I still can't replicate.

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As you can see in a grid the album art is shown. While in properties, Now playing album art - it is not. And the album was found in Files to edit->unknown artwork

If there is no artwork why is it shown in one view? (not a question for a reason - but a request to fix)


I am on MM4 build ...45[/quote]
The art for the list view is cached in the MediaMonkey Temp folder. Temp folder is configurable at Options > General

Same here. No picture in the Show Album Art window. Picture in the small window next to the Play button and stuff. This while there is only one picture in the Album Art properties nicely put as front cover as well. How come MM does not show the Album Art which accordign to itself is unmstakably there??

And for some of my music album alt has disappeared (dunno at what moment exactly). So I jump to other inconsistency:

[img]http://i54.tinypic.com/119biqb.jpg[/img]


As you can see in a grid the album art is shown. While in properties, Now playing album art - it is not. And the album was found in Files to edit->unknown artwork

If there is no artwork why is it shown in one view? (not a question for a reason - but a request to fix)


I am on MM4 build ...45

I have a similar problem - suddenly some of my album art has disappeared from the files. When I check the properties of some albums, there is no longer any album art associated with it, although previously it was. Not sure when it happened and it seems to affect about 20% of my library.

When I look under Files to Edit > Unknown Album Art none of the albums with missing album art appear here. Same with the Tagging Inconsistencies script - it doesn't seem to find the albums with missing art.

Any suggestions on how to track down all the albums that (mysteriously) lost their artwork? And how to prevent it from happening again?

I've noticed this as well when I was updating much of the album art in my library. It is as if the cache doesn't update very easily. The workaround I used was to simply delete the cache and let MM rebuild it.

Did you change the images outside of MediaMonkey?

MM stores then cache of Album Art wrong.

For example:
Left picture - currently playing. Right at the button - Arbum Art Grid Viewer. The quality in the viewer is from older picture.
[img]http://i53.tinypic.com/29lzm7q.jpg[/img]


Old picture in the Grid viewer, when there is actually a newer picture there (after computer restart - same error).
[img]http://i53.tinypic.com/2iu3yxj.jpg[/img]


Shows the picture in the Grid, when there is no picture at all on the selected tracks.
[img]http://i52.tinypic.com/5yrr0g.jpg[/img]

With similar problems in MM4. Where the Matrix is shown without Album in Grid Viewer (to the right):
[img]http://i52.tinypic.com/2yy1sh2.jpg[/img]

MM stores the cached art files for the album art views in the temp folder defined in the options. (Options > General)

[quote="nohitter151"]I wonder if it has something to do with Vista/Win 7 and account permissions or if this appears on XP too.[/quote]

I have Win 7 Ultimate with all admin rights and all permissions set to the lowest level (less security).

If it has been caused by Win 7 account permissions - I would expect it to be more consistent - that the picture which does not show up, won't be displayed also after the refresh. Because of this inconsistency - I think it is MM interpretation only.


Also I found that in [b]MM 4 [/b]the problem still exists. Though the album art is rendered a little quicker, not for all albums consistently. Also it is rendered 'several times' - I can see the screen (MM app) blinking [b]2-3 times[/b], when the art is rendered. My expectation would be - it should blink not more than once, if at all.

Also I found that in both MM3 and MM4 at least one of my album arts shown with a [b]lower resolution in the mian view screen than the picture in Album Art viewer[/b].
I am very convinced, that the issue with album art is caused by the way MM stores the pictures. Where does it store the pictures for already identified album art.


I hope that this Bug can be caught by MM4 Beta testers.
I can't stand MM4 anymore - it crashes too often, and my currently very favorite skin is not supported, and some GUI glitches (made screenshots, going to post in other thread).

I had it on Vista when I originally created this post, now also on Win 7 64.

I wonder if it has something to do with Vista/Win 7 and account permissions or if this appears on XP too.

Others have reported issue too, but I haven't seen this either. Even my old machine over the network works fairly fast.

I'd suggest creating a debug log, it might show why it fails to show the Album Art in the first view: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=69

Weird, I cannot reproduce this problem. My art always appears in the art views. I wonder what is different in our setups to account for this.

It is still sometimes VERY frustrating (my playback selection is based on covers - much faster to decide what to listen to.)

Also the image generation is pretty slow (one after another, pausing for second or 2 sometimes), even though the tracks/album art has not been changed.

AND even after waiting until MM generates Album view IT DOES NOT SHOW THEM.

1st time:
[url=http://c.imagehost.org/view/0216/screenshot_14][img]http://c.imagehost.org/t/0216/screenshot_14.jpg[/img][/url]
After 3d refresh (yes, it does not work sometimes even on the first refresh.)
[url=http://c.imagehost.org/view/0200/screenshot_15][img]http://c.imagehost.org/t/0200/screenshot_15.jpg[/img][/url]
4th refresh: (that is how it should be).
[url=http://c.imagehost.org/view/0795/screenshot_16][img]http://c.imagehost.org/t/0795/screenshot_16.jpg[/img][/url]