Groove does not display any Album or Artist Art

From my recent experiments, Groove will read ID3 tags, but does not read folder art.

WMP had a horrible system of storing multiple files in each directory for album art. In this case, the change was good.

Thanks for the response Jason but Im afraid it doesn't answer my original question. It seems a pretty useless  app if it cant display artwork. Might just as well use explorer.

It can display, you just have to embed or hope for a match. Unfortunately, the app is not sophisticated enough to help you with that task. :(

I have ~2k albums, and all are currently displaying artwork. I have also been curating with Tag & Rename

for so long that my collection looks good in any program. :)

I'll agree with Jason's earlier comment. Previous implementations of Media Player and Windows Media Center filled up my music library with wonky image files that stored various sizes of album art thumbnails. Most of the time the files were hidden, but once in a while (especially when moving sets of files between PCs), they'd become visible, and whoa what a mess! I was also surprised at how much disk space they all consumed.

Groove uses the album art stored within the IDv3 tag instead. Now if you have a large music collection separated into folders with folder.jpg files, then I'd recommend using a tool like the excellent (and free) Mp3tag to batch write the album art into each file's tag. Here's how:

1. Download, install, and open Mp3tag.
2. Click File > Change Directory, select the top-level folder to search for music, and click Select Folder. The mp3 files will be imported into Mp3tag.
3. Click Actions > Actions. The Action Group window is displayed.
4. Click New, type a name for the action (such as "Fix Album Art", without the quotes), and click OK. The Actions window is displayed.
5. Click New, select Import Cover from File, and click OK.
6. Type a format string for the image filename (such as "folder.jpg", without the quotes), select a metadata tag for the imported image (I typically choose Front Cover), and click OK.

Note: If you already have album art embedded into some mp3 files, you can check the Delete Album Art option to prevent Mp3tag from storing multiple cover art images in the metadata. 7. Click OK to close the Actions window and click OK to close the Action Group window. 8. Mp3tag runs the action and displays the result.

If you no longer need the assorted folder images, you can also use Mp3tag to rename/restructure you library into a fresh set of folders and then delete the old ones. Voila!

Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions.