Cover Art
With Media Center, you can easily display an album’s cover art while listening to the album. That’s not all. You can set Media Center to automatically get the cover art over the internet for any album you rip. Or better yet, automatically see which albums are missing cover art, and have Media Center get it for you overnight.
Automatically Get Cover Art after Ripping
Go to Tools | Options | Device Settings and select “Get cover art from internet after ripping”.
Automatically see which files are missing cover art
Media Center comes with an automatic Smartlist, set to display all tracks which have no cover art.
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Go to Playlists in the tree, select Auto Smarlists (music), then click on Task – no images.
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Select some (or all) files from the list, right-click, select Cover Art, then choose from the menu (see list below for menu items).
Get Cover Art for Selected Files.
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Right click on file(s) in the content pane.
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Select Cover Art and choose from the available options on the menu.
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Add From File |
Browse to the file on your hard drive. Use this if the image isn’t stored in your Cover Art directory. |
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Quick Find in File/ |
Media Center will automatically look through your default Cover Art directory for the image, and link it to your file. |
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Get from Internet… |
Download (if missing). Use this for files that have no Cover Art. It’s a good option for when multiple files are selected, because it will not overwrite any files that already have Cover Art. Download (always). If you have the wrong Album Cover associated with a file, use this option. Use already downloaded cover art. Select a Tolerance level. |
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Get from Scanner… |
Automatically get an image from your scanner. You may have to first select your scanner. |
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Select Scanner… |
Select your default scanner. |
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Paste from Clipboard |
See “Copy to Clipboard”. |
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Copy to Clipboard |
Copy an image to the clipboard, and quickly paste it as another file’s Cover Art. |
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Remove Cover Art |
Removes links to Cover Art, as well as Cover Art stored in the file’s tags. You can also permanently remove the image from your hard drive by clicking ‘Yes’ in the dialogue box that appears when you select this option. |
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Play/Show (first file) |
This plays the image in full screen mode. It will play the image for just the first file if more than one track is selected. |
You can also quickly view which files have cover art by adding the “image” header to the columns in the content pane list. Just right-click on any header in the list, go to “Visible Columns” and select “image file”.
Default Cover Art Directory:
The default Cover Art directory is: c:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\Data\Cover Art
Store Cover Art in file (if possible)
You cover art will always be associated with your files, as long as the files remain in the Media Center Library (or database). However, if you prefer to view the cover art with other players, you can save the image directly in your file.
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Select file(s)
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Open the File Properties pane (if it is hidden, double click on the File Properties splitter bar to the right of the content pane) and click on the navigation arrows at the top left of the File Properties pane until you come to “Image” (see screenshot). You can also just click on the drop-down arrow, and select “Image”
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Check “store images inside files (if possible)” near the bottom of the File Properties pane.
View Cover Art while listening to Music
Play files, then go to Playing Now. Make sure the Display Pane is visible. If the display plug-in is set to “none”, your cover art will display by default. You can double-click on the image to quickly toggle between full screen and windowed modes. See Display Plug-ins for details.