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Why only some album art showing? [Corrupted thumbnails: #21258]

Post by nickaelliott »

Hi
Pretty much all my music has album art. But when I view the library as a Grid (by Album), only a few album covers are shown. Why is that?

In the image, I have clicked on an album and its art is shown in the Selected box, so why isn't it shown in the grid?

Thx!

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Re: Why only some album art showing?

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Which Build (Help > About) of MediaMonkey are you using?
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Re: Why only some album art showing?

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Sorry - I forgot to include that.

5.0.5.2695 with a lifetime Gold licence.
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Re: Why only some album art showing?

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Please try the latest MediaMonkey 2024 build as it has improvements in this area. Does that resolve the problem?
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Re: Why only some album art showing?

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No - exactly the same behaviour.
Just a handful of the albums show their cover art in the grid view, but all of them when clicked show their art in the selected pane. I can't work out what the difference is between the files that do and those that don't.
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Re: Why only some album art showing?

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This is on build 3059? Does F5 help to reload Artwork?
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Re: Why only some album art showing?

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Yes - 3059.

Pressing F5 has no discernible effect.
I should say it has been like this for years. I presume there is something special about the way I've ripped or stored the art on those albums that do show, but I can't see what. It seems the ones that are showing art are my more recent additions though, so is it perhaps that albums ripped by previous versions of MM, or where previous versions of MM were used to attach the album art, are incompatible? Is there a way to check?

Having said that, if I use the current 2024 version to attach album art to an existing album which doesn't show in the grid, the jpgs in the folder are updated, but it still doesn't show in the grid display.
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Re: Why only some album art showing?

Post by Lowlander »

You could try to delete the AlbumImages folder (or just rename it for now) in the MediaMonkey Temp folder (set under Tools > Options > General), then start MediaMonkey and see if that creates the Artworks in the Filelisting.

Also verify that the correct Artwork is listed as the first Artwork on all files on the Albums.
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Re: Why only some album art showing?

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So - am I looking for a folder named "Albumimages", within MediaMonkey, within the temp folder? There isn't one there. I only have Previews and VirtualCD, both of which are empty.

How would I verify the correct Artwork is listed as the first Artwork on all files on the Albums?
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Re: Why only some album art showing?

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Try this in File Explorer address bar: %APPDATA%\MediaMonkey5\MetadataCache\
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Re: Why only some album art showing?

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Windows can't find 'C:\Users\****\AppData\Roaming\MediaMonkey5\MetadataCache\'
Check the spelling and try again.
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Re: Why only some album art showing?

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Do you have a regular or Portable Install of MediaMonkey 2024?
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Re: Why only some album art showing?

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Regular, as far as I know. The library itself is on a NAS, but I think the install is standard.
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Re: Why only some album art showing?

Post by nickaelliott »

Any other ideas? I am not sure what else to try.
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Re: Why only some album art showing?

Post by Rob_S »

Lowlander, my normal 2024 RC3 installation also does not find such a folder as above

I do have the following

AppData\Roaming\MediaMonkey5\Thumbs - which contains hundreds of thumbnails

and

AppData\Roaming\MediaMonkey5\ArtistImages - which contains a lesser number of artist images.

Would clearing either of the above help at all?

I believe there used to be some thumbnails kept in temp folder, but no longer?
Using V2024 LATEST alpha or beta build on Windows 11, HP laptop, managing 13k tracks
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