Windows 7 - 90% of album art suddenly disappeared from library
Asked By KeithX
22-May-07 02:45 AM
I have Vista x64 Ultimate. For some reason when I started WMP11 yesterday,
virtually 90% of my albums have lost their album art.
Any ideas why this might happen or how I might recover it? If I browse the
folders with Windows Explorer, the folder thumbnails still show the artwork,
so it is there.
Do I really have to use Find Album info for EVERY one? Is there a way to do
this without updating anything else (I do not want to change track
information).
thanks
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dale097 replied...
Do the album folders have a hidden system file named Folder.jpg?
If so, and if your tracks are MP3s, then read my blog article at
http://dalepreston.com/Blog/2007/04/windows-media-player-and-album-art.html.
It talks about my ID3 Embed Pictures program.
If the Folder.jpg image doesn't exist you may be stuck. There are
third-party editors that will look through your library and download artwork
from Amazon for all of the albums in your library. This google search may
help:
http://www.google.com/search?q=wma+mp3+tag+editor+amazon+%22album+art%22.
Dale
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KeithX replied...
Thanks for your reply - I found a link about forcing a rebuild of the
database by renaming the existing .wmpdb file. The artwork has reappeared
now. Not sure why it went though...
Keith
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