Thumbnail jewelcase | folder.jpg instead of coverart.jpg?

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Greetings,

since my system upgrade from XP to Win7 I can't get along with the new Windows-Explorer.
DOpus (9.5) looks like a promising alternative which I want to test.
But I have the following Problem:

Situation
My music archiv consists folders with *.mp3, *.flac and *.mpc (musepack) files.
Each folder contains a "folder.jpg".

Problem
If I set DOpus to thumbnail view, all folders which contains MP3 or FLAC files, are viewed in the handsome jewelcase view.
But Folders with MPC files are displayed in the XP like Thumbnail view.
This results unfortunately in a unsteady chaos.

unsatisfied solution
If I rename all "folder.jpg" of the music archive to "coverart.jpg" all folder are viewed in the jewelcase thumbs.
Downside of the solution: Foobar doesn't recognize in its "Album Art View" the coverart. Foobar supports AFAIK only "folder.jpg". Another downside of renaming is, that Win7/XP doesn't view the folder covers in its thumbnail view.

desired solution
is it possible to set DOpus to view besides *.mp3 and *.flac folder, also the folders containing *.mpc (musepack), in the jewelcase thumbnail view? Or at least deactivate the jewelcase completley, so that all folders are viewed equal in the XP style thumbnail view?

THX FOR SUPPORT and HINTS :slight_smile:
michael

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cannot edit my post :frowning:

ENGLISH VERSION of the pic above:

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Easiest solution for now, if you want jewel cases, is to have both folder.jpg and coverart.jpg in the Musepack album folders. (You could use a hardlink so there's still only one copy of the image data; personally I just make two copies of the files in the folders where auto-detection doesn't work, e.g. an album with one long single-file track.)

Or if you don't want jewel cases at all, you can turn off auto-detection of them (so they only happen if there's a coverart.jpg and never when there is only folder.jpg) under Preferences / Miscellaneous / Advanced: no_folder_cd_thumbs.

In the longer term, I mentioned this to drop GPSoft a request and they'll add the .mpc to the auto-jewel-case extensions in a future version as it's a very easy change to make.

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Thx you Leo,

I just figured out the "hidden" no_folder_cd_thumbs option a minute ago for myself. Up to now, I am working with this solution.

Your first point is great, to copy the coverart.jpg in all mpc-folders, too. "Unfortunately" i have a lot of mpc-folders. I will have a look to get an batch-cmd for this operation.

And maybe GPSoft grants my request in the future.
Thanks again for your hints :slight_smile:
michael