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When playing some newly prepared playlists, I get a dialog box saying "Check Cover Art" with the message "CoverartPath is empty".  This does not happen with albums, only with playlists.  Previously prepared playlists play fine.  Does anyone know what causes this error.  I can click "OK" and playback resumes, but it is a both when trying to play a long playlist.

Playing the playlist using Windows Media Player works fine, so wondering if this has something to do with how XXHE handles cover art for playlists where each track essentially has a different associated album cover.

Have same error for a very long time. Tried to solve it by adding any photo named 'folder' (.jpg, .png) in directory - no success, error repeats (as well as need to confirm OK on every file). Thought my W10 was damaged but same repeats on W11 as well.

What is a "Playlist" in this realm ?
The only phenomenon Playlist as such is one from Tidal. And Tidal stopped working for XXHE to begin with.
Playlist Area is something else, but there is no difference between one album or two or 20 with a couple of tracks of each.

And so I guess it requires some elaboration ?
Nothing stopped working over here.


That is :fishy: because only 14393.0 is supported, and some older of course.

Hi Peter, long time no speak, ahm, no e-mail :)
My case: it is not 'playlist' per se, just a number of files randomly chosen from different albums and put into same folder. Like example, 'good' or 'night music' or like, f.e. member 'tore', 'tore's choice' etc. Files (larger number, like 40, 50 or more) are loaded through XXHE explorer, played on standard PC, not audio PC and not minimised/optimised Windows. XXHE will not play until I click away that small window 'Check Coverart' and message 'CoverartPath is empty'. This repeats for each file in so formed 'playlist'.

EDIT: Better word would be 'play cue' iof 'playlist'

The problem is fixed doing the following:

- Create a new folder.  I called it "Compilations" instead of "Playlists".  I moved all the folders containing multiple tracks under this new folder.  I no longer get the error.  Something seems to have happened in resolving file paths that this simple process fixed.  Nik: perhaps you can try this.

This is partly a comment and a question.

- For albums, there is typically an image "Folder.jpg" that is the cover art for the album.
- In "Playlist" folders, there is no cover art file.  And each file comes from a different album. How do media players find the cover art for these different tracks and albums?
- After I moved the folders, I no longer get the "CoverartPath is empty" message.  But also, I get the standard XXHE "X" cover art page when there is no cover art image.
- Playing the same files with Windows media player, the player seems to extract a cover art image even without any image file anywhere.

@briefremarks
Thanks, seems that your solution works over here as well. Loaded folder with some 89 tracks under different file path (previous one was //'Playlist/foldername') and voila, same files, different path and XXHE does not complain any more. Think Peter made some rule/limitation that triggers a.m. error.

This is easy answer: XXHE does not read so called 'file header' or at least not beyond sample rate and bit depth while most other players do read local file header or search song / album cover on internet. Several websites collect such infos: Discogs, MusicBrainz, freedb to name the few.
 

Haha. The far more easy answer is that you both use XXHE "wrongly".
In general, there are numerous ways to load tracks into the Playlist Area (numerous : could be a dozen), and copying tracks at the Windows level into a folder, is not among those. I think I have no clue what suddenly brings you both in thinkin it can work like that.
It cant'.

Nik, you conclusion that coverart is not read from the file, is correct. Mind you, for WAV this even officially can't be - or at least 15 years ago that could not be.

Anyway, one of the dozen examples : drag a track onto the PlayList area from Explorer.

N.b.: Working with (small) Galleries would be the official way to play what Tore plays. These become 'meta data" folders. Exists from day one ...

:-)