My Music Library Folder Icons

[Guest]

When I rip an album while online Media Player downloads the album cover art
and places it in the album folder. The artist folder displays the album
folder icons on it. this all seems to work fine with a new rip.

I have some album files that do not have icons. I am not sure why. I played
around with a couple of them and finally somehow managed to have the default
icon of the strip of film and a musical note appear. I don't know what I did.

I have 2 questions:
1. How can I have the default icons appear?
2. How can I get Windows Media player to recheck for an album cover and
download it if available.?

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

When I rip an album while online Media Player downloads the album cover art
and places it in the album folder. The artist folder displays the album
folder icons on it. this all seems to work fine with a new rip.

I have some album files that do not have icons. I am not sure why. I played
around with a couple of them and finally somehow managed to have the default
icon of the strip of film and a musical note appear. I don't know what I did.

I have 2 questions:
1. How can I have the default icons appear?

If it's v10 rather than v9, then it's a bug. It just skips over some
files inexplicably.

2. How can I get Windows Media player to recheck for an album cover and
download it if available.?

You can re-run the Find Album Info wizard. This can be risky though - as
WMP will download any and all information about the album again,
correct or not. It also wipes out ratings etc.

You can download artwork independently by copying thumbnails from sites
like Amazon. However you have to do a bit of work to stop WMP from
subsequently overwriting it with what was there before. (This is for
v10, not v9 which is less invasive).