redwing,
... but thumbnail browser's showing a first song's artwork is not a bug but a feature.
Well, maybe some people think it is a feature, but maybe it ought to/could be selectable as to showing the FOLDER ART or the first song art, when "FOLDER name" is chosen in the Header menu ... then we would NOT have to spend 5 years struggling and waiting for someone to figure it out, and someone else to mention using a 7-second blank file to trick MB to do what it ought to do in the first place, correctly. {
FOLDER thumbnail browser NOT
first SONG in folder thumbnail browser} otherwise, it is just an annoyance. {bug}
IF, as someone has mentioned earlier, I should have songs organized by Artist and/or Album and those "groups" should be in separate FOLDERS {representing the Albums/Artists or songs}, THEN, I would STILL EXPECT MB {or ANY other audio software} to show me the art for the FOLDER and NOT the first song in the folder, no matter how many or few songs were in said folder.
Which now brings me to the "
ALL MUSIC" portion of our discussion ...
At the very top of the "FOLDER name" column is a "placeholder" named aptly enough "All". This "All" has no picture to it, save the built in one declaring that is has no picture associated with it, the infamous grayed/subdued triangle with dots on joints... when the folder containing ALL my music, and also aptly named "My Music", indeed has a "Folder.jpg" and a "folder.ico" contained within... which is ALSO different from ALL the other pictures/icons/art contained inside it.
So, all I am saying is, "
IF there exists a "Folder.jpg",
THEN use IT,
ELSE, use (something else/first file art)" wherever the Folder is viewed". {that's actually the exact programming language that could be used, of sorts}.
That's all. Really.