Internet Explorer 7 Overwriting Album Art with Black JPEGs?

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Dennis — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:25:24 GMT

Sorry, the above should read:

I run XP home , IE6 and WMP11

Don't run IE7 or MCE

Dennis

re: Internet Explorer 7 Overwriting Album Art with Black JPEGs?

Dennis — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:18:22 GMT

I don't run XP home , IE6 and WMP11

No IE7 or MCE but:

I still get the occasional blacked out album art.

AlbumArtSmall.jpg goes to a 75x75 black square at 727 bytes.

Folder.jpg goes to a 200x200 black square at 1.27KB.

Go figure....

Dennis

Microsoft has been made aware of the stupid issue

A. Klass — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:33:48 GMT

I have recieved support from the Microsoft tech supervisor and they are now aware that the problem is being caused by IE7 (because I went back to IE6 and that fixed the problem). I have Windows XP MCE2005 and WMP11.

Hopefully there is a fix soon...

re: Internet Explorer 7 Overwriting Album Art with Black JPEGs?

Björn — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 02:44:40 GMT

I have a workaround using a mass rename utility to preserve the album art utility. There are probably better methods, but here is how I do it:

http://hem.passagen.se/bjarnar/albumart.htm

re: Internet Explorer 7 Overwriting Album Art with Black JPEGs?

Space Fractal — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:26:59 GMT

I have the same problem about folder.jpg, and I have Vista RC2 and wmp11. So these bugs it is NOT fixed.

It just eat folder.jpg with somebody other and hidden that file (why can they doing without asking the user?). I may now rename all files to cover.jpg and use a another player.

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allab — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:08:38 GMT

I have been getting the same problem, album art looks fine in WMP11 but in MCE2005 albums show black when on now playing screen. But it seems to be only MP3's with embeded images, as soon as I remove the embeded image the album art is displayed. Hope this helps.

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CeeCee — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:42:45 GMT

Sad to hear that Microsoft are not taking this seriously (the amount of hours making cover art !) What is strange is that under Vista RC2 all cover art works without a problem and this is with IE7 and WMP11. Obviously they expect everyone to upgrade to Vista !

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Darrel — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 21:49:46 GMT

I have the same problem with some of the new albums I added to my library after IE7 and WMP11 were installed on my MCE2005ru2 machine. The thumbnail in MCE Album view and other small images were fine, but the larger View Cover image and the small image while the music was playing were both all black. Uninstalling IE7 fixed it for me. Not sure why. Don't care, but I hope it is fixed at some point along with other odd album art behavior.

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Paul — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 12:09:39 GMT

What 'WMP 11 User' writes is correct, WMP 11 is messing up your own cover art (and I don't think this has anything to do with IE7) and deleted my own for more than 300 albums (I'm furious... all my scan work for nothing !!!!).

Is there any way I can stop WMP11 from doing this... unsettings the Add Media stuff doesn't seem to work anymore like it did fine in WMP10 ????

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Chris — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:31:01 GMT

I brought the IE7 issue of blacking out album art during playback (not in the album view though) during the Microsoft MCE2005 Expert Chat today (http://www.microsoft.com/communities/chats/default.mspx )

They were unaware of the issue and referred me to the user community (MCE05 newsgroups and the greenbutton pages), which have this issue discussed multiple places. They must not read the chat groups... So it seems like they are burying their head in the sand on this one... I bet the MCE05 group is pointing at the IE7 group and vice versa.....

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Nanko — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:05:08 GMT

Home network with:

1 PC with MCE and MP10

1 PC with all my MP3 music files on it and MP10.

All mp3's have embedded cover art

All mp3's from the same album are in the same folder with a folder.jpg file

The MCE PC scans the other PC for music files. This was working fine until I installed IE7 on both PC's. As described above in MCE the album art was OK, but while playing a song the cover became black for about 50% of the songs. Then I deleted all music from MP10 on the MCE PC and rescanned them. Now all (100%) of the song art became black. The album art was still OK.

I just uninstalled IE7 from the MCE PC (the other with the MP3's on it still has IE7) and indeed suddenly all song art is OK!

A realy weird bug. How can IE7 influence this in MCE?

