I think process 7 on my Album Art Tagger script would do this.

Any chance of getting a script that automatically removes the missing link? I was an idiot a couple of months ago and tried to use Windows Media Player for external access to my music collection. Of course it conveniently started to create all of those damn .jpg files. I've since cleaned up the files, but now have over 20,000 songs with missing links. It'll take me forever to clean them up.

TIA,
MPG

Never Mind, checked your Album Art Script. Does exactly what I need. Should have known better.

This script is not checking to see which tracks do not have any artwork, it's checking for tracks which do have artwork, but the tags are pointing to an external image which does not exist. In other words, it's checking for broken artwork links. This is why it has to loop through all the tracks, in order to check all the artwork.

Looking at the script, it may be possible to improve the performance by only looping through tracks which have artwork, but I'd have to re-check the database structure, as I can't remember what is available off the top of my head.

This script doesn't update any information in the database, it just stores the report in location memory, which is why it has to start again if MM is closed. Again, it could be modified to create a new table in the database, or something like that, so that the report persists. The problem with that is that it could become out of date, so you'd need to remember to run the report again for it to be accurate.

Sometime during the night around 130K (15K to go) the process locked up. MMW would not respond at all and I had to Task to kill. Last time something bad didn't happen until after the run completed and it was trying to display.

Is this still under support/development? I wonder because last post was 2008.

I originally posted this in the beta section as I had forgotten I ever loaded this addon and thought there might be a problem with the newest beta ... below is the original text. I am now at 125497/145556 and it is 10 hours later.
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2 Questions about 'Missing Artwork' in 'Files to Edit'

Postby dtsig » Wed Jul 31, 2013 8:33 am
I am doing this on current beta, 1651, and so am posting here instead of the regular help section. I don't have std version to test against.

I clicked on Music/Files to Edit/Missing Album Art and it came up with a message that I have to run create reports ... so i did.

1) when it runs it actually counts each track on the bottom of the screen. I have 145K + tracks and this takes a really really long time. Why doesn't it do a simple SQL query to get the count of tracks without artwork. There is a 'Covers' table and I would think that that table would have this information. Why not seconds instead of HOURS?

2) When the process completed I asked me if i wanted to see the report. I clicked YES and it then sat there for a while (10-15 minutes) and crashed. I sent the report. But much to my surprise when I restarted MMW and went to Edit/Missing Album Art it said I had to run the report again. Why is this??? I would think that at the time it asked if i wanted to see the report the info would have been saved.

New version (2.0) is now available to download from my website. This version is now compatible with MM3.

Lol!

You can suggest it!

May I suggest a name change to "Missing Album Art Link".

Sorry, this one appears to have fallen off my list! I'll try to get it updated for MM3 soon.

Just realized the power of Nodes today and this is the first thing I went out to search for... any chance of an update soon? Or is there some other solution that will do the same in Magic Nodes?
I looked throught the treads for Magic Nodes and didn't see anything.

Ok, i'll try that script!
"Remove artwork which is invalid" should be the right option to remove missing art entries from the tags, right?

It's on my list of scripts to update. To remove artwork tags in batch try my "Album Art Tagger" script.

Is there going to be an update for MM3?

And is there a way to remove missing artwork entries from the tags instead of doing it album by album?

It checks the tags of the tracks for an external image, in which case the tag contains a filename. The script then checks if the file in this location exists or not.

To embed all your artwork in one go you could try my Album Art Tagger script.