OK I think I know what's happening here with my problem. I moved all of the jpegs out of the folder which has my music tracks to a different folder. Now only the tracks which have album art embedded in them display the album art when they are played. Whew!!

I have the same or similar problem. I have a few jpegs (about 6) in the same folder as some (about 200) of my music tracks. When I play music from that folder the album art for some of the tracks show a picture of Carmen MacRae even though the artist might be Ernesto Cortazar. Every track for which album art is displayed shows the same picture of Carmen MacRae. Some tracks don't display album art. I have stored only about 4 pictures in 4 tracks in my entire library, Now even when I play a track from the above mentioned folder from say a purely instrumental group the Carmen MacRae picture is displayed.

I have looked at C:\users\myname\appData\local\temp\MM.cache.... and it contains just 2 pictures, none of which are of Carmen MacRae. How do I find out what tracks are associated with these 2 pictures?

I even changed the temp folder to something like C:\users\myname\temp - didn't do any good. (Tools > Options > general)

When I tried playing tracks from a different folder I don't have any problem with album art. Only the folder with pictures seems to cause the problem.

For what it's worth I had a similar problem with Windows Media Player - just about any track I played had the same picture.

Using Windows 7, and the latest version of MM

I had the same problem.

Wrong cover files association.

I finally found the solution.

The problem is in the cache.

By default, the cache is located in C:\Users\your_user_name\AppData\Local\Temp\ (You can verify, if it that's the case for you in Options\General\Temp Directory)

The cover arts are stored as BMP files in the subfolder MMCache1496748509_1 (at least for me; if it is not the case for you, the file name should start with the same letters)

Check that folder in your Explorer and examine it with the Thumbnails View. Find the covers that have the wrong association and delete them and restrat your MediaMonkey. I've found that is the safest way to operate so as not to dammage the MediaMonkey Database.

Should you want to add cover art, you should use an application like MP3TAG or better yet, Tag&Rename. Ther you will be able to incorporate your cover art (and much more, like the Lyrics) directly in the ID tag of the file (ID3v1 tag or whatever). That way, most audio players will be able to associate the cover arts (and lyrics) as this tagging is integrated within them.

Hope that will help you!

Cache is in the temp folder (Tools > Options > General) and you'd want to delete it to make sure. You also may want to disable scan file directories for artwork under Tools > Options > Library, but you indicated that the Artwork tab doesn't show any images, thus this isn't an issue.

Lowlander wrote:Did you clean the image cache again to make sure it isn't loaded from cache?

It didn't occur to me to think about the cache. Now that I asked myself how the image cache is managed, I noticed that both the CacheStatus and CacheName columns are empty for all those tracks.
To answer your question: I'm afraid not. I didn't think of that. I did that a few days ago, following your suggestion. the DB is a backup I made yesterday. In the past few days I didn't look at this issue, or browsed those Beatles albums. Maybe that explains it?

What are the search paths for artwork? Maybe the artwork is picked-up, in my case, because of that?
The folder structure for the mono boxset is: So, maybe, it's picking the wrong artwork for the mono albums because they're stored together like that (but not storing it in the DB!?). Then, because the mono/stereo albums share the artist/album details (but have the correct artwork assigned) conflict. And the resolution of this conflict turns up to be the wrong artwork.

What do you think?

Did you clean the image cache again to make sure it isn't loaded from cache?

I grabbed SQLiteStudio and started browsing the DB.
It appears that the the content of the artwork tab is correctly reflected in the DB. The source of the problem is, probably, some run-time computation that selects the wrong album art to be displayed (but doesn't link it to the songs in the DB).
Here are some examples.
First, I grabbed all the data about those A hard day's night track (mono and stereo) from the Songs table:
SQL query: Result: http://justpaste.it/p9o
Then, I grabbed the Covers data for those tracks from the Covers table: Result: http://justpaste.it/p9p
As you can see, only the Stereo version has covers, as I wrote above.

(returning to this issue)

As the screenshot I posted shows, I have an album (The Beatles/A hard day's night {stereo remaster}) which displays one album art but that image isn't listed on its artwork tab.
What isn't shown in that screenshot is that the other version of that album (The Beatles/A hard day's night {mono remaster}) doesn't have any(!) images listed under the artwork tab.

The content of the artwork tab, for both albums, is correct.

Hello,

I'm using version 4.0.02.1462 Gold (on a Vista 64 bit Windows Home Prem machine: Intel 9550/8gb ram) and I'm having a similar problem.

I am ripping to FLAC and adding artwork as I go. 90% of the time I'm getting the artwork from MM's Auto tag system which seems to work fine for most of the time. But when I open MM the next time some artwork isn't where it should be and another image may be there instead.

If I can't find an album through the Auto tag I will paste an image directly into MM and sometimes the image I paste wont be the image that subsequently comes up in MM.

I have checked the folders where the music is stored and the correct image is there, likewise if I check the Album Properties it also shows the correct image, but a different one is showing in MM.

I have also had instances where artwork that I have added has 'disappeared' ie I paste the image, the image appears and I watch the tagging procedure complete but when I open next time it has gone.

I didn't have these issues with the previous version.

I am slowing conquering the problem by constantly correcting the issues as they arise and sometimes the fixes stick and sometimes they don't.

Also in this version when I rip a new album the album only seems to get recognised the 'Albums' section of MM and only after I select the album does it then appear in the 'Artist' list.


Martin

Only in this case, albums with different names did, somehow, end up with the same album art.

Then, yes, same Album Artist and Album values are considered the same Album. The developers recommend using a differentiating value in the Album field like album name (stereo) album name (mono).

Now that I think of it, I don't think I saw this happening for other artists.
Maybe it's somehow related to the fact that I have both the mono and stereo remastered versions of those Beatles albums and the artist/album tags are identical for both those albums. They only differ in the comment.

I don't know, maybe a debug log (step 4b) send to support will help the developers out: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=69

Anything else I can do?
Are there any more details you'd like me to provide to figure this one out?

It's not something I've seen.