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Bug Reports / Re: New artwork preference "link to the source picture" changed on restart
« on: September 21, 2022, 03:37:45 AM »so your library is auto-organised?No. All music files and artwork is organized outside of MusicBee. Only after I have all the files in the correct folder do I click Insert to Scan Folders for New Files to import into MusicBee.
I never embed the artwork, always link to the original picture file.
and your test involved changing tags such that the file being edited caused MB to move the music file to a new folder...
No, nothing is moved to a new folder. The file cover.jpg (or front.jpg) is copied to musicbee_redundant_copy.jpg in the same folder as the original cover. The primary picture for only the edited track is changed to the new copy. The other music files in that folder retain the original artwork file.
Here's the whole workflow including initial entry into MusicBee:
Insert (Scan Folder for New Files), Choose Folders...
Check the folder containing the music files and artwork for the new album. OK.
Destination is set to add to inbox. Proceed. Check that it looks correct.
Send To -> Music Library.
Sometime (could be months) later, while playing the album notice that a track title needs a change.
Right click track -> Edit, change track title. Save.
It's at this point that MusicBee sometimes copies the artwork and reassigns the new copy to the one track. There's no change visually, so you don't know this has happened.
Months later, decide to do some edit for the whole album. Right click album, Edit.
Artwork shows as "Mixed" because one track has a different file set as the primary picture.
So I'd like an artwork preference that is implemented like this:
MusicBee never copies or renames any of my artwork files.
When I edit track name or any other tag or any other info for a track, the artwork file for that track is not changed, unless I explicitly change it.