![]() ![]() ![]() Pro Tip: I’ve been writing about Windows for years and have quite an extensive Windows 11 help area. Please check it out to find lots of additional tutorials and guides while you’re here. Now that overview of the music library looks better: Luckily, this is not usually as bad as it sounds. If you have problems adding, deleting, or viewing your digital music library, then you might have a corrupt Windows Media Player database. Now you can simply drag the graphic off the page and drop it onto your Desktop! Then go back to that “Edit info” window in Media Player and drag and drop the image from your Desktop into the blank spot.Ī click on “ Save” and you’re done. 01 of 06 How to Fix a Corrupt Windows Media Player Library This quick fix shows you how to easily resolve a corrupt WMP library. A window opens on the right side of the search results page offering more detail of the image: Go to Google Image Search or Bing Image Search and type in the name of the album, artist, and “cd cover”:Ĭhoose one of the images that looks good (and as is typical, you’ll see slight variations in color and style in your own search results too), then click on it. Fortunately, it’s quite easy with modern image search tools. This is a good news/bad news scenario: It’s matched the album and shows the tracks, but there’s no album artwork displayed. To let Media Player do its thing, click on “ Update album info online“. You can also automatically update the album info online, always the best first step. Here’s where you can tweak and fix typos, update track names, even correct artist names if it’s wrong. There’s some redundancy here, but I’d rather have a feature in two locations than not know where it’s tucked away… ADD ARTWORK WITH A CLICKĬhoose “ Edit info” and you’ll get a pretty interesting and useful pop-up window: ” and if you click on that, a context menu appears with lots of useful options:.Okay, that’s a pretty cool interface element. Chose the top left and you’ll get the add-to-play-next pop-up toolbar: Fixable! First off, though, move your cursor over the graphic and three elements appear on the corners. Notice that the album Dream by Kitaro (full name Masanori Takahashi) is missing its artwork. When I open up Media Player here’s what I see: I have a pretty big music collection in Media Player, mostly electronica. Let’s have a look… WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER: MISSING ARTWORK The great news is that Media Player has a built-in artwork lookup feature that often adds the right image without much more than a single click. Since I like to see album and CD covers, however, missing artwork is more of an issue for me. There are tons of alternative media players for Windows, however, even including Apple Music (formerly iTunes), most of which I think look better, but… the reality is that once you get your music playing, you’re not really going to be looking at the app anyway, so it’s probably not that big a deal. Use a search tool like Search Everything to search, find and delete the offending album art files.Windows Media Player got a dramatic redesign in the last few years and while the functionality has improved, I have to agree with you that the appearance is clumsy and unaesthetic. Disable the option Retrieve additional information from the Internet. To disable these updates from inside Windows Media Player, choose Organize → Options. ![]() ![]() At first invocation, WMP throws up a setup wizard to configure the options for the software.ĭisable the option Update music files by retrieving media information from the Internet. This automatic update option can be disabled the first time a user invokes Windows Media Player. But thankfully, this irritant can be handled. However, I hate Windows or anyone messing with my media files and directories. These filenames are of the form: Album_Art_Small.jpgĪ lot of people like this feature, since it automatically downloads album art and creates overlays on media folder icons to look like CD covers. These show up as additional files inside the media directories. Windows Media Player has the nasty habit of adding album art to MP3 (and other media) files and directories it finds on the disc. □ 2010-Jul-07 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ □️ mp3, windows media player ⬩ □ Archive Windows Media Player: Stop Adding Album Art ![]()
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