Windows Media Player 11 automatic folder.jpg download issue

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Extracampine

Windows Media Player 11 by default will try and retrieve album art
(folder.jpg) from the internet. If it finds it, it will overwrite any
pre-existing folder.jpg (even if the pre-existing one is a larger file) as
well as create an AlbumArtSmall.jpg file.

Having this as a default option is foolish, as the program began to
overwrite my scanned-in high-resolution images with crappy low-resolution
ones. Realising this, I searched the options for a remedy to this.

The tools/options/library tab enables the user to switch off various
"Automatic media information updates for files". Great, I thought. However,
despite this option being switched off, Media Player continues to carry out
this assault of my file organisation rather sporadically.

Any ideas?
 
First thing to do is take a copy of all your folder.jpgs before you lose
them...

if you put the following line in a batch file and run it from the top folder
of your
music collection it will find all the folder.jpgs and make a copy of each
called
cover.jpg

for /r %%i in (Folde?.jpg) do copy "%%i" "%%~dpiCover.jpg"

You could then use this batch file to delete any folder.jpgs and albumart
files after a wmp11 rescan.

attrib -S -H AlbumArtSmall.jpg /S
del /S AlbumArtSmall.jpg
pause
attrib -S -H Folder.jpg /S
del /S Folder.jpg

and then use the reverse of the first line of code to copy your Cover.jpgs
back to folder.jpgs

for /r %%i in (Cove?.jpg) do copy "%%i" "%%~dpiFolder.jpg"


BE careful with these batch files as if you run the wrong one at the
wrong time you might end up crying into your beer...
 
Lol, cheers!




Buellpilot said:
First thing to do is take a copy of all your folder.jpgs before you lose
them...

if you put the following line in a batch file and run it from the top
folder of your
music collection it will find all the folder.jpgs and make a copy of each
called
cover.jpg

for /r %%i in (Folde?.jpg) do copy "%%i" "%%~dpiCover.jpg"

You could then use this batch file to delete any folder.jpgs and albumart
files after a wmp11 rescan.

attrib -S -H AlbumArtSmall.jpg /S
del /S AlbumArtSmall.jpg
pause
attrib -S -H Folder.jpg /S
del /S Folder.jpg

and then use the reverse of the first line of code to copy your Cover.jpgs
back to folder.jpgs

for /r %%i in (Cove?.jpg) do copy "%%i" "%%~dpiFolder.jpg"


BE careful with these batch files as if you run the wrong one at the
wrong time you might end up crying into your beer...
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