Just a quick question, the answer of which I can not find anywhere searching this forum...
I love the album view (where the jewelcase is placed behind music folders) but it's not appearing on albums (folders) with only 1, 2, 3 tracks (files) within.
Is there a way to make sure all folders (and sub directories) are displayed using the "jewelcase" image method if there are underlying mp3/audio directly within?
As mentioned - this is only an issue with those folders contain on a couple tracks, etc.
Just a quick question, the answer of which I can not find anywhere searching this forum...
I love the album view (where the jewelcase is placed behind music folders) but it's not appearing on albums (folders) with only 1, 2, 3 tracks (files) within.
Is there a way to make sure all folders (and sub directories) are displayed using the "jewelcase" image method if there are underlying mp3/audio directly within?
As mentioned - this is only an issue with those folders contain on a couple tracks, etc.
Thanks for your help!!!
Regards,
Nathan[/quote]
Solved myself - set folder.jpg (or other image) to the following name:
hi, i hope that my poor etiquette may be forgiven~
since this problem has been resolved, i wish to submit a similar problem. in my case, it seems that even if i have folder with folder.jpg, if the files are .mpc or .mp4 (any non-mp3?), it willn't show jewelcase style thumbnail. is this normal? is this error on my part? can it be fixed with registry edit similar to the one used to allow opus to play .flv files?
I think the extensions that Opus looks for when deciding whether to use a jewel case for folder.jpg are hardcoded.
It would make sense for Opus to use the extensions in the Music file type group but I don't think it does at the moment. (Maybe it does and I just forgot this was changed, though.)
It's not a big deal though. Just rename or copy folder.jpg to coverart.jpg and it will force the jewel case to be used.
Sorry to jump in here, but how do you get to see these elusive jewelcases?
I have an mp3 folder containing a folder.jpg and (just for good measure) the same picture named coverart.jpg - yet I do not see any jewelcases no matter what settings I make to view the folder contents.
On a related matter, I also do not see the "Edit mp3 tags" context menu item despite having ticked the option in the configuration settings for the viewer.
It's a shame Opus uses content detection as it gets confused by cover art files and thinks that the MP3 folders are picture folders. So any albums containing less MP3 files than cover art files will not show the jewel cases.
Anyway if you have a lot of folders to go through create a batch file containing the following code in your MP3 directory and run it. All your albums will then show up with the jewel cases (as long as a folder.jpg exists in each one):
for /d %%i in (.) do echo f|xcopy /k /h "%%i\folder.jpg" "%%i\Coverart.jpg"
Why is it a shame? The alternative is that Opus doesn't try to guess at all and you have to explicitly rename folder.jpg to coverart.jpg in all cases, rather than just the ones where the guess is wrong. It seems better to get it right automatically in most cases than to not do it at all, right?
Heh, Yes you are right, I would rather it at least have a go at guessing. I wouldn't have even known about the jewel case view otherwise.
I was hoping I could avoid having to to manually create a few hundred coverart.jpg files using folder formats but I couldn't figure out a way to do it. The batch file sorted it out anyway.
You can do the folder.jpg to coverart.jpg rename using Opus instead of a batch file but, yeah, you still have to rename the files one way or the other to force the jewel cases on for certain folders.
If the batch file works you might as well stick with it, but if you want to do it in Opus you can rename from, say, folder.jp* to coverart.jp*. (Doing a rename without wildcards, like folder.jpg to coverart.jpg, will only apply the rename to a single file. Using the wildcard makes Opus apply the rename to all selected files, allowing you to use either Flat View or a recursive rename to rename lots of files at once.)
. Can you show me an example please?