by Richard127 » Fri Apr 26, 2019 10:01 am
This is a tricky one to explain as it is random but is proving to be a bit of a nightmare. A few days ago, I added a few albums to MM. All looked well until I checked album artwork (I always have just 2 pieces of artwork - one attached to the album tracks and one .jpg in the folder. This shows as 2 pieces of artwork in the properties artwork dialogue) A lot (but not all) albums had extra, blank pieces of artwork. They had file location information but weren't present in the appropriate album folder. Trying to delete these files causes many different problems, including: Even more blank artwork files in the properties dialogue; Files with the appropriate artwork properly showing, but not actually present. MM says they're in a folder that it's in the exact folder structure as the real files, but with dashes instead of slashes (i.e.: E-My Music-Artist xx-Album xx, instead of E/My Music/Artist xx/Album xx. The dashed folder doesn't exist anywhere (that I can tell, anyway); sometimes, when clicking the "Apply to all selected files" box, MM adds a separate new picture file for every track on the album.
There are many other types of similar things that happen when trying to edit album artwork. However, I managed to resolve the issue with most albums by deleting them and re-adding them. There remains two albums (Loggins & Messina... Hmmnnn) that won't fix no matter what I do. I've even recorded the tracks through Audacity and changed all the tags and the artwork and added them from another drive, but MM still shows extra artwork every time, for these 2 albums. You'll see, in the second picture a folder called "/folder.jpg/ that simply doesn't exist (Yes, I have "hidden files" showing in the OS).
Apologies for the long post. I did get multiple error reports, all of which I sent through, but I didn't copy any of the error numbers, sorry.
Lastly, this only happened after update to V.2170, but I don't know if that caused the issue. All new files I add so far seem to be O.K.
I have included 2 pictures: The 1st shows the general problem that occurred.
The 2nd shows one of the final 2 albums that won't fix, no matter what I do.
This is a tricky one to explain as it is random but is proving to be a bit of a nightmare. A few days ago, I added a few albums to MM. All looked well until I checked album artwork (I always have just 2 pieces of artwork - one attached to the album tracks and one .jpg in the folder. This shows as 2 pieces of artwork in the properties artwork dialogue) A lot (but not all) albums had extra, blank pieces of artwork. They had file location information but weren't present in the appropriate album folder. Trying to delete these files causes many different problems, including: Even more blank artwork files in the properties dialogue; Files with the appropriate artwork properly showing, but not actually present. MM says they're in a folder that it's in the exact folder structure as the real files, but with dashes instead of slashes (i.e.: E-My Music-Artist xx-Album xx, instead of E/My Music/Artist xx/Album xx. The dashed folder doesn't exist anywhere (that I can tell, anyway); sometimes, when clicking the "Apply to all selected files" box, MM adds a separate new picture file for every track on the album.
There are many other types of similar things that happen when trying to edit album artwork. However, I managed to resolve the issue with most albums by deleting them and re-adding them. There remains two albums (Loggins & Messina... Hmmnnn) that won't fix no matter what I do. I've even recorded the tracks through Audacity and changed all the tags and the artwork and added them from another drive, but MM still shows extra artwork every time, for these 2 albums. You'll see, in the second picture a folder called "/folder.jpg/ that simply doesn't exist (Yes, I have "hidden files" showing in the OS).
Apologies for the long post. I did get multiple error reports, all of which I sent through, but I didn't copy any of the error numbers, sorry.
Lastly, this only happened after update to V.2170, but I don't know if that caused the issue. All new files I add so far seem to be O.K.
I have included 2 pictures: The 1st shows the general problem that occurred.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/fpjot2q.png[/img]
The 2nd shows one of the final 2 albums that won't fix, no matter what I do.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/jVT3zQE.png[/img]