Widows Media Player question....?

Question

My daughter is ripping all her CD's to WMP 11, since they will take up a bit of space, she has bought a USB portable hard drive to keep the MP3 files on, and also back up other stuff like photos etc. I changed the storage location in WMP and copied the music folder to the new drive but none of the cover art displayed! Is the cover art held in a different folder, or did I miss on something else. Which folders should I copy to the portable drive before I can delete from the HD and run WMP from the USB drive? Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

When you copy the music files across, it should of also copied the album images as they are normally stored in the same directory as the music.



If you are on the internet, go into WMP, click on Library tab, you can right click on the album and click "Update album info" and see if that finds your album art. If that doesn't work try the option above it "Find album info".



If the above works, then in the library (make sure you are in the Album view on the left side list, Ctrl+A to select all albums and right click "Update album info"



hopefully that solves the problem.

Answer 2

The cover art is saved as hidden files so the copy wouldn't have moved them over.



Make them visible and then redo the copy.

To make them visible open my computer and go to Tools | Folder Options.

Select the View table.



In advance settings select show hidden files and folders. Also unselect "Hide protected operating system files" and then click ok.



If you browse through the music folders you will now see several files show up that you didn't before.



Repeat the copy you had done before and this will get all of the system files.



Once that is done you'll want to restore the options to hide all of the files again. Just to protect the system. So, go back to My computers folder options, select "Do Not Show Hidden Files and Folders" and select "Hide protected operating system files"

Answer 3

i have wmp 11 and it has done this to me to, and i didn't even move the files! it is supposed to look on the internet for cover art, but apparently it doesn't do that. im not sure how to fix it, but it isn't a problem with the cover art being in a different folder