Serious Problem With Album Art in 3.2.0.1294

[Jason Dunn]

I installed MediaMonkey 3.2.0.1294 a couple of days ago on my Windows 7 system (64-bit), and after ripping a bunch of new CDs (using EAC) I started to get the metadata in order using MediaMonkey...and imagine my shock when, no matter how many ways I try it, I can't get album art to embed in the MP3 files. This was working before I upgraded to 3.2.0.1294...regardless of how I try to embed the 600x600px JPEGs, nothing actually happens to the files. MediaMonkey thinks that files have album art - I can see the album art when I'm inside MediaMonkey - but when I look at the MP3s via Windows Explorer in thumbnail view, there's no album art. Ditto for when I play the songs via Windows Media Player - no album art.

Any idea what's going on? This is a real deal-breaker for me...

[Jason Dunn]

No one else is having problems with this? Really?

I've done some more testing, and the behaviour is bizarre. When I tag an album with album art, every track, I can see MediaMonkey processing them all. Inside MediaMonkey, every track seems to have album art. But when I view the files in Windows Explorer, only one or two of the tracks have album art. Windows Media Player doesn't see the album art either. I'm totally baffled...I even tried rolling back to 3.1.1.1216, and it's not working there either, which is puzzling because I know it used to work. So how can this feature "break" on a Windows 7 system?

I've been using MediaMonkey Gold for years, and without this feature working, the program isn't of much use to me. Any ideas?

[bullmoon]

I am having similar issues with MM and Win7 now. I can no longer see any MM Tag info in Explorer nor Media Player. I have to update/rewrite the tags with dBPoweramp - for some reason dBPA can read them, and after it re-writes them, so can Win7 Explorer. I have never had this problem either until MM 3.x and Win7, so you may be correct that it is a Win7 issue. I am using dBPoweramp/Convert ID Tags to fix it - it will do an entire library in batch mode, so not a huge problem but not so great. Also having issues with Foreign characters now in WAV Tags. See my recent post below for more info.

[rovingcowboy]

what in the world do you need a 600 x 600 pixel image in the song for.?

i think that is over the file limit in size? that thing will add up to 2mbs to the song file just for the artwork.

if you need that big of file then don't save it in the art. save it with the name of the artist. but using the options in monkey to change that file name just type in <Artist> in the text line instead of folder.jpg and then don't save to tag. save to song's folder instead. and either link to it or have monkey scan the folders for artwork.

[nohitter151]

It has been working fine for me, do you have problems with other tags being read? Is it only for mp3 files?

[LBJP]

I have the same problem. Latest MM and Win 7 (32bit). However, if I sync my mp3s on a computer with XP and older MM I can see the album art fine...

[rovingcowboy]

windows 7 is so new yet. maybe searching in microsofts knowledge base for any info on image's not showing might help you. but only if they found something and was able to post it.

[bonacar]

I am also running latest version of MM on windows 7 64 bit and cannot see cover art on any of recently ripped CDs to MP3.

[nohitter151]

I am also running latest version of MM on windows 7 64 bit and cannot see cover art on any of recently ripped CDs to MP3.

Did you actually add art to any of the files? MM won't add it manually when you rip.

[rktsmshr]

THis is semi-similar to the bug I posted (also on Win7) with AAC files created from WMAs (both lossless). No tags, no art, and no joy.

[rovingcowboy]

yes but if all you win 7 users can hold on longer with this, and fix it by work arounds posted or scripts posted. when mm 4 is released it will be more suited for use with windows 7

[rktsmshr]

The script(s) were too "hands-on". After fixing about 50 of the files, it was clear I'd have a lot of manual editing, dragging, dropping, selecting, .... With 12,000+ tracks this was too daunting to take on. Would be useful if it could use the media info from the sources to copy the album art.