Using the instructions at: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 38#p202028 did seem to fix my iphone album art problem on my iphone!

IPOD Touch. MM 3.0.7.1191. Itunes 8.10.52 per MM-Wiki guide. Windows XP sv 2

I crashed my laptop and have had to rebuild settings. Music is on a detachable drive and okay.
Had downloaded the latest version of Itunes and MM. Had to reset the IPOD and lost everything.
I have no games, no podcasts, or movies. I do have some photos on the IPOD and some photos as album art.
Resync with MM. I noticed the Ipod had bizzare artwork. The art in the album properties look fine in the music folder and on the IPOD, except when the music is playing.

Per MM-Wiki guide (suggested in a post, thank you),I un-installed newest Itunes and went back to older Itunes. Reset the Ipod. Did the MM sync. I still have the bizarre corrupted album art throughout my music. Not all, but most of the time.

Today, I think I will go through all the album art and remove the personal photos. If I do this in the music folder, how do I sync the changes to the IPOD? Do a regular sync?
Any more suggestions? thanks.

Follow up. I tried everything. Twice. Finally, I reset the IPOD and resorted to the sync with Itunes. That did work, but it stopped half-way through. There was a corrupt music file so it would not continue. I fixed that and reset and re-sync. Music and album art and photos are all working fine. I may do later file management with MM but after a week of trial and error, I am just happy it is working.

I get the corruption without syncing podcasts, photos or anything other than music with MediaMonkey. I'll see if it's the high-res album art causing the problem. Though if it were it would not be an acceptable solution to me to make everything smaller. I love having nice-looking high-res art to play in a big pane with MediaMonkey.

I download all my audio podcasts through MM. I haven't had a problem recently except that a podcast is only able to have a single graphic for all episodes, even when each episode is published with a unique graphic.

I do sometimes download video podcasts through iTunes on my computer, or on the Touch via wifi. I'll be glad when MM is able to handle video files.

I'm not going to remove podcasts since that's what I listen to most of the time.

Tim

Apple adds some bizarre metadata to their podcasts, which of course is proprietary. I think that's the problem: extra metadata that MM doesn't understand.

Let me know if it works. But for me, deleting mp3's with corrupted artwork, along with *any* podcast downloaded with Apple software, has so far handled the problem.

I guess syncing podcasts like a regular mp3 is the way to go.

Jest, I think you might be onto something. Because that would go along with my experience—itunes didn't have a chance to do a scan for gapless playback of the MM tracks that I'd synced to my touch, but I did have video podcasts on the device (they were restored when I restored my touch). And, to give this idea more backing, my videos podcasts (that I sync using itunes) were all removed recently, and since then all my album art has been looking fine.

I've been having trouble with this too.

When I 1st started using MM, the artwork worked fine with regular mp3's.

But I think it has something to do with podcasts. The album art synced fine before I downloaded podcasts with artwork from iTunes via wifi. After that, I started having problems.

On a whim, I deleted all of the iTunes podcasts from my Touch, and the artwork has been fine since.

nohitter, hate to play devils advocate, but I just experienced the same thing and came to the opposite conclusion:

Due to a misunderstanding on my part that iTunes needs to be installed for MM to recognize my iPod Touch, I uninstalled iTunes and woke up one morning to find that my Touch did not sync with MM, but in the process erased ALL the content from the iPod. Shortly after that the iPod crashed and I had to wipe EVERYTHING off the iPod, including the apps, etc. So I just recently had the opportunity to start clean.

I did do a restore on my Touch, which brought back my apps, my settings, contacts, my calendar and my photos. The Touch still had no other content: no movies, no videos, no music, no podcasts. It is a 16 GB iPod, and it was saying it had over 15 GB of free space.

I then went to MM to sync with music and podcasts. Without bringing it back to iTunes (so the content from MM never went through a "gapless playback" scan), there were quite a few songs that had mixed up album art; not just the wrong album, but the album was scrambled. And it wasn't due to conversion (which I do have set on MM), because some songs I just recently bought from Amazon were scrambled, and they are in MP3 format so there is no need to convert. It seems most of the time it shows a scrambled album art from a podcast; I can't recall if it ever has shown the album cover from another music album. But there is some consistency to it: if a track shows incorrect/scrambled album art, all the tracks from the same album show the same incorrect/scrambled album art.

One REALLY odd thing: One of the songs showed a scrambled album art from a podcast, but when I "flipped" the album art to view the track list and ratings of the album, the tiny thumbnail in the upper right was DIFFERENT than the scrambled album art that displays when showing the album art full screen. Full screen is was a scrambled podcast album, but when flipped and showing as a tiny thumbnail is was an unscrambled/normal thumbnail of an Ani Difranco album---but I was listening to They Might Be Giants.

So, from my experience, I don't think the gapless playback in iTunes is the culprit, as I never gave iTunes the chance to do a gapless playback scan and got scrambled/incorrect album covers none the less.

I'm wondering if it doesn't have to do with storing photos on my Touch. Seems as soon as I started syncing photos (using iTunes naturally) that I started to have album art issues on my Touch. But maybe that's just my imagination.

CraigMcI wrote:

nohitter151 wrote:I can't say that I've ever seen iTunes calculating anything, though.

It's sneaksy like that.

I'll cross my fingers for your retry.

Well, I retried exactly as before (except I was sure not to open iTunes) and all of the art is fine.

So, looks like iTunes is indeed the culprit.

nohitter151 wrote:I can't say that I've ever seen iTunes calculating anything, though.

It's sneaksy like that.

I'll cross my fingers for your retry.

CraigMcI wrote:I have also deselected soundcheck in iTunes, it still runs the gapless playback check when I connect my ipod and itunes is open.
Don't know why.

Well, I'm going to try deleting everything from the phone and resyncing with MM, not opening itunes at all. that should rule out if itunes is causing it or not.

I can't say that I've ever seen iTunes calculating anything, though.

Hi!

CraigMcI wrote:I have also deselected soundcheck in iTunes, it still runs the gapless playback check when I connect my ipod and itunes is open.
Don't know why.

I'm in the same situation (souncheck disabled but gapless still runs as I connect my iPod), but I think they are two different process:
souncheck is used to check the track volume, gapless playback (I think) checks the length of the track and search for silence at the start/end.

Ciaooo
Sakya

I have also deselected soundcheck in iTunes, it still runs the gapless playback check when I connect my ipod and itunes is open.
Don't know why.

sakya wrote:
btw the problem seem to be also related to the "gapless" calculation made by iTunes

Yes, that's a known issue: http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/inde ... icleid=107

But, I think my problem is not related to that. I have not enabled soundcheck in itunes.

Hi!

nohitter151 wrote:@all experiencing these problems -- do you use auto-conversion?

I never used auto-conversion, my MP3 are converted with different tools , but the problem seems random.
I can transfer an album and get corrupted album art, retransfer it and find the album art ok, transfer another album and get corrupted album art on the album which was present on the iPod and displaying fine...

btw the problem seem to be also related to the "gapless" calculation made by iTunes: I transfered a lot of music with SharePod without any problem (all album art ok), than I opened iTunes and after the "Determining Gapless Playback" the album art were corrupted in the album list, but fine when playing a track.

Ciaooo
Sakya