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Cover Issues, and crashes
jojo - 7-28-2004 at 10:49 PM

I noticed the strangest couple of things lately, the first is, If the album is listed as "Greatest Hits" it pulls something like Gloria Estafan's Greatest hits, regardless of who is actually playing. The second, If I try and do a tag lookup Ejukebox crashes without any warning or display of error. Any ideas here?

jhlurie - 7-31-2004 at 05:35 PM

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Originally posted by jojo@oregonfast.net
I noticed the strangest couple of things lately, the first is, If the album is listed as "Greatest Hits" it pulls something like Gloria Estafan's Greatest hits, regardless of who is actually playing. The second, If I try and do a tag lookup Ejukebox crashes without any warning or display of error. Any ideas here?

I don't know about the crashing, but it's an ongoing issue with a lot of us that the wrong cover seems to come up in "Now Playing". What you should notice is that if you edit the song inside eJ is that when you look there the cover will seem CORRECT. What's apparently happening, according to the explanation I recall from Audiosoft, is that whatever database eJ is getting these images from is VERY inconsistent with the "large" version of album cover images. You can prove this when you are inside the edit screen for this song. Double-click on the album cover. Instead of switching to a larger version of the correct cover what you will probably get INSTEAD in the "zoom view" is the same "wrong" album cover you noticed in "Now Playing".

For me, this happens with approximately 5% of my songs.

Now if your problem is JUST with "Greatest Hits" albums getting the wrong cover... that would be a different problem then. Mine happens to a lot of different stuff.

Whatever circumstances are causing it, wrong-cover problem in general can always be corrected (although it's annoying and you frequently LOSE the change when you rebuild your database) by finding your own version of the proper cover online in a place like ALLMUSIC.COM and inserting the URL for it manually inside the edit screen in the area where you lookup/define covers.

jojo - 8-2-2004 at 05:49 PM

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I don't know about the crashing, but it's an ongoing issue with a lot of us that the wrong cover seems to come up in "Now Playing". What you should notice is that if you edit the song inside eJ is that when you look there the cover will seem CORRECT. What's apparently happening, according to the explanation I recall from Audiosoft, is that whatever database eJ is getting these images from is VERY inconsistent with the "large" version of album cover images. You can prove this when you are inside the edit screen for this song. Double-click on the album cover. Instead of switching to a larger version of the correct cover what you will probably get INSTEAD in the "zoom view" is the same "wrong" album cover you noticed in "Now Playing".

For me, this happens with approximately 5% of my songs.

Now if your problem is JUST with "Greatest Hits" albums getting the wrong cover... that would be a different problem then. Mine happens to a lot of different stuff.

Whatever circumstances are causing it, wrong-cover problem in general can always be corrected (although it's annoying and you frequently LOSE the change when you rebuild your database) by finding your own version of the proper cover online in a place like ALLMUSIC.COM and inserting the URL for it manually inside the edit screen in the area where you lookup/define covers.


Hmm, actually it seems to only occur when the album is listed as "Greatest Hits" It always seems to pull Gloria Estafan's Greatest Hits ??

aaronND2000 - 8-29-2004 at 03:56 PM

I've been having the same problem for some time now. It happens when I am importing new albums and I do the lookup. It will grab some random album cover to display, but if i go to edit it, it is showing the correct one. Sure would like this one to get fixed...