Thread: How do album covers work for MP3

Originally Posted by AlienEclipse

Try changing the attribute of the jpg to NOT hidden.

Hey, I didn't even notice that . . . Thanks! I'm testing now . . .

Originally Posted by AlienEclipse

Try changing the attribute of the jpg to NOT hidden.

Thanks for everyone's input on this one . . .

You won't believe this! I went to set the .jpg attributes from Hidden to unhidden and the box was "grayed out" so I couldn't make the change. I thought it was a permissions issue (even though I have full admin rights on my local domain as well as on my PC) but resetting the permissions did no good. Using the Attrib tool, I finally realized that Microsoft automatically sets these .jpg files as "hidden" and as "system" files. I removed both of these attributes and now it works in MediaCar. What the *!#* was MS thinking by doing this!

Anyone know of a good tool I can use to change attributes on every file in a directory and its subdirectories recursively as well as rename these .jpg files to the same name as the parent folder? I'm now thinking that I may just need to write some kind of script. Input is very welcome.

Originally Posted by coyote

I didn't notice that also

Coyote:

Any chance that MediaCar could support a different naming convention for the album art when .wma files are found in the directory (i.e. use the .jpg file that follows this naming convention: AlbumArt*Large.jpg)?

I figured out how to set the permissions on the .jpg files recursively by using this command from the command prompt:

attrib *.jpg -s -h /s

The command resets the attributes on every .jpg file in every subdirectory of the one it is started in . . .

Thanks!

Originally Posted by burner

Thanks for everyone's input on this one . . .
Anyone know of a good tool I can use to change attributes on every file in a directory and its subdirectories recursively as well as rename these .jpg files to the same name as the parent folder? I'm now thinking that I may just need to write some kind of script. Input is very welcome.

Go to a command prompt and type:

attrib -H c:\music\*.jpg /S

This will remove the hidden attribute for all jpg files in music and all sub folders also (assuming they are in c:\music)

That should do the trick.

Originally Posted by coyote

I have just changed to using also hiden files thus it's not necessary to change this attribute

I will also add parameters to use different file name convention

You are awesome! Thank you VERY much!