Groove does not display any Album or Artist Art

At the end of using win xp pro, I was asked to store & backup doc., file, music etc. into SkyDrive. Then my pc switch into win7 for a short time.

Finally the win7 files created at Dec 2015 was transfer to OneDrive/win10 pro pc.

I use Groove + OneDrive to playback music with Driect X 12.0 / ALC662 driver 6.01.7541

The problem is that some cd's art/details become chinese simplified, but all the files in OneDrive was in chinese traditional (look like some problem with English - Spanish)

I understand its not easy to solve those question all around the world one by one.

But Groove let me enjoy CAS music with my G31 motherboard.

Since updating to Windows 10 Creators Update (v1703) I noticed that my 350 GB collection of mostly MP3 with some FLAC music was missing some album art which was previously showing in Anniversary Update (v1607). Oddly, it was music that I had recently added which displayed its album art in Groove but now didn't post-upgrade. All of my music uses ID3v2.3 tags and has embedded 600x600 art taken from JPGs and PNGs. Anyway, Groove previously displayed them all fine and I noticed more and more album art disappearing in the days following the Windows upgrade.

Note all album art continues to be displayed correctly in Windows Media Player, iTunes and Media Monkey. I've never had ANY issues displaying album art, embedded or otherwise, in any of those programs, only Groove!

So I decided to do an app reset of the Groove app and let it rebuild its database in the hope of fixing the issue. It didn't as now *all* the songs now show with a generic music icon! Despite leaving the program open for a day the album art has never reappeared. I have even tried removing the Music folder (My Music stored on my I drive) and readding it; I've deleted the library from WMP and let it rebuild; nothing works although the music has all being added and plays fine otherwise. Just without album art.

I then discovered that some MP3s that I had in my H:\Download folder, which I copied there temporarily, were displaying the album art when I double-clicked on them and played them in Groove (since it is set as the default player). To confuse things further, I've just played an MP3 this way (double-clicking to open it) direct from my Music folder on the I drive and it didn't show any album art. However, if I copy this exact same file to the H:\Downloads folder then the album art displays when the track plays!!!

Why?

Clearly Groove *can* read the embedded album art but it seems to ignore it if it is the one location where I've always stored my music, namely I:\Users\Dazza1967\Music (relocated years ago from my C drive for space reasons... well it is 350 GB in size after all!).

P.S. I have the automatic album art/metadata retrieval option DISABLED as I don't trust the app not to completely mess up the correct metadata and art already embedded in all my music.

Just why does the ancient Windows Media Player cope with embedded art just fine but Groove doesn't?

Hey,

I've got the opposite question...

When I scroll through my artists on Groove they each have thumbnails beside them showing album art (some of them) others just show a generic one as show below...

My question is - how can I get Groove to hide the thumbnails so that I can see more artists in a sort of list view.

Hope you can help!

I finally got all my music in FLAC format to display album cover artwork in Groove on my desktop Windows 10 system, after many hours of trial and error.

I have over 1400 albums and it took hours and hours to get there, by adding 7 albums at a time.

I use FLAC with album art at 500x500 embedded in the track files. Tag data edited by the excellent MP3Tag. The files are not held under my windows profile, but on another local disc drive. There are 5 folders each holding 300 albums.

After the recent update I noticed just a few of my albums were displaying cover art correctly. So, I did more testing, adding just a few albums at a time, and it worked.

There was nothing wrong with the tags in my files. On my system, it was about how many albums are being adding in one go. When I add up to 7 albums it usually added the artwork after a few seconds.

The process that worked for me was: Start by adding my first folder, holding 300 album folders. Groove then loads the 300 albums, all but a few with no artwork. Then, delete the first 7 album folders using file explorer, restart Groove, wait for Groove to remove the same 7 albums, undo the delete, restart Groove again and wait for Groove to add the same 7 albums, this time with artwork.

Repeat for the next 7 albums until that folder is done and all 300 albums show artwork in Groove. Then add the next 300 album folder and repeat again untill all folders have been added.

It's important to restart Groove after each change as it doesn't remove or add albums otherwise.

If you add more than 7 albums the chances are Groove will then persistently fail to pick up the artwork when it re-adds them. In those cases I copied the album folder to somewhere else, deleted the original and copied back in. I think this worked because the time stamp of the files changes.

Sometimes it didn't pick up the artwork for all 7 of the newly re-added albums straightaway. It would get a few within a few seconds, then a few more after a few more seconds.

Some it would not get until you had moved on to the next 7 and deleted the folders of the next 7. When Groove removed the next 7, after a few seconds, the missing art from the previous 7 would appear.

The process gradually got slower as the number of albums increased. At first, it took Groove about 60 seconds to recognise when album folders had been deleted, by the end it was up to about 3 minutes.

I also tested with other locations. If I did this under My Music under my user profile on the system disk (C:) it was much faster, cutting Groove's time to detect removal or addition of folders (albums) to just a few seconds.

A possible way to speed up the process is to start with an empty folder and gradually copy in your FLAC albums up to 7 at a time.

As well as watching Groove to see if the artwork is added you can also monitor the contents of this folder:

C:\Users*<your user name>*\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.ZuneMusic_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\ImageStore

Groove adds a file like this "NS_40nSLKDoXeUUq6q5TtRAK9rVyvpbGrq5nIVw3yo_0_0" with a random name for every artwork Groove finds. It's actually a 320x320 jpeg of the artwork found. If all goes well, this folder will contain 1 file for every album in Groove.

Groove still doesn't pickup any artist pictures, but I guess that's because I have set Groove to not automatically update from the internet. I don't want my collection of ripped CDs, carefully built up over many years, to be overwritten.

Hope that helps! Now to see if I can get my m4a (AAC) files to load...

Purely anecdotal,  but back in the iPod days iTunes TWICE renamed my entire 50 gb music collection with no undo option. I'm never ever going anywhere near iTunes again. Or Apple in general...