 Oct 2007), prod: (not yet installed)
MPEG2 Video Codec: Test: MediaPlayer MPV, HTPC: Corel WinDVD9plus
MPEG2 Audio Codec: Test: MediaPlayer MPA, HTPC: Corel WinDVD9plus
h.264 Video Codec: Test: CoreAVC, HTPC: Corel WinDVD9plus/ffdshow misc. versions
Satelite/CableTV Provider:
HTPC Case: HTPC: Modded Wurlitzer Baby Bubbler
Cooling: Intel boxed
Power Supply: Test: No-name 300W, HTPC: Seasonic SS-300SFD SFX 300W 80+
Remote: HTPC: Logitech diNovo Mini
TV: 40'' LCD Samsung LE-40S81B
TV - HTPC Connection: HDMI 1.3

 

[fredco]

Thanks for your research. This is indeed a bug, which still isn't fixed in 1.1.2.
This post was really helpful for me!