Artwork glitch?

[iSinergy]

I did some searching around and caved and just made an account to ask here. I'm doubting anyone knows how to fix this or will give me a sarcastic reply, but anyway onto the question.

I have various audio formats in my library and i moved 2 albums i had done in FLAC to my library and ever since i did that the album art work for that album has been showing up on about 75% of over 800 albums.

Like i said i did some research and can't find an answer or a solution. I'm quite positive its embedded cause when i transfer music to my Android, it shows on the Winamp app and another app all the same art work.

Is there a solution to this? I have the latest version of Winamp and uninstalled and installed but nothing.

[Aminifu]

Hi iSinergy,

Not sure what you mean by embedded. Artwork embedded in the files or a problem embedded in WA? By design, WA will display embedded albumart in file tags before image files stored in album folders.

The image file naming must follow the following rules and the images are selected in the following order.

1. %album%.jpg/png/gif/bmp (where %album% is the exact name of the Album tag)

2. An .nfo file with the exact same filename as an image file in the containing folder

3. cover.jpg/png/gif/bmp

4. folder.jpg/png/gif/bmp

5. front.jpg/png/gif/bmp

A .nfo file is just a text file with that extension. DrO reports that "albumart.jpg/png/gif/bmp" will be supported in the next release of WA.

Anyway, turn on the option to display hidden system files in Windows Explorer and the option to display file extensions (if not done already). Then check your music folders for new and/or highjacked image files. Windows 7 has a way of doing this in response to certain user actions. I have not be able to nail down exactly what these actions are. I randomly experience the problem of unexpected changes and/or additions to images in my music folders.

One way to stop this is to change each folder's customization from 'Music' to 'General Items'. But then you lose the positive benefits of Windows Explorer's music customizing feature.

[iSinergy]

Thanks for the reply but i assumed it was embedded into the file or WA mixed something up.

If i went into windows media player all the artwork for the albums are correct but in WA a lot duplicates of one cover.

Example: http://d.pr/i/Y5Dr

When i transfer the music to my phone from WA it brings the duplicate artwork along with the file so I'm thinking its embedded within WA or the file itself?

So would the only way to fix this be in WA:

View File Info > Artwork

And change them all manually cause WA won't recognize?

[Aminifu]

Originally Posted by iSinergy

Thanks for the reply but i assumed it was embedded into the file or WA mixed something up.

If i went into windows media player all the artwork for the albums are correct but in WA a lot duplicates of one cover.

Example: http://d.pr/i/Y5Dr

When i transfer the music to my phone from WA it brings the duplicate artwork along with the file so I'm thinking its embedded within WA or the file itself?

So would the only way to fix this be in WA:

View File Info > Artwork

And change them all manually cause WA won't recognize?

Hi,

Winamp does make a cache of some artwork to speed later processing but anything that's transferred must be in the file itself (if it's not a separate image file that was copied).

You can use any 3rd party file tagger (such as TagScanner or MP3Tag) to bulk remove artwork embedded in your files. WA's artwork support is not very good, imo.

I have no direct knowledge of how WA deals with smart phones. I suggest doing a forums search on that specific issue (artwork transfer to phones).

Did you check your folders for 'wrong' images?

You can also select all your files in the media library and force WA to re-read the tags (right-click on the selection and click on the option to read metadata of selected files). You should do this for the appropriate files after any tag changes to ensure the media library database is up-to-date.