WMP keeps replacing deleted black artwork

John — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 08:36:28 GMT

This has been a problem for me long before IE7 came into the picture. About 20% of my album art is black. I followed some of the instructions posted above and got nowhere, but I figured out why I'm getting nowhere.

Windows Media Player keeps replacing that stupid black artwork a few seconds after I delete it. It's infuriating. Does anyone know why this is and how to make it stop trying to think for me???

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Mannyo — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:53:37 GMT

I too have this problem with album art and MCE after installing IE, although I have yet to experience the destruction of my folder.jpg files.

Uninstalled IE7, Problem Solved

Chris F. — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:59:59 GMT

I was having the same problem with black artwork when playing albums in MCE (as well as with Media Center on my XBox 360). I didn't know if it was IE7 or WMP11 causing the problem, as I had installed both at the same time. I uninstalled IE7, and I no longer have the artwork problem.

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Chris — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:58:39 GMT

Hallo there,

I have a similar problems (I think) with looking at viedos in the internet. I can watch Youtubes or also filmtrailers at sonypictures.com with Quicktime or Realplayer!! When I want to start the same trailer with WMP10 or 11 I only see a black screen and the video isn´t started. This problem came up after installing IE7. I already deinstalled, reinstalled and reupdated IE7 and WMP but nothing solved the problem. Anybody a clue??

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Waleed — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:06:05 GMT

I too am experiencing the same issues after installing IE7. However I find that WMP11 has no impact. The Album art covers show well. In MCE 2005, I see all the album art in the collections list, however I get the black jpegs when albums are playing only. What I did was delete all album art with the exception of Album Art Small.jpg and Folder.jpg

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Tom — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:50:24 GMT

Sorry I meant the "folder.jpegs" are hidden!! Instead of visible files.

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Tom — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:34:26 GMT

One thing I did was to uncheck the "Hide Protected Operating System Files" and I do see my album art files and guess what. None of them are black so I know they are there. They are just hidden and MCE2005 cannot pick them up because the "folder.jpegs" are all gone now! Thanks to the rescan.

Try this to prove WMP11 mucks up cover art (though not the black symptom)

WMP 11 User — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:27:07 GMT

Ok, just to put the theory about WMP11 messing up cover art (BUT NOT THE BLACK COVER ART ISSUE!) to the test for you all.....Works for WMP11 on XP or Vista but the locations specified here relate to XP Pro/MCE 2005.

So try this:

1. In a test folder, put subfolders containing songs for each artist eg Alanis Morisette, Alice Cooper etc etc etc.

2 . Then drop YOUR own cover art into each folder - This may be just a 300x300 pixel generic picture of the artist with the artist name or if you sort by album names, an album cover. For purpose of this test, use a different album cover to the ACTUAL album name THIS IS IMPORTANT.

3. Log on as a user that doesnt have a library database (or delete from your local profile in Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player\CurrentDatabasexxx.wmdb)

4. Add the folder as a folder to monitor in WMP11 under options. Wait until scan of the folder is completed.

5. Voila ! See your folder.jpg's have been COMPLETELY overwritten and the file attribute changed to a hidden one.

If you replace step 3 with a RESCAN for a user that had an exiting database, and you dont manually delete the DB as in step 3, you will notice that your Folder.jpg MIGHT still be in the folder, but it is displayed as something else in both WMP11 and MCE (Mce in Albums view). This is because WMP11 tried to be clever and take a random embedded cover art picture from one of your tracks for each folder scanned and copied it to the local cache. Each filename in the cache is a GUID number with the extension .JPG.

The cache can be deleted and this will force WMP11 and MCE to use the folder.jpgs in the track folders.

C: \Documents & Settings\userid\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player\ArtCache\LocalMLS

Personally, I don't sort by Album names. I put all songs by one artist into one subfolder from my Music root folder.

Im sick of WMP11 messing up my own Folder.jpg's everytime I do a library scan.

A bug NOT in previous versions of Media Player (the bug in MP10 before was only when u ripped extra tracks from a CD that had been ripped from before. In this scenario, it would then overwrite the custom Folder.jpg's for the songs already ripped to disk)

re: Internet Explorer 7 Overwriting Album Art with Black JPEGs?

UK User — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:10:45 GMT

This doesnt work for me as the cover art itself is not black just displays as black in MCE when song is selected for playing.