Author Topic: Rotating cover art. Image 1 blank; Image 2 fine on currently playing tracks  (Read 7530 times)

EvilPeppard

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When playing a song in MB, the song initially starts with no cover art displayed. Then, after a few moments the correct album art image shows up. A few moments later it disappears. This cycle continues with every song. I currently am using MB version 2.4.5198 (a patched version of 2.3 that addresses some player control issues outlined here: http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=12367.msg75108#msg75108)

When I click on the art work of the song currently playing, I see:

Image 1: Album Cover
Image 2: Album Cover
Enable Image Rotation

Image 2: Album Cover has the correct image, and Image 1: Album Cover is (apparently) blank. The reason the images cycle between blank and correct artwork is because I have 'Enable Image Rotation' checked.

My question is, how to I either fix 'Image 1: Album Cover' so it shows an image, or how do I delete 'Image 1: Album Cover' so it doesn't even show up and the correct album art in 'Image 2: Album Cover' always is displayed?

Thank you in advance for your assistance and feedback.

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Does the first album art not show up in the Tag Editor, where you can delete it?
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Does the first album art not show up in the Tag Editor, where you can delete it?
When I right click the currently playing song in the playlist and choose Edit, there is information under the Tags tab, but nothing under the Tags (2) tab. Also, when I click the Artwork tab, I get a message stating 'A picture is corrupted, no longer exists or is inaccessible.'

If I highlight the currently playing song and hit Shift+Enter, I see the album artwork thumbnail on the Artwork tab, but if I click to another tab, such as Tags (2), then back to Artwork, I get the same message 'A picture is corrupted, no longer exists or is inaccessible.'

Does that help?

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Any other thoughts on this? I suppose I could just uninstall MusicBee, delete all my MusicBee folders, and try installing again to fix it.

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If the problem is in the file, reinstalling MusicBee won't help.  Once you get the message about a corrupt file, you still can't delete anything on the Artwork tab?
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If the problem is in the file, reinstalling MusicBee won't help.  Once you get the message about a corrupt file, you still can't delete anything on the Artwork tab?

No, after I get the message and click ok to acknowledge it, then I can delete the artwork.

Any suggestions on what to try next?

What is strange is, I have MusicBee installed on my media PC at home with no issues. I copied all my music and brought it to work, installed MB here, and am having the issue.

I actually had a similar issue a while back on this same computer/install where MB was showing the same album art for all songs playing: http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=11504.msg70140#msg70140

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Check your artwork search rules and paths in Tags (1) and rescan your artwork.
It might be that  ???
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Check your artwork search rules and paths in Tags (1) and rescan your artwork.
It might be that  ???
I've tried re-scanning artwork under the Tags (1) settings in Preferences. No change.

At this point I think I need to clear whatever cache MusicBee is using, and do either a fresh import, or a fresh scan to get my artwork in line. Do you concur? Is there a simple way to do that?

For reference, MusicBee is installed in the default location on my C drive, but my music is all sitting on D:\Music. The files are not in separate folders. All *mp3 files are in the root of D:\Music.

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At this point I think I need to clear whatever cache MusicBee is using

you can do that via File> Advanced> Reset Artwork Cache
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At this point I think I need to clear whatever cache MusicBee is using

you can do that via File> Advanced> Reset Artwork Cache

Ok, thanks. I have done that, then closed and re-opened MB. Will MB automatically re-scan my music for artwork, or do I need to do something manually?

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At this point I think I need to clear whatever cache MusicBee is using

you can do that via File> Advanced> Reset Artwork Cache

Ok, thanks. I have done that, then closed and re-opened MB. Will MB automatically re-scan my music for artwork, or do I need to do something manually?

Well, even after doing this, Music Bee still alternates between blank and cover art on each song. :(

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When playing a song in MB, the song initially starts with no cover art displayed. Then, after a few moments the correct album art image shows up. A few moments later it disappears. This cycle continues with every song. I currently am using MB version 2.4.5198 (a patched version of 2.3 that addresses some player control issues outlined here: http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=12367.msg75108#msg75108)

When I click on the art work of the song currently playing, I see:

Image 1: Album Cover
Image 2: Album Cover
Enable Image Rotation

Image 2: Album Cover has the correct image, and Image 1: Album Cover is (apparently) blank. The reason the images cycle between blank and correct artwork is because I have 'Enable Image Rotation' checked.

My question is, how to I either fix 'Image 1: Album Cover' so it shows an image, or how do I delete 'Image 1: Album Cover' so it doesn't even show up and the correct album art in 'Image 2: Album Cover' always is displayed?

Thank you in advance for your assistance and feedback.

I am having this same issue. I have all of my artwork embedded into the actual music files (I'M OCD lol) and still had the issue. Also, everytime I've tried to reinstall MB it had assigned a default image to all of my music files as image 1, which I had to go into MB's program files and delete so that image 1 would at least show up blank with "no cover art" displayed.

Hope we can find a fix for this :-\

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can you PM me a link to a zip of one of the problem files
Do you mean send you one of the music files?

P.S. My MB install is still doing this on my work computer, but I have no problems with album art on my home media PC. I now am running version 2.4.5269.