Arranging You’re MP3 Collection (and a small problem)

[Anfield Fox]

I don’t know if anyone else does this but I use the cover of an album for each folder. This creates a virtual CD collection which is almost as good as the real thing.

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To Do This (Windows XP)

Put all the mp3’s to one album in a single folder (This will be a subfolder of you’re main music folder)
Get the cover of the album from amazon.com
Click properties > Customise > Choose Picture > (Insert album cover)

Now go back to you’re main music folder and hit View > Thumbnails

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The problem - While this looks great I’m sick of the time it takes to maintain it. Album covers keep interchanging by themselves (so say a “2Pac” cover will be on a “Nirvana” album and vice-versa). Not only that but the sub (album) folders will often change from being a “music” folder to a “picture” folder (It’s just an inconvenience changing it back to “music” every time you want to play the entire album.

It’s either a small bug in the Windows OS or something I’ve overlooked. HELP?!?!!

[Malicious Intent]

WMP9 does this automatically for you. The spyware that must be involved in that is a small price for not having to find the pictures and add them to the correct folders.

[Anfield Fox]

Originally posted by Malicious Intent
WMP9 does this automatically for you. The spyware that must be involved in that is a small price for not having to find the pictures and add them to the correct folders.

Yeah but i have the .jpg for each cover in the album folder. Is there a way to turn this feature off in WMP9? The same thing happened with the previous version of WMP so i'm not sure that's the reason.

[Lamourlady]

that is cool way of cataloguing your music.
i would love to do it.....and would love to hear any solutions to your bug.
great idea!