Windows 7 - How to add music in FLAC to WMP 12 library?

Never mind, I guess I have to "Restore Media Library" TWICE in order for it to work. First to bring in the new or "Unknown" flac files then second to delete them and restore them into the "Known" or legitimate file. Sheesh! BTW, does anyone know if I can add album cover artwork as a tag using Mp3Tag? I hate having to keep pasting new cover art every time I restore the WMP Library.

yes you can add album art,
add the album to mp3tag highlight it and then right click the album art box bottom left, select add cover ,
tip, have the album art in the album folder to start with then when the cover window opens it will have the cover art there to select.
then click save

Yeah, in practice it appeared to have gone off without a hitch, at least when using the Mp3Tag editor. However, when I did a restore on the Library the cover art is still left blank. Huh! Checking the directory on Mp3Tag shows that each track has the corresponding album cover art to go along with it. Just doesn't want to make the leap onto the WMP Library. I dunno...

The current version of WMP Tag Plus doesn't support embedded album art yet - this will be added in the next major release. In the meantime, you could place the album art as Folder.jpg files in the album folders. Those should get picked up by WMP.

It's not really clear to me why you keep restoring the media library. This should be done only in extreme circumstances like library corruption. WMP should usually refresh songs' metadata automatically. If it doesn't, the supported way to refresh the metadata is by re-adding the songs, as I explained earlier. Nevertheless, I can't tell why the FLAC files keep getting added as Unknown. The only explanation I can currently give is that you're somehow still running the 64-bit version or that the plug-in keeps getting disabled.

Seems to be working fine now Tim! This might sound like a completely noobish question, but exactly how does folder.jpg work? Never used it before. I always used "paste" but I'd like to try your method. Seems more permanent. Thanks!

One more thing, when I pin WMP to either the desk top or task bar, it reverts to the 64-bit version. The 32-bit version is accessed only through the Start Menu. Is this an anomaly? If I use the 32-bit version everything works as planned. Best way to check which version is running is to check Tools>Plugins. If nothing is found, its 64 bit. Weird. Have you heard of this occurring before? If so, can anything be done to correct it?

Instead of copy-pasting the album art, you directly save it as a new JPEG file called Folder.jpg, to the same folder as the music files of the album you want to add album art for. All the songs in that folder should then get the Folder.jpg file as album art in WMP's library.

Are you pinning the shortcut in the Start Menu? You can also directly go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player and pin the wmplayer.exe file in that folder to the task bar.