XP/Vista tutorials (w/pics) for Music & Album Art Issues

Odd. I had this problem and tried to solve it another way. I noticed that the album art that was screwed up was located in folders that still contained the correct album art. However, there were dupes (and corrupted dupes) of the album art named something like "zunealbum..."

I used search to get all those files in a single window, and tried to delete them, but the os (XP in my case) would not, though they were flagged not read only... I figured something in the background may have been accessing them, so I turned off zune sharing with Xbox. When I returned to those folders to try and delete those files -- this is strange -- THEY WERE ALREADY GONE. Album art after that was fine.

Haven't reinstituted sharing to see if that screws it up again. Will reply to this if it does.

You guys (MS Zune team) are killing me here.  This fix did not work for me on Vista.  I now suspect that the reason it didn't work is becuase while my database was all messed up, the "automaticly update album art and media information" option hosed all my tagging.  I have tried the fix twice and my stuff is still all messed up - even though it looks correct when browsing the folders in Windows. 

I don't know why people are thanking the zune team for the fix... even if it did work for you, it's a techy PITA fix - not something an average music lover should have to do.  I'm biting my tongue here but let's just say it KILLS me that MS has, once again, given people a reason to think ill of updates/upgrades.  You guys make it SO hard to be a supporter of Microsoft - the culture that propogates this "we'll fix it with support" attitude needs to be changed in Redmond.

Very, Very, Very Frustrated. 

Meta data on disk was in fact screwed up in the process. 

It needs to be made very clear that turning that auto update of album info off is critical.

I happen to have just ripped about 20 cd's to my collection and had not backed up since I did that.  So now I've got to try and either selectively recover the music from backup or walk thru the meta data, song by song. trying to fix it.

There should be a huge warning that suggests all media be backed up before installing this software.  This is going to take me hours to make right

 soccermonster18 wrote:

I don't know how to find that location on my computer, but i am running vista...is there any other/more simple way for me to fix the problem?

I have a guide (For Vista) with screen shots at http://www.sharingisgood.com/tutorials.htm
That might help you. Just remember that you need to rename the files, DO NOT delete them.

Thanks, StreetChariot (XBL/Zune) SharingIsGood.com - Your place to discover new bands and artists on your Zune.

 BungalowGuy wrote:

You guys (MS Zune team) are killing me here.  This fix did not work for me on Vista.  I now suspect that the reason it didn't work is becuase while my database was all messed up, the "automaticly update album art and media information" option hosed all my tagging.  I have tried the fix twice and my stuff is still all messed up - even though it looks correct when browsing the folders in Windows. 

I don't know why people are thanking the zune team for the fix... even if it did work for you, it's a techy PITA fix - not something an average music lover should have to do.  I'm biting my tongue here but let's just say it KILLS me that MS has, once again, given people a reason to think ill of updates/upgrades.  You guys make it SO hard to be a supporter of Microsoft - the culture that propogates this "we'll fix it with support" attitude needs to be changed in Redmond.

Itunes software fixed my Zune software library........nice.

 StreetChariot wrote:

 soccermonster18 wrote:

I don't know how to find that location on my computer, but i am running vista...is there any other/more simple way for me to fix the problem?

I have a guide (For Vista) with screen shots at http://www.sharingisgood.com/tutorials.htm
That might help you. Just remember that you need to rename the files, DO NOT delete them.

 Smooth525 wrote:

Very, Very, Very Frustrated. 

Meta data on disk was in fact screwed up in the process. 

It needs to be made very clear that turning that auto update of album info off is critical.

I happen to have just ripped about 20 cd's to my collection and had not backed up since I did that.  So now I've got to try and either selectively recover the music from backup or walk thru the meta data, song by song. trying to fix it.

There should be a huge warning that suggests all media be backed up before installing this software.  This is going to take me hours to make right

 BungalowGuy wrote:

You guys (MS Zune team) are killing me here.  This fix did not work for me on Vista.  I now suspect that the reason it didn't work is becuase while my database was all messed up, the "automaticly update album art and media information" option hosed all my tagging.  I have tried the fix twice and my stuff is still all messed up - even though it looks correct when browsing the folders in Windows. 

I don't know why people are thanking the zune team for the fix... even if it did work for you, it's a techy PITA fix - not something an average music lover should have to do.  I'm biting my tongue here but let's just say it KILLS me that MS has, once again, given people a reason to think ill of updates/upgrades.  You guys make it SO hard to be a supporter of Microsoft - the culture that propogates this "we'll fix it with support" attitude needs to be changed in Redmond.

Thanks, StreetChariot (XBL/Zune) SharingIsGood.com - Your place to discover new bands and artists on your Zune.