Hi Steven, hi guys,
still as valid as it was many years before when I had first stumbled upon MusicBee and began realizing what a gem it is: Musicbee totally changed the way I experience music. I am deeply grateful for your efforts and the Bee, it has been a blast.
I discovered some strange behavior years ago concerning files with multiple embedded artworks, but when I didn't encounter it anymore, I forgot about it. Now it came up again and this time I have a theory about what may have "caused" it. I am using 3.3.7261, but the older encounters with the problem date back to the times of MusicBee 2.
The strange behavior: Some of the albums that have multiple artworks embedded into its files -- by far not all of them -- loose the correct artwork order, meaning that primary and secondary artwork are swapped. This is especially annoying since I often embed alternative artworks that cannot be made out as the wrong artwork just by a glance. (Things would be not as bad if it were just that Musicbee would show the album back instead of the front, which would be noticable right away.)
What seems to cause it: Immediately before I noticed the error, I added a new custom tag under Preferences>Tags. When I was done with the addition, Musicbee started scanning my library, which is, of course, expected behavior. Thereafter, I began noticing the wrong covers.
And the connection between this cover swap and the custom tag addition seems plausible in retrospect, because when I was encountering the error in the past more regularly, I was quite busy with custom tags.
So much on my hunches. Questions remaining are (1) how does a library or settings change affect files with embedded artworks and (2) why only some albums are affected. By the way, it's always the same albums or at least some of them seem always affected. Of course, when repairing them in the past, I didn't notice anything off with the artwork or the files as such.
I am very happy to provide settings or some of the problematic files if that is of any help.
Help would be very much appreciated! Thank you!
Stay safe!
Theodor