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Windows Forum / Windows Media / General Topics / September 2006Wrong Album Art for Generic
I recently added a new music file and now somehow all unassigned files are assigned its Album Cover instead of the Generic music file ( note ). Even worse all Video files now display this same incorrect Album Art file ( instead of the generic Film Strip Image ). This is really annoying. How can I get it to go back to displaying the normal generic symbols for unassigned files. I have already deleted the file that brought the offending Album Art image and even deleted the associated Album Art Files ( after painstakingly searching ) but somehow the problem is still happening! Please help. There MUST be a way to fix this. This is really bad....Especially seeing this album art now associated with ALL video files. This is an unfortunate part of v11 design. > I recently added a new music file and now somehow all unassigned files are > assigned its Album Cover instead of the Generic music file ( note ). Even [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > bad....Especially seeing this album art now associated with ALL video > files. I found a solution THANK GOD. To correct this: Uncheck "Hide Protected Operating System Files" under VIEW in FOLDER OPTIONS. Then go to the Music Folder and delete the file "folder.jpg" After this everything was back to normal. > This is an unfortunate part of v11 design. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > bad....Especially seeing this album art now associated with ALL video > > files. You may care to monitor the situation. In my experience, WMP will undo what you've done within 24 hours. >I found a solution THANK GOD. To correct this: Uncheck "Hide Protected > Operating System Files" under VIEW in FOLDER OPTIONS. Then go to the Music [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> > bad....Especially seeing this album art now associated with ALL video >> > files. I am happy to report that after more than a day, the odd behavoir has not reappeared. It seems that deleting the hidden file "folder.jpg" has stopped Media Player from using a random, recently matched Album Art file as a generic marker for unattributed music or video files. What is most surprising, however, is Microsoft's apparent indifference to the issue. On reading further I have found posts dating back to the summer of 2004 describing this very same problem. Apparently this has been a "known issue" for more than two years and over 3 releases of the Media Player software. And Microsoft's response seems to be a shrug and a "that's too bad". > You may care to monitor the situation. In my experience, WMP will undo what > you've done within 24 hours. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > >> > painstakingly > >> > searching ) but somehow the problem is still happening! |
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