Groove does not display any Album or Artist Art

Anonymous
2015-08-10T12:58:00+00:00

How do you get Groove to display Album Art? The App seems to have located my music folders just fine as they all seem to be there but not one piece of Album Art. Windows Media Player on the other hand has reloaded everything just fine.

Windows for home | Other | Music, photos, and video

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-11-13T06:09:49+00:00

    All my music is in mp3 format as well, with metadata edited in Mp3Tag... I had album art in XBox Music on W8 and 8.1 just fine but nothing in Groove.

    Edit: By the way, this comments section really kills my Lumia 1520. There's a two second delay for each letter or digit I enter, so by the time I'm done with a sentence, the text on the screen is several words late. And fixing spelling errors is a complete nightmare, as the cursor is all over the place! I managed to ride from one train station to the next in the time it took it to finish the last sentence after I stopped typing!!! Just before, it actually crashed the phone!

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-13T05:43:43+00:00

    Is it possible those using MP3 don't experience this issue with Groove?

     All my music is encoded as MP3s using dbpoweramp and I experience the same issue.

    • Album art displays in file explorer
    • Album art displays in WMP
    • Album art displays in iTunes
    • Album art displays on my Windows 8 phone
    • Album art even displays in my wife's car!

    Album art doesn't display in Groove.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-11-11T20:48:03+00:00

    Well I spent a fruitless few hours trying to track this down the other day when I spotted that for one album out of 1300 or so, Groove was displaying the cover art! Great! I thought I can examine that album's tags, see what's different about them and be a step closer to a solution.

    I split off a different album and made that folder the target for Groove. It worked, so I added a second album. No success. I tried various combinations of Music library folders, made MP3Tag remove and write various flavours of IDV3 tags all to no avail. Only for the first album, copied alone into the library folder did Groove display artwork. Adding subsequent albums, or adding in groups or all at once had no effect. Only one album at a time ever displays correctly in Groove. Meanwhile, WMP Zune and iTunes all have no problem whatsoever.

    There is a real issue for some users here, so it would be helpful if Microsoft would acknowledge that.

    I don't use MP3, Only AAC and Flac. Is it possible those using MP3 don't experience this issue with Groove?

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-10-31T07:05:28+00:00

    I have added album art to EVERY song in my 64 gb collection with MP3TAG using the Extended Tags -> Add cover function. 

    It worked fine in Xbox Music.

    None of my songs are showing album art in Groove Music. None.

    I'm not going through that entire process again...

    It

    Should

    Just

    Work

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-10-31T06:43:38+00:00

    I have edited every single song in my 64 gb collection with MP3TAG, and none of them are showing imbedded art. None.

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