Cool, and Thank You, finally some useful responses and suggestions.
I'm 54 years old, Retired/Disabled USARMY Vet and CTO of a Networking Company, and the Owner of a Gunshop. I really don't have time to worry about NOT hurting some snowflakes feelings about a piece of software I have loved and used for years and have OFFERED to PAY to get my problem rectified.
My simple problem is/was {embedded} "album art" related while also being OS directory system related.
It IS a MB issue, somehow, and I have proven that now, after hours of pissing with it, and losing over 2000 of embedded art tags.
Yes, it happened
every time I added a new .mp3 file
AND edited it to add tags and ART to the file with MB... if I just added the file and didn't edit it, and just played it, all the folders stayed correct within MB.
As anyone can clearly see in the pic I shared above, I don't have entire albums of each Artist, sometimes only 1 song from an Artist is common and NOT UNUSUAL for most casual users.... so NO, I do not have each Artist in their own folder within the structure of Library...and the App should NOT and really does not care.
http://www.i-zoe.com/MBsettings-art.jpg and
http://www.i-zoe.com/MBsettings-song.jpg CLEARLY show that I do NOT have my settings configured such as
Captain-paranoia misunderstood above.
Now, it is PAINFULLY apparent to me the parameters of the Ownership and Technical Support issues of the Owner, of whom I am EXTREMELY GRATEFUL for ALL his efforts and THIS FABULOUS piece of Software, but, even Microsoft {or especially Microsoft}, has minor bugs and hiccups in their flagship software with a grandiose team of Developers and Programmers, and I'm also painfully so, aware of how the "user support" forums seem to work... I understand that there is no "1 for 1" relationship of views to experience of issue, but COME ON, all those views and NO ONE else has the issue? My take on that is that most users would not even notice this as an issue BECAUSE of how they might have their directory structured - as in "seperate folders for each Artist".
All THIS to say, I think I have pinpointed the causation of my frustration.
The "Save" button on the Edit screen.
If I don't click on the "Save" button, it doesn't cause the issue, but still saves the changes including the Artwork. Weird, I know.
Something else I noticed, maybe a feature of only MB, or not, but MB allows/shows more than 1 pic for each song, 3 to my count, and I also know that a feature of ID3v2.3 allows for about 17 pictures detailing various items of worth relating to the Artist or the Production etc.etc...
And by the way, I think ALL the "scroll bars" need to be wider or more contrasted to the rest of the theme... but I digress....
So, I went and selected "All" and edited the artwork to select "nothing" as the associated pic. Went back in and edited 1 file to add back in the Artwork, clicked "Save", and the bitch did it again. So I moved ALL the songs from that directory, to another newly created one on a different drive on a remote server. Then I went and edited a different song with a different software and put it back into the directory for MB... and VIOLA, it stayed correct. So I did the same for about 15 other songs, from all different Artists, moved them back into the MB directory, and they stayed correct. so I put 10 more un-re-edited songs back into MB and it still stayed correct. Then I tried editing 1 song in MB, clicked "Save" and it screwed the pooch again. So I deleted that song, and it went back to correct... weird I thought... So I just tried one more, in deep frustration at 4am, half asleep, and I forgot to click the "Save" button before moving to the next song, and it stayed correct, which I also thought was weird... so I did about 100 more - ALL with out clicking the "Save" button.
Everything is well now. I will NEVER add more than the 1 pic embedded in a song. So now I have the correct "Album" art AND the correct "Song" art, for my purposes anyway. I have created a script to automatically select the "Next" button in the player every 6 seconds so it will add the Lyrics to all the songs by it self now. 10 songs a minute is not that bad. 60 songs an hour. 1440 songs in 24 hours. It'll be done by the weekend.
So, WTFFFS is up with that "Save" function ??
For the LOVE of GOD and ALL that is HOLY, please tell me, or just get it fixed... I'll pay, honestly !!!