Re: Problem importing custom album art

[Dale]

Is the album art that is getting added against your wishes the correct album
art? Could it be an older or newer cover for the album that the cover you
have? Is there any relationship to what it is adding to your albums and the
album in question?

Dale

"Henry" <He...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have like 40-50 albums without any album art so I pasted the proper album
> art on each album but for some unknown reason, my imported album art kept
> on
> replacing some of my other album with the last image I paste on it.
>
> For example:
> If I have 5 albums
> [album 1] [album 2] [album 3] [album 4] [album 5]
>
>
> [album 1] [image1]
> [album 2] [image2]
> [album 3] [image3]
> [album 4] no image
> [album 5] no image
>
> When I paste the next image on [album 4] or [album 5], it mights replace
> my
> album art on [album 1] and/or [album 2] and/or [album 3] with the recent
> image I imported. Anyone know what might be causing this problem?
>

[Henry]

Yes, I only intent to add my album art on one specific album but somehow also
replace on my other album's art cover as well. I am not too sure what are you
asking about older or newer cover; I can tell you all album art was manually
drag and drop by me. If I want to put newer cover for an album with an
existing image then all I have to do is drag and drop my new image over my
existing album art. As far as for the relationship goes those album was by
the same artist name and folder but with different name of the album.

As I spend sometime organizing my music library, I realized this problem
mostly occurred on music files ripped from CD single and Asian CDs. I found
out the cause of this problem was the method that I stores all my of music
files under the same folder base on music artist but without using sub-folder
for separating my music by different albums, it resolved my problem after I
created a folder and pull those albums that got replaced with my image from
different album into my new folder. In confusion, CD single and Asian CDs
somehow caused a conflict on its album art by different album art from
different CD in the same folder but oddly enough only some albums had this
kind of conflict.

[Dale]

It sounds like your problem is due to errors in the Microsoft/AMG database.
Because WMP11 will always replace your custom art with its own, and if its
own is wrong, you'll end up with the wrong artwork.

Unfortunately, there's no mechanism that I have been able to find that
allows users to submit corrections to the album art in that database.

Supposedly, there is a mechanism for submitting changes to tracks: you can
right click the album in Album view and select Find Album Info. Any edits
you make there are submitted to Microsoft but I have never seen those
updates applied to the database.

Dale

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