Can't delete album art files

[GemmaR]

I only suggested a backup just in case in deleting something you lost them all, both good and bad. Better safe than sorry, right?

But yes, if the good ones are safely in the album folder, then I think you'd be safe just deleting those loose ones in the main music folder. I'm not familiar with Tag & Rename( I use MP3Tag) but it's possible those are simply extra copies created by T&R that you don't need at all.

ehm... sorry, but for the third time I have to repeat it:
they are not the same files!

Major artists have their own folders, with complete albums, but others, of which I barely have 1 song, are loose in the generic music folder.
I hope this makes it clearer now, there's no double, no extra copies.
Tag&Rename works just fine in editing files tags, that's all it does.

Ah, I see now....forgive me, I've not been awake for very long.
What if you made a sub-folder for single songs like that...would the extra art images still appear?

I had the same idea and I just tried: created a "Misc" folder, moved all the loose files in and erased the outside hidden "folder" and "AlbumArtAmall" jpg.
Here's what happened:
- System created like a ton of files like "AlbumArt_{A8C017AB-FB20-4B58-AFE8-BB11CE8664F4}_Large" which fortunately I've bee able to erase without them having coming back
- no more jpg in the music folder (of course, there's no file, where would he pick the picture from?)

So with this trick I would be able if not to solve at leat to bypass the problem.
But since I don't like Bill winning on me, I still want to solve it, because I like having some songs loose in my music folder

 

[GemmaR]

Believe it or not, just copying back my files from the misc to the music folder did the trick: the jpg files are not appearing anymore :shock:

Damn, I hate it when there's no logical explanation :huh:

Anyway, problem solved, this might hopefully help someone else in the future: if your windows car won't start, try re-opening and closing the doors

 

[noobvious]

Ah, I see now....forgive me, I've not been awake for very long.
What if you made a sub-folder for single songs like that...would the extra art images still appear?

I had the same idea and I just tried: created a "Misc" folder, moved all the loose files in and erased the outside hidden "folder" and "AlbumArtAmall" jpg.
Here's what happened:
- System created like a ton of files like "AlbumArt_{A8C017AB-FB20-4B58-AFE8-BB11CE8664F4}_Large" which fortunately I've bee able to erase without them having coming back
- no more jpg in the music folder (of course, there's no file, where would he pick the picture from?)

So with this trick I would be able if not to solve at leat to bypass the problem.
But since I don't like Bill winning on me, I still want to solve it, because I like having some songs loose in my music folder

Bill? You mean Steve....Bill's not running MS anymore.

Believe it or not, just copying back my files from the misc to the music folder did the trick: the jpg files are not appearing anymore :shock:

Damn, I hate it when there's no logical explanation :huh:

Anyway, problem solved, this might hopefully help someone else in the future: if your windows car won't start, try re-opening and closing the doors

All I can say to that is...weird! But I'm glad it worked out for you.

 

[fimble]

... if your windows car won't start, try re-opening and closing the doors

I'm pinching that for my sig!!

 

[GemmaR]

Bill? You mean Steve....Bill's not running MS anymore.
All I can say to that is...weird! But I'm glad it worked out for you.

Weird to say the least...
Bill may be officially offstage now, but you know: a father's always a father
MS = Bill in everybody's mind

 

[GemmaR]

... if your windows car won't start, try re-opening and closing the doors

I'm pinching that for my sig!!

It was an old joke involving 3 men caught up in a car that won't start.
One of them was a MS eingeneer. His suggestion was "why don't we try getting out of the car and then back in again?"

 

[allend66]

I have a problem myself with this kind of stuff: my music folder contains various and different mp3, each one of them has its own cover picture embedded in the tag.
Unfortunately the system has decided to pick one of those tags (random) and make a "folder.jpg" and an "albumartsmall.jpg" out of it.
This happened the moment I inserted album art in the files tags.
No matter how many times I remove those 2 files (which makes no sense having in this folder): they always reappear.
Is there a way I can avoid it, without having to remove all album art from each file?

Thanks

It's a bit of a botch job, but you could delete the pesky reappearing jpgs, put a blank txt file in the folder, rename the file to that you've deleted, (and change the extension to jpg) and set the attributes to read only & hidden - that should prevent WMP from dumping new albumart-jpgs in there. That way the individual album art should show up in WMP for each track, but the folder in Windows won't have any picture in it. That's what you wanted, isn't it?

 

[GemmaR]

I have a problem myself with this kind of stuff: my music folder contains various and different mp3, each one of them has its own cover picture embedded in the tag.
Unfortunately the system has decided to pick one of those tags (random) and make a "folder.jpg" and an "albumartsmall.jpg" out of it.
This happened the moment I inserted album art in the files tags.
No matter how many times I remove those 2 files (which makes no sense having in this folder): they always reappear.
Is there a way I can avoid it, without having to remove all album art from each file?

Thanks

It's a bit of a botch job, but you could delete the pesky reappearing jpgs, put a blank txt file in the folder, rename the file to that you've deleted, (and change the extension to jpg) and set the attributes to read only & hidden - that should prevent WMP from dumping new albumart-jpgs in there. That way the individual album art should show up in WMP for each track, but the folder in Windows won't have any picture in it. That's what you wanted, isn't it?

Believe it or not, I had tried that too, creating a real jpg file with a blank picture.
OS would overwrite it eventually

Do you think that it was wmp that did it?
I never run it...

 

[allend66]

@Gemma - no idea, but did you try it with attributes SRHA? (system, read only, hidden archived)

 

[noobvious]

I always set mine to read-only status once I have them tagged my way....someone suggested that to me a while back as a way to maintain them since I have multiple portable players(six at last count :shock. I didn't know if it would apply here, because I don't have single songs in a main folder like Gemma does.....but maybe it is the answer after all! Good thought, allend66