Okay then. I'm sure there's a good reason for having done it that way.
But I find it quite annoying to have to remember to turn off that checkbox every time I start MusicBee or else deal with the unwanted copies of artwork that get created when that box is checked.
Here's the problem I have with it::
I have artwork cover.jpg in folder "Album". No music files are in the folder at that level.
All the music files are in subfolders "Album\Album CD1", "Album\Album CD2", etc.
I add the "Album" folder to the library. It shows up with no album art, since there is no artwork in the folder where the music files are. That's expected
I edit the album in the library and add the artwork file Album\cover.jpg
When all three preferences are unchecked, it does exactly what I want.
However, when the "copy to the same folder as the music file and name as" preference is checked, it copies cover.jpg to all the subfolders and changes the artwork for the music files in each subfolder to be the local copy.
I don't like that behavior because:
1. I have fairly high resolution artwork for most albums and I don't see the need to have multiple copies taking up disk space, especially for box sets with many CDs.
2, Some box sets have artwork for individual CDs. If I have that artwork named cover.jpg in the subfolder, it will get overwritten by the copy of the parent artwork in the above scenario. This overwriting happens with no warning or confirmation. Unless I have a backup of the preferred artwork somewhere, it is lost. The workaround for this unwanted behavior is to change the filename under the 3rd preference to be a unique name.
So I would very much like to have it remember my preference settings so i don't have to change them every time I start up MusicBee.
Thanks. I love the product other than this one annoyance.