Album Art Not Updating to the bluesound app.
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I have a Vault 2i and I’m using MP3tag for the Mac to change some of the album art on albums that have the wrong cover art for an album. I bring the album into the MP3tap program, delete the original album art, then update the new album art (all .jpeg files within the size constraints) to the album. All looks fine. I then open the bluesound app then I go to “setting” then “reload artwork”. The old album art still appears; not the new art. I tried Rebuilding the Index then “reload artwork” but that still doesn’t work. I go back to MP3tag and check to see the album art for the album in question. It contains the new art; not the old. NOTE: If the album never contained album art, and I ADD it thru MP3tag, it updates fine on the bluesound app. The problem only occurs when I need to change the artwork. Any help with this would be most appreciated.
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Hi Larry,
Your issue was escalated to our Support Crew for a more detailed response 1:1 via e-mail. We are running slightly behind so do apologize for the delay. You should have received an email with a support request number as this posting sight is for level 1 triage.
Thanks for your patience and understanding.
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Alain… I have no idea how to find out if there is a cover.JPEG present in the folder. How do I do that? Much appreciated.
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Alain... You are correct. the old album art was still in the album's folder...
DUH. All I had to do was open the album's folder! I could see the "folder.jpeg" file was the old album cover. I deleted it, then copied the correct album cover to the album's folder renaming it "folder.jpeg". I then used the bluesound app's reindex, then "reload album art" and that did the trick!
Thank you so very much.
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Mark T... Note my message to Alain. Problem solved! Thanks!
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Interesting that you do not have any .jpeg in the album's folder, only embedded in the metadata. I'm going to stick with my method of deleting the old .jpeg from the folder and copying the new one into it; since that works for me! And I don't have to get the metadata editor involved at all to do this.
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I have a specific question related to this. Is MP3tag supposed to update folder.jpg when you use it to change the cover art? I can't find an answer to this anywhere. Normally it works, but I'm again having issues where I update the cover art using MP3tag but find that the cover doesn't get changed in Bluesound, and subsequently see that folder.jpg hasn't been updated. I used to use Yate on a Mac so could manage the cover art more reliably, but now I'm using Windows 11 so have no access to Yate.
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A full rebuild index on your player is needed after updating cover art.
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Yes, I always do that. After that, the folder.jpg file is not updated in at least some cases. That's why I am trying to determine if MP3tag is supposed to be updating the folder.jpg or is just updating the metadata for the cover art. Manually updating the folder.jpg is easy but time consuming, especially when I'm adding a number of albums.
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I suspect you are overcomplicating having both external and embedded artwork.
mp3tag can embedd artwork. You can export artwork from mp3tag.
External folder/cover art take precedence over embedded.
Solution, remove external cover art, or remove embedded and update only the cover art file.
I prefer the last option, changing cover art will then not change the date of the music files, avoiding clutter in the "new" section of the app/controller.0 -
You may also set the option Preserve file modification time when saving tags, if you do not wish the date to change
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Hi Scott,
Mp3tag does exactly what you tell it to do, so when adding a cover, it imports the selected cover into the audio file, nothing else. It is very reliable in what it does, different experience with another app does not make it unreliable.
It is also quite capable:
- custom columns; e.g. showing dimensions of the cover or the checksum of a FLAC
- custom filters; e.g. showing all tracks with cover larger than xxx pixels or yyy bytes
- actions; e.g. to add covers to multiple albums, replace characters / words or copy data from one tag field to another
- (external) tools; e.g. to (re)encode files to FLAC or to extract the audio track from a video file
Your solution: It is very easy to (bulk) export the embedded cover art to a jpg file named to your liking. Create an Action (top menu) of the type Export cover to file. Select the tracks / albums / even entire collection and run the action. For best results I suggest to trial it first on two albums.
My workflow is opposite: using image software: select best suited picture -> crop it if necessary -> resize to standard size + in same process name output file cover.jpg. Then add (or replace) for single album or use an Action to add to selected tracks / multiple albums. No need to export the cover that I have just imported.
Use a file search program to show any folders that do contain some music file AND do not contain a cover.jpg file. I use cover.jpg rather than folder.jpg because priority is cover -> folder -> embedded.
Rarely need to rebuild after updating covers, reindex usually suffices.
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Hi Scott, follow BJØRN post as its probably the reason why you are having issues.
One tip is that using cover.jpg takes precedence over any other form of artwork.
I use a program called Bliss, it works on all platforms and with a single click (once set in settings)can remove all embedded artwork.
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Thanks all for the clarifications.
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More following, but it is pending approval.........
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