Re: How does WMP9 append Folder.JPG to my pre-existing Music Folders?

From: phatpaul (phatpaul_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/16/04 

Date: 16 Feb 2004 11:48:23 -0800

YES! That was the problem (my IE cache was full). I actually found
the answer on Microsoft's website in the WMP9 FAQ before you
responded.
Thanks!

Paul

"zachd [ms]" <zachd@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<uCLmi2C9DHA.1424@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...
> Is your IE temporary files cache full? That'd be my suspicion here...
>
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> "phatpaul" <phatpaul@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:3e0b59c6.0402151036.43975ab1@posting.google.com...
> >I am having essentialy the same problem. I allowed WMP9 to download
> > album art and info about my huge album collection, but it only
> > finished about 1/4 of it and quit. I can't figure out how to get it
> > to finish.
> > I connected to my music collection from another computer on my LAN
> > running WMP9 and allowed it to download more covers and info. Doing
> > this I was able to get another 1/4 of my music collection finished,
> > but no more.
> > My guess is that Microsoft has implemented some kind of quota in the
> > number of albums for which you download art and info. If there is a
> > better solution than using 4 different machines to download info for
> > my music collection please let me know!
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > "Charlie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:<629D89F2-6EA4-47CA-B52F-53C0FE881C73@microsoft.com>...
> >> All:
> >>
> >> I used MusicMatch to rip almost 600 Albums to MP3 format. My file
> >> structure is Artist/Album/Songs.
> >>
> >> Music Match nicely embeds the album art into the ID3V2 Tags within each
> >> MP3. Now that I own a MCE machine, I've learned that Media Center needs
> >> to see Folder.jpg to display the album art when viewing artists or albums
> >> (because my Album Art is Embedded in my ID3 Tags, I can see the album art
> >> in MCE while the MP3 is playing).
> >>
> >> A week ago I allowed WMP9 to search my music files to add all of my music
> >> to WMP9s music library (I read that this was necessary to play my MP3s in
> >> MCE). WMP9 automatically generated folder.jpg and a few other image
> >> files within some of my album folders.
> >>
> >> Problem: WMP9 only added folder.jpg to about half of my music files. I'm
> >> not sure what it was about the other half that caused WMP9 to omit this
> >> information - their seems to be no rhyme or reason. All music is
> >> meticulously organized. All Music has album art embeded in the MP3. For
> >> some reason WMP9 didn't generate folder.jpg for half of my files.
> >>
> >> Having taken the time to ensure that all of my MP3s have album art
> >> embeded, I'm not too excited about going out and finding album art for
> >> 300 albums and saving the art as folder.jpg.
> >>
> >> How can I get WMP 9 to add folder.jpg to the rest of my album
> > folders? Note - I had already enabled the "Find Media information for
> > music copied with another program". I also have enabled "Update my
> > music files by retreiving missing media information from the
> > internet". I've read that it is not a good idea to enable "Rename and
> > rearrange music using media information" because it can screw your
> > hard work on the ID3 Tags.
> >>
> >> Any way to get WMP9 to generate the rest of the folder.jpg files for me?
> >>
> >> Charlie

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