Is there a way to rescan/re-set all default album art?
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 9:16 am
I finally went through and got some of my missing artwork for albums. I manually downloaded/scanned personal, high quality versions for hours and added the artwork directly into the album folders. In my settings, I have "Update tags when editing properties" checked and the Artwork settings set to "save image to file folder." Yet the updated/new artwork isn't showing up in my library. Right clicking the album (or each track in the album) shows that the artwork is indeed there, and if I click the "Apply to all selected," then it updates, but is there a way to just do that for everything in the library?
Also the naming of the album art isn't working, I think. I have the image filename set as simply "<Album>" but it's naming them all the entire directory name up to that album. So instead of "Cold Spring Harbor," the artwork is now called "M--Music-Billy Joel-1971-11-01 - Cold Spring Harbor-cover.png" instead of just "cover.png," as I added it to the folder. So it's renaming the file the directory path AND it's not even renaming it, it's just added it to the beginning of the original filename?
EDIT: I don't understand this at all. Last time I did this was probably MM4, but I thought I just added artwork to the folder and it showed. And when there were multiple files, I could just move the "cover" to the top of the list and that's what showed. Now moving any artwork renames that one, plus it's not updating in the Grid (By Album) view, now? Like I just moved the cover to the top of the list, and in the Preview pane, it's the correct cover art, but on the cover in the Grid view, it's still the old one.
EDIT2: Okay, so for the last part, all that weirdness only happens when attempting to edit the artwork in Grid (By Album) view. So that's.. solved? I don't know why all that is happening. I also noticed another issue now, somewhat related. Over the years I've been working on changing my albums "date" tag to "YYYY-MM-DD" from just "YYYY." After that, I auto-re-organize the music, because my folder structure is: Music/Artist/Year-Album. When I do that, MM properly moves the artwork to the new folder, but keeps a bunch of dead artwork tags on each file pointing to the old location. So I now have thousands and thousands of empty artwork tags pointing to old folders? Okay, so a TL:DR-
1 - Is there a way to batch update "default" artwork when it's all saved to files?
2 - Why does the Grid (By Album) view not display changes to the artwork that are indeed displayed properly in the Preview pane? I've tried restarting MM and doing a full database rebuild/optimize. And why does editing artwork (applying changes or simply moving the order) not work in that view the same way it does in the list view?
3 - Moving a folder (and artwork files) should remove the tag to the old location of the artwork. And consequently, is there any way to batch remove dead artwork links/tags?
Also the naming of the album art isn't working, I think. I have the image filename set as simply "<Album>" but it's naming them all the entire directory name up to that album. So instead of "Cold Spring Harbor," the artwork is now called "M--Music-Billy Joel-1971-11-01 - Cold Spring Harbor-cover.png" instead of just "cover.png," as I added it to the folder. So it's renaming the file the directory path AND it's not even renaming it, it's just added it to the beginning of the original filename?
EDIT: I don't understand this at all. Last time I did this was probably MM4, but I thought I just added artwork to the folder and it showed. And when there were multiple files, I could just move the "cover" to the top of the list and that's what showed. Now moving any artwork renames that one, plus it's not updating in the Grid (By Album) view, now? Like I just moved the cover to the top of the list, and in the Preview pane, it's the correct cover art, but on the cover in the Grid view, it's still the old one.
EDIT2: Okay, so for the last part, all that weirdness only happens when attempting to edit the artwork in Grid (By Album) view. So that's.. solved? I don't know why all that is happening. I also noticed another issue now, somewhat related. Over the years I've been working on changing my albums "date" tag to "YYYY-MM-DD" from just "YYYY." After that, I auto-re-organize the music, because my folder structure is: Music/Artist/Year-Album. When I do that, MM properly moves the artwork to the new folder, but keeps a bunch of dead artwork tags on each file pointing to the old location. So I now have thousands and thousands of empty artwork tags pointing to old folders? Okay, so a TL:DR-
1 - Is there a way to batch update "default" artwork when it's all saved to files?
2 - Why does the Grid (By Album) view not display changes to the artwork that are indeed displayed properly in the Preview pane? I've tried restarting MM and doing a full database rebuild/optimize. And why does editing artwork (applying changes or simply moving the order) not work in that view the same way it does in the list view?
3 - Moving a folder (and artwork files) should remove the tag to the old location of the artwork. And consequently, is there any way to batch remove dead artwork links/tags?