[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] curious george:
A Way To Fix Your Album Art Once And Going Forward

A_C, Hope this helps with all the questions you get on this problem.

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Alot of you have had a huge problem lately with album art and song indexing so I would like to present a possible solution. Granted, this is not the only way to fix it. But I have found that once this fix is applied it corrects current tracks and albums and those going forward.

It will require the use of your Desktop Windows Media Player. If you don't have it you can download it here.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/download/download.aspx

As much as people may not like WMP it has some phenominal indexing, album art and even lyric searching capabilities.

You will have to have the music you need this information for on your PC. It doesn't have to stay there. Once you are finished with the steps it and the music is back on your device you may remove it from the PC. For a lot of people you will be able to simply us the WMP search and it will notify and import all your music, movies, videos etc... Once it has done that it will start to catalogue all your music into Albums, Artists, Songs, Genre, etc...

1.) Now to get Album art. In Desktop WMP select Album on the Library index. If you have albums without album covers with a generic disc instead of the picture of the album art do the following:

Right click on the Album you want to update

Select: "Find Album Info" from the drop down info

A box will pop up that has 3 options Search, Finish, Cancel

Use the search function to have WMP locate the Album on the internet.

*Important*

When you use this Search function to update the Album WMP will sometimes want to save by default the entire Album list on your PC. You will need to only select the the songs you have. You can either do it as you do the search update or you can let it default save all of the titles and then remove them once it is done.

2.) Once the Update is done the Album should auto update with the new art, album name, and titles you have. It sometimes takes a minute. If it doesnt update on its own then simply close out Media Player and reload it. That quickly reindex's the changes.

3.) If you have songs by artists that you don't know the album it was one you can sort the WMP Library by Artist and follow the same list of Proceedures and since the search is intuative it will mostly likely tell you the name of the album and save it to the artist info. Again close WMP and restart it to see the changes.

*Note* You may have to add info to the song manually. To do that simply select the song with a right click of you mouse and select "Edit" from the pop up menu. Fill in at least the name of the track and artist. Then try the Album search again.

Making these changes will index the music to work with S2P category view. A_C, has set up S2P to search the Storage\Music\Artists\Album...etc.

*Strong Recommendation Here* Make sure you delete any copies of the music off your device before placing the new files on. If you don't you can create all sorts of duplicate entry issues.

4.) Placing the music on you device now will be easy. Simply connect you divice to your PC using the ActiveSync. Open Desktop WMP and create a Sync connection with your Storage Card not the device. Grab the Songs or entire Albums or Artists and drag them to the sync pannel and let WMP do the rest of the work.

If you like you can use file explorer to do the transfer if you know where you have all your music catalogued on your PC.

I will update this How Too as time and information allows.

Thanks,

Curious George