Windows 7 Folder Behavior for Mp3 Albums

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Windows 7 Folder Behavior for Mp3 Albums

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After recently upgrading to Win7 from XP I was pleasantly surprised to find that Win7 will load album art and use it either as the folder icon or in the case of parent (artist) folders it would show the album art within a default windows folder icon. I really like the look of this and it helps add a visual check in my random browsing of my files.

However, I've noticed that for some reason that this functionality doesn't always occur as seen in the capture below:
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As you can see some folders display the second level album folders and their associated album art just fine, but for others it just looks like a normal folder icon.

I've done a good deal of searching through google and I found one, and only one, similar article/topic that someone else had brought up, but the advice/solutions given weren't applicable to my scenario (and I don't think they fixed the OP's problem either). I keep my music files on an external drive, not in the default windows My Music folder allocation space. Also, I don't use Windows Media Player because its always been filthy trash that never does what I wanted it to, but that's just my opinion.

Anyway, I release tech issues aren't necessarily the prominent topic that these forums as a whole seem to address, but I was hoping that someone here either (a) knows of a solution to get the art to show in all folders or (b) could point me toward a resource or board that might be better suited to helping me.

It should be noted that all my music files are properly tagged. I do them all by hand and each one has the exact same tag formatting, including their associated album art.



Any ideas?
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Re: Windows 7 Folder Behavior for Mp3 Albums

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This is because it doesn't download covers, they are taken from files. its the same way that winamp is able to tell the artist and name of the song even when file name is random 3903920.mp3.
its that metatag or metadata or something like that which is attached to a file, 7 just rips it from there and some files does not have it, so it appears blank.

i never use gay tile view anyway, its messy and slow for finding anything. i put list and in alphabetical order.
there are programs that can edit that metatag tho. this is also the way how youtube is able to tell if you upload copyrighted track. google for the tools, im sure you can insert the pic there manually if you really need one. some programs might be able to actually download it somewhere. like BSPlayer and VLC can download subtitles from internet when you play a movie.
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That's just it though, all my meta tag data is filled out, even the covers.
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compare the files, there must be something. its also that win 7 takes first files as examples from the folder, it might be that first files don't have data on them. there has to be something to it. compare the files and see what's the difference. or maybe order is different. win 7 is gay if it comes to such things, its so stupid that it cant do anything, just complains error here and error there, while having that ridiculous "security" that screws things up even more.
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Normally, I would think that was it, but I've manually tagged all the data in these files myself by hand.

Even Win7 doesn't show any real difference between the various artists aside from the initial encode software (which should have zero impact on meta data).
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I realize its probably just one of the stupid fucking quirks of windows, but there has to be some sort of solution.
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honostly i have no idea, win 7 = gay 7 .. ive been fighting with ever since i installed this gay 7. always some lame shit that never occured in XP. like the huge lag when downloading, some RETARDS saying its anti-virus or firewall, how the fuck can it be, if lag wont go away after i stop and close the torrent or other download program. its just gay 7 gaying itself up as usual.

from those pics, maybe its the size of the cover ? i noticed one of them is a lot bigger in size (resolution). no idea tho. to me its not even important, since i never use thumbnails, exept on pics sometimes.
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Yeah, I was thinking the cover size too, but after checking my other albums the size varies from 120 to 1000 in size on the working ones.

Urgh, guess I'll go post over in microshit's tech forums.
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i would like to see their explanation actually. its probably something like "your file/s is/are corrupt, format or get new HDD and buy new legal win 7, then try again, if issue presists, dont use those stupid songs"

anyway if you get any kind of reply out of microshitsoft (not members, but actual microasssoft ppl), post it here.
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Yeah, I intended to share the response, assuming I get one that fixes it.

Posted my question over at their tech support forums: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US....

Also, its not that I actually look through my files to find music to play, I use WinAmp's search for that, but when I'm in there adding in new albums or artists the visual lack of continuity really rubs me the wrong way.
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i checked mine, maybe like 3% has images and i also cant seem to find "audio properties" anywhere.
nah its useless for me, i only use list view. i have evertything sorted into "artist" albums, so i need to find something, i just go by first letter of album.
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