[RESOLVED] Gameex Jukebox issue to display album arts

[repetto74]

Hi,

I have a small issue with the music folder images when using the jukebox feature.

I have different music folders for which I want a different image to be displayed in the Gameex Jukebox. I have set Gameex to use the Media Player playlist and have set a different folder.png image for each music folder.

Everything has worked flawlessy until I decided to add a couple of mp3 songs into one folder. Now I do not know why but Gameex will display the image which was originally tagged into the extra mp3 I copied into that folder. I tried to clean the mp3 with a tag utility but this image is still popping up instead of the dedicated folder.png..

Just to give some extra infos : the image is displayed twice on the jukebox page, the main image on the left is wrong while the small thumbnail on the bottom left is the correct one.

Any idea on how to fix this?

[Tempest]

Try deleting your cache files for the jukebox.

[repetto74]

Is there a dedicated folder in Gameex where to delete the Jukebox Cache files? How are they labelled??

[DazzleHP]

\GameEx\DATA

I don't use the jukebox but if it follows the pattern of the rest of GE's cache files then they will be called something related to the jukebox with a .dbcache extension for example:

jukebox.dbcache

You'll have to use some initiative as i don't know exactly what they are called. Unless of course someone who uses the Jukebox can enlighten us

[repetto74]

Hi,

I deleted all files with dbcache extension into the DATA folder but it will not solve the problem

[repetto74]

Hi,

I have tried deleting all cache files, tried to change the theme but this cover art for one music folder is still not the correct one. I really do not know where this image is hidden in the Gameex tree....

[AlphaUMi]

Hello!

Album covers are cached in GameEx\MEDIA\ALBUMS folder. You should empty this folder.

As a second step, you should open the Setup Wizard, go to Audio Settings, and set "Download album, dvd, video artowork" to NO. Otherwise GE will redownload covers from an online source overwriting your personal artwork.

Probably (but I'm not sure) in the same menu you have to set GE to use Media Player library.

This is the way I made GameEx to read my personal Folder.jpg.

Hope this helps,

Alpha.

P.S.: Out of topic, but I want to say hello to all of you guys!!!

[repetto74]

Hi AlphaUmi

Thanks a lot for your help on this.

All settings are as you described and also my ALBUM folder is empty (there is only a text file in it). The Jukebox is also set to use the Media Player Library so really do not know whatelse can be done to fix this....

[Adultery]

Welcome back, Alpha!

[Draco1962]

Welcome back, Alpha!

[AlphaUMi]

@Repetto: hmmm... I have no further ideas... except... and if you tried to convert Folder.png to jpg? And are you sure you "eradicated" any presence of the "wrong" image from the folder in question, including hidden files (Media player creates some hidden files), image tag, and even Thumbs.db (the latter shouldn't affect anything in gameex, though)...

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[repetto74]

Hi,

I have cleaned the mp3 file involved in this problem with a Tag utility so gameex should display the image in the .png file.

Where I am supposed to look in Windows Media Player for any hidden files to delete? My Xp is set to show hidden files but where should I look into?

[AlphaUMi]

They are located in the same folder as the mp3s. They are called AlbumArt.jpg and AlbumArtSmall.jpg. Media Player creates these files in every music folder it scans during the music library importing process. These files have "system" as attribute, so in XP you have to enable it to show hidden and system files.

And... I'm just guessing about this but... why not try to convert the .png to .jpg? Maybe GE will give priority to jpg... wherever the wrong image is located.

Which image Win media player displays in the library? Thre wrong or the right one? Ore none of them, since you cleaned it?

And... there are two versions of mp3 tag. v1 and v2. Most tagging programs create tags for both versions... and some others display only v2 tags. Maybe a v1 image is still present in the mp3 file? Try another tagging utility.

Just keep investigating.. I'm convinced we'll find the reason of your issue...

Another thing... since you are using Windows Media Player as source, try to recreate your library in WMP.

Keep in mind that recreating your library will overwrite every Folder.jpg found in folders according to the image found in tag. If you use a custom Folder.png, these files will not be overwritten.

[Adultery]

I really think you'll find these images in the mp3's folder if they're not in the GameEx album art folder.

[repetto74]

Hi,

OK It's resolved now! {RESOLVED}

I tried to change the Folder.png to the jpg extension and got a prompt saying a file with that name already exist. I could not see this Folder.jpg (I have XP set to show hidden files) so I started wondering something went bad with the mp3 folder.

I did it from scratch, created another folder and copied all my Mp3 there + the Folder.png image....now Gameex Jukebox is displaying the correct album art

In reply to AlphaUMI the album art displayed by WMP was the correct one. Something went bad into the Mp3 folder I guess where an "hidden" wrong image called "Folder" had the priority....

Thanks a lot for your support!

[AlphaUMi]

I quote myself:

"They are located in the same folder as the mp3s. They are called AlbumArt.jpg and AlbumArtSmall.jpg. Media Player creates these files in every music folder it scans during the music library importing process. These files have "system" as attribute, so in XP you have to enable it to show hidden and system files".

I forgot to add that a Folder.jpg is added as well. This is the file that (correctly) gameex was displaying.

There was a Folder.jpg in that folder, and you couldn't show it because you anabled XP only to show hidden files. For hidden & system files exists another option in the same menu. When you create your library in WMP, Media Player creates those files extracting them from tags, and set the as system and hidden.

Glad you have this sorted out!!!