Theymademedoit Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Well, i was using windows 7 beta as my main system without any (major) problems, the album art and my music were perfect but since i upgraded to the RC a lot has change considering the album art of music the problem is farely easy to explain : heres what i mean every main album art pic shows double, it looks very ugly and i think it's a bug or something's wrong cause this didn't happen either with XP or the beta Does anybody have the same problem or a solution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimkraz Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 (edited) Just had a look, and yes if you use large Icons Most of them do show double, the ones that don't have the rear cover too and show that, seems that's the way it is, or click View and select Small Icons. Have a look at your own picture, the folders with rear covers are showing ok, the others are showing double front's. Jim Edited May 14, 2009 by jimkraz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Descartes Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Funny, I don't see mine at all, just live contents of the folder. It's a reported bug, no solution that I know of... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted May 14, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 14, 2009 I think it's the fact that the new WMP embeds the album art in the MP3 instead of just using the Folder.jpg file. As a result, just like the pictures folder you get a preview of several pictures in that folder instead of just the Folder.jpg from past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda X Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 How the fsck is the a versus? OS versus OS sure. OS versus a function of itself? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberv Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I had the same problem,solved in build 7127 ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vip Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I had the same problem,solved in build 7127 ;) Got here too late, but I was going to say the same thing :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monotremata Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I think it's the fact that the new WMP embeds the album art in the MP3 instead of just using the Folder.jpg file. As a result, just like the pictures folder you get a preview of several pictures in that folder instead of just the Folder.jpg from past. I dont see how its a bug really. If you look at any folder with multiple files in it using Large Icons, it shows you a couple previews of a couple random files in the folder. Your double artwork just means its showing you a mini preview of two of the files in the folder. If WMP is embedding the artwork into the mp3 well then of course youre going to see it like that. All of my music files have the cover art as their icon unless I have it set to details or small icons, then I get the generic mp3/m4a/quicktime icon. Folders do the same thing as well. Set em to details or small/medium and you get the generic folder icon. Set them to large or above and you get previews of the files inside. Does the same thing when you look at your Pictures or Movies folder or any folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TunAstek Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 Hi buddies. Actually i read the whole posts and still have no achievement. Using 7100, had done all the solutions but still can't fix it. Can anyone clearly define a solution? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Descartes Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 I'm afraid there's no solution for this (not that I know of). But the bug has been fixed in later builds, so we may be sure it won't make its way to RTM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamp0 Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 I don't use windows 7, But this doesn't seem like a bug. It happens in Vista as well. It simply shows you previews of what's in the folder. If you want one image to show up you have to save a image file of the album art to the corresponding folder and name it "folder.jpg" Granted you have all your MP3's encoded with album art, you can use iTunes Store Validator to pull all the artwork from your MP3's through iTunes and save them as a jpg file in the correct album folder. All automatically. It's very handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theyarecomingforyou Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 I don't have that problem here... 7127. All my music is in MP3 format with embedded artwork and a Folder.jpg image for each folder. Basically I don't allow WMP to manage my music, as when I do it destroys artwork, overwrites files and generally makes a complete mess of things - it's a disaster for anything more than simply media viewing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preppy Veteran Posted June 8, 2009 Veteran Share Posted June 8, 2009 ^-- you indicate that you're using the reserved filename folder.jpg - you must have a corresponding albumartsmall.jpg in that folder too. If you try to plug into the Windows album art scheme by only putting one piece of it in place (folder.jpg), that will break. This is why those files were marked system hidden. =\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doli Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 (edited) It is showing double because there are multiple files in each folder. Try this, have an album folder with only one .mp3 (no folder.jpg or any other .jpg). You should now only see one picture in the folder when you view it. I dont know how you feel about using the Libraries features because the files seem to be on another drive but add the location of music to the music library (top right, "Includes : # locations" and in the top left you will see "Arrange by". Pick Artist or Album and the albums should be presented in the way you are looking for. I would go with Artist since you have a lot of Bob Dylan albums, I think it sort the artist by "Contributing Artist" than "Album artist", strange. Edited June 8, 2009 by Doli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomwarren Veteran Posted June 8, 2009 Veteran Share Posted June 8, 2009 Don't try anything to fix it. As others have stated there is nothing wrong here it's a Windows 7 RC bug. This has been fixed in later builds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rakeshishere Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Here is the fix: Get the leaked build (7127) :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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