Background: Last night I was using MM to tag albums (and tracks) with Album Art from Amazon. MM was very sluggish so I decided to close down and restart.
Probelm: When I closed MM a dialog box with the message "Background process is curretnly running...." popped up. It's the first time I've ever received this message in MM. Does anyone know what this is?
Background Process?
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Background processes include auto-organise, file scanning, ..... anything which brings up a progress bar at the bottom of the screen. It is possible if you were editing tags that the message "# tracks to be tagged" was visible in the bottom right hand corner, as the files themselves were still being updated.
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I didn't even look at the bottom right hand corner. That was probably it. Since you're obviously very knowledgable about MM and digital music in general, a couple of other questions:
(1) As I mentioned in my post, MM was also running very sluggish - it was taking several seconds to tag the files with the Album Art from Amazon. This used to work very quickly. Any ideas why this could be? Is it something in 2.5?
(2) For whatever reason, MM will not recognize my Album Art (the .jpg files are stored in the Album folders). Therefore I'm writing the album art to the tags for each album (and file) individually (I've got over 1000 albums). Any suggestions on how to do this quicker, ie. some sort of Batch tagging?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
(1) As I mentioned in my post, MM was also running very sluggish - it was taking several seconds to tag the files with the Album Art from Amazon. This used to work very quickly. Any ideas why this could be? Is it something in 2.5?
(2) For whatever reason, MM will not recognize my Album Art (the .jpg files are stored in the Album folders). Therefore I'm writing the album art to the tags for each album (and file) individually (I've got over 1000 albums). Any suggestions on how to do this quicker, ie. some sort of Batch tagging?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
I am only knowledgable in MM by reading these forums, and lots of personal trial and error! You flatter me! 
1) Adding the images to the files takes a lot longer than having a separate image file and a link to it in each file. This is because more data needs to be written to each file.
2) You could probably write a script which recursed through your folders, adding any images found in the folder to all the tracks in the folder. But MM should really be doing this for you when you rescan a folder into the library. Are all your album names the same for each track in the album folder?
1) Adding the images to the files takes a lot longer than having a separate image file and a link to it in each file. This is because more data needs to be written to each file.
2) You could probably write a script which recursed through your folders, adding any images found in the folder to all the tracks in the folder. But MM should really be doing this for you when you rescan a folder into the library. Are all your album names the same for each track in the album folder?
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If that's the reason why the album art sometimes isn't added (yes), thenAre all your album names the same for each track in the album folder?
MediaMonkey would better give a notice that it didn't add some album's art because there is an inconsistency in the album tagging.
(I just felt like to put a little wish here)
Cheers
Steegy
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trixmoto - yes, all the album names are the same for all the tracks in that album folder. I'm not sure why MM isn't doing this - I've searched the forum and from what I understand, what I have should work fine. Oh well. I guess one thing I could do is delete all my tracks from the library and rescan. I did this a couple of months ago and it dodn't work. But maybe with 2.5. What do you think?
It is a possibility that doing a clean rescan might work. Maybe you should do this with a debug version and then if it doesn't work you can send the log to the MM team, see if they can figure out why it's not working.
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I did a rescan and it did not work. I also checked something that I should have checked originally - the file properties of the folder.jpg file. It looks like the file is hidden however there is no way to unhide it (at least that I can figure out). The "Hide" box is checked but grayed out so you are not able to deselect it. I will probably have to tag all the albums manually. 
Yes, hidden or read-only files will not be assigned (I knew that and should have thought of it first!) It's strange that you can't un-hide them though 
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Hello
To unhide files, you can use an easy "dos" command:
attrib -h /s c:\mymusic
That unhides all files in the folder mymusic and all it's subfolders. If you don't want all files to be unhided, you can also use a mask (e.g. *.jpg )
The recommended way to use this:
Windows Start > Run : "cmd"
then type the command in the prompt and press <enter>.
(In the case that these files are system files (probably from WMP), you should use attrib -s -h /s c:\mymusic)
More syntax information on attrib /?
Cheers
Steegy
To unhide files, you can use an easy "dos" command:
attrib -h /s c:\mymusic
That unhides all files in the folder mymusic and all it's subfolders. If you don't want all files to be unhided, you can also use a mask (e.g. *.jpg )
The recommended way to use this:
Windows Start > Run : "cmd"
then type the command in the prompt and press <enter>.
(In the case that these files are system files (probably from WMP), you should use attrib -s -h /s c:\mymusic)
More syntax information on attrib /?
Cheers
Steegy
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