Mediascape not showing/using Album Art

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I was wondering if anyone else is having this problem and/or knows how to fix it.

I can see in Media Go that an album/song has album art attached to it (I can even see that there is album art in Windows explorer and iTunes). I've tried deleting/adding the art via 3rd party mp3 tagging software but that doesn't seam to make a difference.

I've tried copying the music using Media Go and dragging and dropping onto the memory card but the art still doesn't show on the phone. The funny thing is that it's not all albums, just a 'select' few.

I've also tried downloading the art via the phone itself however it either can't find the art or it's wrong.

Anyone know how to fix this?

I believe it has something to do with the aspect ratio of the album art. if it isn't a perfect square (500x500 or 450x450 for example) mediascape will not recognize the album art.

Thanks for the response, I've checked and that doesn't seam to be the case (some art which shows is not square and some art which doesn't show is square).

Also when Mediascape searches for album art it sometimes finds (wrong) old shaped album covers.

Any other ideas?

I had a problem like this before. Try this.

Go to your SD card and there's a folder called "albumthumbs" which stores a cached version of all the album covers. Delete all the files in this folder. Mediascape will then re-cache with all your updated album covers.

It fixed most of my albums but there are still a few that aren't right.

Hope that helps.

Nope, that didn't work either, in fact not the are more albums without art!

I had the same issue. I've not figured the reason, but I've worked around it removing the album art and adding it again with Mp3tag.

Did you try the "retrieve the album art" feature of mediascape ? (reading your post it's unclear whether or not you know about the feature)
It's really simple, just get a wi-fi connection, and it'll automatically read the album tags to get the proper album art.
I know it worked perfectly for me, also the phone didn't show any of the album art (even though some of my tracks had one) before doing that.

I tried re tagging my tracks with (Easy CD-DA Extractor) still no luck. Every single other player on my PC, stereo, Car etc. can read the the album art but not mediascape

Re: Mediascape not showing/using Album Art

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This is my trick:
1. Clear all unnecessary tag from the file (eg: using eyeD3).
2. Inject album art to the file (eg: using albumart-qt).
3. Copy the file back to device.
4. Remove all Mediascape cache data (from Manage Apps menu).
5. Restart the device.

All the tools I use is running on Linux, but I'm sure there's counterpart tool on other platform.

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I sprung for the album art grabber app from the market. It allows you search the net or add art from the SD card.