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<blockquote data-quote="Taipan" data-source="post: 153638" data-attributes="member: 11681">Wow, 82 views and not a single comment - I guess that means there are at least 82 other users who are puzzled by these &quot;music thumbs&quot;, too ?Anyway, I do have an answer to query #5 &quot;What is the benefit of having these thumbnails in addition to the existing “folder.jpg”s?&quot;Apparently, these thumbnails are created for those users who have their music files (and thus their cover art files) on a remote disk, like a networked disk.&nbsp; Having the cover art cached in the &quot;Thumbs&quot; folder on the same disk as MediaPortal should speed up the display of the cover art in the various Music screens.However, for those of us who have all our music files on the same disk as MediaPortal, there is no benefit.&nbsp; In fact, if like me, you regularly install the latest SVN release and do a backup at the same time you will find that the backups take ages because another 4,000+ thumbnail files are backed up, too. I am still curious to know the answers to queries 1, 2 3, &amp; 4 - so if anyone can enlighten me, I will be very grateful ...<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> In an attempt to find out where these thumbnails are used, I deleted all the files in the Thumbs\Music\Folder and I have not noticed any detrimental effect.&nbsp; I also deleted all the 768x768 thumbnails in the Thumbs\Music\Albums folder and again, I have not noticed any detrimental effect.&nbsp; So I have to conclude that these thumbnails are not used at all within MediaPortal ... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Taipan, post: 153638, member: 11681"] Wow, 82 views and not a single comment - I guess that means there are at least 82 other users who are puzzled by these "music thumbs", too ? Anyway, I do have an answer to query #5 "What is the benefit of having these thumbnails in addition to the existing “folder.jpg”s?" Apparently, these thumbnails are created for those users who have their music files (and thus their cover art files) on a remote disk, like a networked disk. Having the cover art cached in the "Thumbs" folder on the same disk as MediaPortal should speed up the display of the cover art in the various Music screens. However, for those of us who have all our music files on the same disk as MediaPortal, there is no benefit. In fact, if like me, you regularly install the latest SVN release and do a backup at the same time you will find that the backups take ages because another 4,000+ thumbnail files are backed up, too. I am still curious to know the answers to queries 1, 2 3, & 4 - so if anyone can enlighten me, I will be very grateful ...:) In an attempt to find out where these thumbnails are used, I deleted all the files in the Thumbs\Music\Folder and I have not noticed any detrimental effect. I also deleted all the 768x768 thumbnails in the Thumbs\Music\Albums folder and again, I have not noticed any detrimental effect. So I have to conclude that these thumbnails are not used at all within MediaPortal ... :S [/QUOTE]

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