MP3 album art embedded but not showing in W.Explorer

Hi!
Wow, I didn't think people were posting in this thread.

I'm not sure if this will work for you but I managed to "solve" this in a really weird, roundabout way.

So say you have an entire album of MP3's where none of the album art is showing. I Ctrl+A to select all of them and then right click>Properties. Then I switched to the "Details" tab. There, make ANY chance to the details. I think I just erase the year and retype it again - it's not important what you type, you just need to change the file so that the "Apply" button becomes available.
After that, I hit Apply and for some miraculous reason, all the thumbnails start to show.

Let me know if this works! It's been working for me so far.

Nishiio said:

This is kinda irking me, haha.

I've been on vacation for the past couple weeks and took some time to organizing my music. I used MP3Tag to add album art to all the MP3 files.

Just yesterday, I was editing a certain album. Like usual, I highlighted all the files and drag+dropped a JPG file into the slot for album art. It saved and MP3 Tag shows all of the files with an image file.

However, NONE of these images show up in the music folder in Windows Explorer ie. it still shows the default MP3 file icon.

Here's an image to illustrate:




Thanks in advance for any advice. =)

Having the same problem, wondering if any solutions have come about. I know the tags are correct. WMP12 sees them. Media Monkey sees them. I tag editor sees them.

Also noticed if you highlite several files and drag them, the icon is a default icon instead of the album art like it was in the past. Been doing this for a while, just now having time to work on it.

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

twosteper

Hi twosteper, and welcome to the forums.

If I were you I'd ditch your current id3 editor and install the excellent, and free, Tagscanner. Then I check in Tagscanner that you have the album artwork embedded, if so then I'd rebuild your search index database.

Regards
Post back with updates...

More information.

loaded a tagged album on a usb drive and took it to a friends house. His system shows the tags correctly when a single mp3 files is highlighted. The problem is not in the tagged files it is somewhere in the system that reads them.
I have also rebuild search database. I have also removed the files from wmp directory and re-installed the files to the library. Still no luck
Thanks again for any help.
twosteper

I am still having this problem and have not found a solution either.. Im about to just wipe and reinstall.

The problem arises when your registry becomes corrupt or maybe some registry cleaner program deletes it thinking it's useless.
I copied this registry file from a friend's PC and imported it on mine. Magically, all MP3 files having album art (whether embedded or not) started showing thumbnails...
Issue Solved!! :)