Anybody Else Having Issues with Missing Album Art When Browsing Albums in 1.6?

kbreeden · 03-10-2006, 10:36 AM

I'm having a strange problem with missing album art in 1.6 and am wondering if anyone's experiencing the same thing.

Symptom:

When browsing albums the album art for about four percent of the albums does not show up. For those albums, all I get is a black space with the name of the album beneath it.

Observations:

- If I click on the black space and hit play, the album plays but the artwork from the song that was playing previously remains in the visualization box.

- if I search for the album whose art is not displaying using the search feature, the album art for the album shows up on the results screen (this confirms that it's a valid folder.jpg file). If I then hit play to play the album, the album plays but the visualization box shows just a black screen.

- if I search for the artist whose album it is the album art does not show up on the results screen.

- If I do a library rebuild the same artwork does not display

- I have duplicate music files on my carputer and desktop and the same artwork does not display on each.

- I did not have this issue in CF 1.5 and most of the albums I'm having trouble with existed on my machine during my use of 1.5.

Troubleshooting Efforts:

- I have verified that all albums contain valid artwork in jpg format and named folder.jpg

- I have replaced the non-working folder.jpgs with folder.jpgs from albums whose art does work and experience the same issue with the substituted files.

Anybody having the same problem? Any ideas?

bishooman · 03-10-2006, 03:42 PM

same problem here

DaveTN · 03-10-2006, 04:51 PM

ditto

kbreeden · 03-10-2006, 07:34 PM

Only 2 others? Better yet, is there anybody who is not having this problem?

andy@ukcars · 03-10-2006, 09:00 PM

I'm also having this problem.

buurin · 03-10-2006, 09:48 PM

Me too.. I'm also missing albums..

I see the albums if i go "Library->Music Paths"... but when I play the music it lists as unknown artist... these songs worked in 1.5..

RPM_VR4 · 03-11-2006, 04:59 AM

I suspect it is due to him now supporting album art in ID3. I would try using a utility to remove all album art from ID3 tags if you use the old folder.jpg way.

kbreeden · 03-11-2006, 07:27 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by RPM_VR4

I suspect it is due to him now supporting album art in ID3. I would try using a utility to remove all album art from ID3 tags if you use the old folder.jpg way.

I don't think that's it. First, I don't think CF yet supports album art ID3. I think David said he will look into it. Second, I don't have album art in any of my ID3 tags.

veetid · 03-11-2006, 08:40 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by kbreeden

I don't think that's it. First, I don't think CF yet supports album art ID3. I think David said he will look into it. Second, I don't have album art in any of my ID3 tags.

1.6 does support reading album art from the file....

david

ShawJohn · 03-11-2006, 08:50 AM

any fix yet?

camsgs3 · 03-11-2006, 10:32 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by buurin

I see the albums if i go "Library->Music Paths"... but when I play the music it lists as unknown artist... these songs worked in 1.5..

Me too but they dont even show up as unknown..i seee them and they play fine in library-music path....tagged right too......but when i go to "Artist-Guns N Roses" I get nothing...i even tried clicking play on one of the boxes and i get playlist is empty

camsgs3 · 03-11-2006, 10:33 AM

Album View...

camsgs3 · 03-11-2006, 10:59 AM

David i think I figured out the missin albums bug..
For some reason when a ablum or atrist has a ['] in it it wont show in CF

For example Guns N' Roses i have in the pic, put when i changed the tag to Guns N Roses, it showed up..

kbreeden · 03-11-2006, 11:25 AM

Yes, the apostrophe is the problem with the "playlist is empty" issue. I posted that a couple of days ago in the media bugs thread. That's a separate issue from the missing album art, however. I've tried everything to isolate that problem without success.

veetid · 03-11-2006, 06:14 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by kbreeden

Yes, the apostrophe is the problem with the "playlist is empty" issue. I posted that a couple of days ago in the media bugs thread. That's a separate issue from the missing album art, however. I've tried everything to isolate that problem without success.

The problems are tied together... It's a bug and will be fixed...

david

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