Cover art question

[Fidelio]

Annoyingly, not all my albums show up in the cover art browser area. For example, all of my Pink Floyd albums are there, but only one of my Vivaldi albums. The folder structure is the same all around. Any thoughts?

[PeterSt]

Not without having insight in your folder structure. Could you please show me from both Pink Floyd (one album) and Vivaldi :
- The path to the music files (like breathe.wav)
- The path to the coverart and a file name of that (like folder.jpg)
Please start with the root (like c:\).

Peter

[Fidelio]

H:\XXHighEndMusikk\Pink Floyd\Meddle\[tracks][folder.jpg]

H:\XXHighEndMusikk\Vivaldi\Concerti e cantate\[tracks][folder.jpg]

The structure is exactly the same for all my albums. The first Vivaldi album in the Vivaldi folder is the only one showing in the cover art browser panel.

[PeterSt]

Hmm ... With "coverart browser", you mean the ritghmost pane (of three) ? if so, you know you must click an album in the middle pane first ?

But assumed you mean the middle pane :
What I discovered myself the other day, is that -because of the proper determination of the structure as a whole (and thinking of multi volume albums), you should have at least *two* folders above the album folder. Like :

H:\XXHighEndMusikk\Classical\Vivaldi\[albumname]\tracks
H:\XXHighEndMusikk\Rock\Pink Floyd\[albumname]\tracks

Now, in order to be right on this, you should be able to find the folder.jpg from the Vivaldi album in the root of H:\ or in H:\XXHighEndMusikk\ (which you then have put there by accident). There is a small possibility that if you remove that folder.jpg which shouldn't be there, all works already, but I don't think so.

Please let me know what happens and take into account I could be doing something wrong (ah, you did that already ).
Peter


PS: With

H:\XXHighEndMusikk\Rock\Pink Floyd\The Wall\CD1\tracks
H:\XXHighEndMusikk\Rock\Pink Floyd\The Wall\CD2\tracks

the folder.jpg is allowed to be (and searched for) in

H:\XXHighEndMusikk\Rock\Pink Floyd\The Wall\folder.jpg
and it works for both the volumes (CD1 and CD2).

Or with

H:\XXHighEndMusikk\Vivaldi\Concerti e cantate\[tracks]

the folder.jpg (btw etc. etc.) is looked for in

H:\XXHighEndMusikk\Vivaldi\Concerti e cantate\[coverartfolder]

[Fidelio]

I mean the middle pane. No matter what I do, I can't get all my albums to show up there. Additionally, there is no specific pattern as to which albums that do show up and which ones don't. All my Lenny Kravitz are there, all but one Pink Floyd, only one Vivaldi etc.

Do you mean that if I have two folders above tha album folder, it will show all the albums in the middle pane?

[PeterSt]

Yes, that is what I meanT. Now I am even more puzzled, because now (if I understand you correctly) you say that more can show up, and not only that one Vivaldi. So, now it cannot be so anymore that it finds that folder.jgp from Vivaldi which is abusively somewhere else ...

But I would still stuff an additional folder above your XXHighEndMusikk, just to test. If that doesn't help, well, I'll kind of drop dead.

Btw, I just thought of something else. Are you sure your coverart files are called folder.jpg ? and not folder.jpg.jpg ? That would happen if you have renamed them without the extension being visible (Explorer setting). Then you now see folder.jpg, but it *is* folder.jpg.jpg.
Switch on the showing of all extensions to judge this, or go to a Dos box and look from there.

[Fidelio]

Yes, all the Vivaldi albums show up if I choose Vivaldi in the browser pane on the left side, but not if I choose the entire XXHighEnd library folder.
All are folder.jpg and none have double filetag.

I just stuffed all the music into genre folders, and all is well - at least when I click a genre folder.

[PeterSt]

Ok. Good. Now I'll try to build in something that should prevent a next user from having this anomaly (which probably comes down to checking whether there are at least two folders above the album folder).