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2017-02-16, 12:06
(This post was last modified: 2017-02-18, 13:00 by KitFox.)
Hello,
I have a strange problem in my music library - Most of the songs are OK, but there are a few that show the same cover art for no apparent reason.
*All the songs are in separate folders, with different artist names and different song names.
*All the songs are correctly tagged.
*All the songs have folder.jpg in their folder, or embedded in the mp3 file itself.
**Changing folder.jpg for one song (embedded or not), changes the cover art for all of these songs.
I have tried re-tagging, replacing folder.jpg, embedding or extracting, cleaning and re-scanning the music library and even making a clean new Kodi installation. Nothing works.
I suspect it's a database generation thing, but I don't want to speak prematurely.
Any help regarding this will be very appreciated.
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2017-02-16, 19:20
(This post was last modified: 2017-02-16, 19:29 by KitFox.)
Hello Dave and thanks,
Deleting the thumbnails folder didn't solve it. As for Thumbnails13.db - I seem to be unable to locate that file - I searched the entire Kodi directory for that (I'm using Kodi from the Windows store, by the way).
By database generation I meant whatever file Kodi creates to know what's where. Maybe some .db file. As you can see, I'm no developer, but I'll gladly help as much as possible.
Edit: There are no nfo files involved in my music folder.
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I don't believe that Kodi can grab the artwork from an embedded music file. So it is only going to read the folder.jpg file in your music folder.
So you can have a folder.jpg under the Artist.
A different folder.jpg under that same Artists Albums (different for each album).
I've found that if you have an Artist (or Album) without said folder.jpg (and it must be jpg, using jpeg, or png, or bmp wont work), Kodi will randomly (at least the first time) grab another piece of artwork (usually from another Artist), and use that for every Artists (or Album) that doesn't have any folder.jpg. Once this is done, that image is cached, and getting rid of it is a pain.
I used to recommend MediaElch for all your Music Artwork needs, but the current version is broken (most of the websites scrapped changed their codes or something), so will have to wait for a newer version of MediaElch to be released that fixes this issue.
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All mine were embedded with Picard (I made not changes to Picard), so I would guess that they are embedded correctly (or is there a change in Picard I need to make)?
Granted I did not wait to long to verify if an image came up or not, so I will test this tonight and report back.
Thanks Dave for the heads up.
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Update: I've just noticed that in these specific problematic songs, a 3rd party's spinning disc and a cover art, are placed over the song's cover and disc art.
So, this actually just might be a skin problem. Therefore, for the moment I'm going to drop this issue.
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2017-02-18, 12:58
(This post was last modified: 2017-02-18, 12:59 by KitFox.)
Update: I noticed that it isn't a skin problem, because Kodi displayed the incorrect album details.
So, using a 3rd party software, I:
A. Removed all tags from the problematic songs, including artwork.
B. Saved the files.
C. Rewrote the tags and re-added cover art.
D. Saved the files again.
Tried this on several files\songs, it worked. I consider this problem solved.