Duplicate Album Covers - *lots* of them

[LedHarvest]

Just noticed, my AlbumCovers folder is filled with duplicate images for almost every album. Some albums have many duplicates. Note the second screenshot - that's 10 x one album, and the timestamps show 9 of them were created at once.

I deleted AlbumCovers, restarted and the correct number of album covers have been generated - until I start moving through the different tabs - Artists > Albums > Genres > Last Played. Now the duplicates are back, although it's not consistent - some albums seem to have just one thumbnail, others have 10+.

[sveakul]

You have to do a little forum searching first, this has been asked and answered a dozen times already.  Start with Tools->Advanced->Reset Artwork Cache.  Then take a look at the Album Artwork Retrieval Filter (pictured below), set it the way you want it, and hit the "Rescan Artwork" button in the lower left corner.  That should at least get you started.  Then, do some excellent reading here:

https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=39082.0

[LedHarvest]

> You have to do a little forum searching first

I did - several keyword combos. Drew a blank.

> Album Artwork Retrieval Filter

That controls where MB looks for the artwork. It doesn't address the fact that MB is creating multiple **identical** thumbnails for the same album << that is a bug.

[boroda]

maybe not MB are creating these thumbnails. try to uninstall WMP. WMP can do weird things even in background.

[karbock]

maybe not MB are creating these thumbnails. try to uninstall WMP. WMP can do weird things even in background.

From the filename structure of those thumbnails, I guess they are located
- in MusicBee\AppData\InternalCache\AlbumCovers (Portable version)
- or in %LOCALAPPDATA%\MusicBee\InternalCache\AlbumCovers (Installed version)

There are no similar duplicates on my computer, except when using the 'Rounded Artwork' plugin (=> at most 1 duplicate).
But in my collection, album covers are stored only once per album, as cover.jpg/png in the respective folder,
and I systematically remove the pictures embedded in the audio files.

@LedHarvest:
When you have duplicates, is the album artwork embedded in the matching audio files?
That's just an assumption to explain the redundancy.

[sveakul]

> You have to do a little forum searching first

I did - several keyword combos. Drew a blank.

> Album Artwork Retrieval Filter

That controls where MB looks for the artwork. It doesn't address the fact that MB is creating multiple **identical** thumbnails for the same album << that is a bug.

Results from keywords "duplicate album covers";  please read some of these posts :
https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=426af386625354430#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=duplicate%20album%20covers&gsc.sort=

You didn't say if you did "Reset Artwork Cache", OR "Rescan Artwork."  Do both in that order, then Tools/Advanced/Rescan All Files.  And, remove Windows Media Player as suggested by boroda.