Album art takes long to load or doesn't load at all in explorer.exe

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    Album art takes long to load or doesn't load at all in explorer.exe


    Im having this issue when I go to my Music folder/library in windows there is either no album art (in this case no icons in place of the album art either to suggest if its an mp3 or what not), or it takes a really long time for the album art to load on every peace of music. I have also tried to search on google about this problem. No luck probably because I'm rubbish at searching :)

    ill really appreciate it if someone can help me out.

    Here is a screen shot about what I'm on about ---->

    Text in image: Files that have no album art still have the file type icon on them.

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  2. Arc
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    Welcome aboard, ksbansal :)

    If you dont have adequate RAM/free RAM to generate the arts, it happens. Let us know the size of your ram, and you need to run this test, too.

    RAM - Test with Memtest86+
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    Arc said:
    Welcome aboard, ksbansal :)

    If you dont have adequate RAM/free RAM to generate the arts, it happens. Let us know the size of your ram, and you need to run this test, too.

    RAM - Test with Memtest86+


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    4 gigs of ram

    I can't really run this test as I have a laptop and I cannot remove the ram. Is there any other way of figuring out the situation without using this particular test??
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  4. Arc
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    Then you may try another thing ...
    Run Icon Cache - Rebuild and run Windows 7 SP1 Disk Cleanup Tool with "thumbnails" checked in step 3, and see if there is any difference.
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    Arc said:
    Then you may try another thing ...
    Run Icon Cache - Rebuild and run Windows 7 SP1 Disk Cleanup Tool with "thumbnails" checked in step 3, and see if there is any difference.
    At the 3rd step of disk clean up i didnt have a "Clean up system files" button, so i continued from step 6.

    Its made the problem better for a moment. Instead of no album art with not file extension icons, now extension icons appear, but still not album art. When I refreshed the music folder it went back to its original state with no icons at all.


    This is what i got for that short moment when I opened it the first time after your instructions --->

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  6. Arc
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    Can you post a screenshot of any of your folder icons ?

    I am guessing the iconpack you are using disables thumbnail preview.

    Have a look : Thumbnail Previews - Enable or Disable
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    I don't think it has anything to do with that, because ive been using these exact icons for a long long time and didn't encounter the problem. The problem derived slowly and recently.

    here are the icons

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  8. Arc
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    ksbansal said:
    I don't think it has anything to do with that, because ive been using these exact icons for a long long time and didn't encounter the problem. The problem derived slowly and recently.
    At least make it sure that this option is not checked there
    Album art takes long to load or doesn't load at all in explorer.exe-folder_options.jpg

    As it appears, thumbnail preview is disabled; and this is the regular phenomena in such a situation.
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    I have had a look and its unchecked. still got the problem.
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    I had a similar problem with windows photo viewer. The images would either not load or take a long time to load (thumbnails were fine), but to resolve this problem I just deleted one of the database files for windows photo viewer. This problem also a raised at the same time as the one we are discussing.
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