Here's a problem I've been having for at least the last 5 revisions.

Occasionally I get different album covers between the Now Playing view and the albumlist/songlist areas.

For example, right this second, Avril Lavigne's little head should be peering at me in Now Playing, because autoplay mode has brought up a song from her album "Under My Skin". Instead, I'm seeing an album cover from what appears to be "American Idol Season 3", even though I don't think I have any songs which ever would have even put that cover on my hard drive. If I click on the name of the album in Now Playing, in the songlist area I do indeed see the PROPER album cover and not those annoying American Idol kids. If I edit the song's database entry I ALSO see the proper album cover.

However the only way to get "Now Playing" to show the proper cover appears to be to actually CHANGE the album cover in the database record--even though it appears to be correct already. If I go to Allmusic.com, for example, and manually capture the URL of an album cover, and THEN paste it into the database record... THAT will work.

Any ideas? Given the fact that I'm pretty sure I don't even HAVE a song that's on the AI3 album, I don't think it's as simple as a dababase looking at the wrong place. And it's not like it's looking the song up incorrectly if the proper cover is being shown elsewhere in eJ. Also, it seems to be fairly random which albums this happens for. It's mostly marginal artists--where I might only have a song from an album and not the whole thing, but it's annoying.

Okay, the actual albums and songs may not be important, but who knows? It's also happening to songs from the new Wilco album--"A Ghost Is Born". I don't know what it's displaying, but its certainly not the right thing. I get the little picture of an egg that's supposed to be the cover in the album/songlists and some green swirly thing in the Now Playing.

These album covers had ID3 tag encoded images correct?...

This sounds like it might be related to the bug (in v3.76 - v3.85) that was causing ID3 tag encoded cover images not to be saved to the eJukebox database during music database building, resulting in covers disappearing after the images in the hard drive based cache expired.

If you click the album cover inside the editor to view the large version of the image do you see the "messed up" one?

Rebuilding your database under v3.86 should fix this problem and prevent it from occurring again.

Ah, ok....well it must just be a few songs in the online lookup database have wrong large covers for the same album. You can use eJukebox to set the correct allmusic.com image by clicking the "Use Image from..." button in the editor .... then click the "SetImage4All" button that appears after you specify the image to apply it to all songs with the same artist and album name.

You should be able to see your popularity stats on the homeview if you change the "Only show entries when the Song or a song from the Artist/Album has been played in the last: " selectbox option on the homeview page to "Disabled"

You mean rebuilding the database isn't supposed to reset all my popularity settings (okay, I don't know for sure it's ALL of them, but at the least all of the elements visible on the Top 10 songs, Top 5 Albums and Top Artists lists, even if the Option is set to Disabled)?

This has always been one of my objections to having to rebuild so often (besides losing enhanced information on OOG and WMA files). When I do a rebuild, bam... the Top 10 Songs, Top 5 Albums and Top Artists information on the homepage resets to blank. Is there a setting for this or am I just misunderstanding the situation?

As for the large image being wrong, I guess my concern is less about how to fix it (I'd gotten that far) and more to see if I could keep it from happening again to future songs. Is that large image stored somewhere different from the small one? I know the problem isn't inherently fixed with my existing files unless I overwrite the album cover, but is it likely to happen again with new covers I look up?

Popularity pick count data should be restored, after rebuilding, for all mp3 files on local hard drives. It will be lost for non-mp3 files or files on networked drives, after rebuilding.

RE: The different large album cover problem should not happen very often...it is just a problem with the online lookup database not having a large version of the particular image available. Rebuilding doesn't fix or correct this particular problem. The only way to prevent this from happening is to "Use Image From..." in the editor to permanently set the correct image.