06-04-2024, 10:42 PM
A little bit of background to the current issue -
I have never been able to get this album to show cover art in the album view. It shows in folder view.
I have tried downloading other image files of the cover, embedding the image, all sorts of variations of removing, adding, rebuilding the library, regenerating thumbnails, rewriting tags, etc etc nothing would change the issue.
I gave up and decided to live with it.
On upgrading to 9.01 I wanted to sort this out so I downloaded 2 more (different) copies of this album.
As before the 2 new copies show up as expected (including coverart) in folder view, and I can play the songs from there.
This is where it get's really strange
In Album view the original album is gone and there is one "album" showing with the correct title but its's listed under V with the artist name 'Various'. When I click on the album nothing happens (should show tracks) when I use the menu to show tracks there is an empty box with 'Music Collection' written in the middle.
I have removed and replaced the 2 new albums one at a time and this doesn't change whether all are in the library or only either one.
If I remove the 2 new versions and do a library update the original album is listed correctly, with tracks but still no cover art.
I have checked the tags, they seem normal. They are different enough that they should be listed separately (as they are in folder view) and there is nothing in the tags to explain why the band is listed as 'Various'
Both folders have correctly named .jpg cover files and the art is also embedded.
All other System of a Down albums appear as expected. All other artists with multiple copies of the same album show and work as they should
All music files are .flac
Apologies for the long post, any and all ideas appreciated.
I have never been able to get this album to show cover art in the album view. It shows in folder view.
I have tried downloading other image files of the cover, embedding the image, all sorts of variations of removing, adding, rebuilding the library, regenerating thumbnails, rewriting tags, etc etc nothing would change the issue.
I gave up and decided to live with it.
On upgrading to 9.01 I wanted to sort this out so I downloaded 2 more (different) copies of this album.
As before the 2 new copies show up as expected (including coverart) in folder view, and I can play the songs from there.
This is where it get's really strange
In Album view the original album is gone and there is one "album" showing with the correct title but its's listed under V with the artist name 'Various'. When I click on the album nothing happens (should show tracks) when I use the menu to show tracks there is an empty box with 'Music Collection' written in the middle.
I have removed and replaced the 2 new albums one at a time and this doesn't change whether all are in the library or only either one.
If I remove the 2 new versions and do a library update the original album is listed correctly, with tracks but still no cover art.
I have checked the tags, they seem normal. They are different enough that they should be listed separately (as they are in folder view) and there is nothing in the tags to explain why the band is listed as 'Various'
Both folders have correctly named .jpg cover files and the art is also embedded.
All other System of a Down albums appear as expected. All other artists with multiple copies of the same album show and work as they should
All music files are .flac
Apologies for the long post, any and all ideas appreciated.
