Album Art Oddity?

[Sherwoodforest]

Simon,

don't treat this as a priority, as I have a workaround/solution in line with my normal practice. This is more for info, and out of "puzzlement".

I've edited this after further intervention. Please don't try to progress - see bottom of post.

Minimserver 2 latest version.

I usually enable artwork via the "folder.jpg" method, and this for both album and tracks is quite acceptable to me.

However:

I have obtained a few new downloads with embedded artwork in each track. These particular albums display the expected artwork (at both album and track level) in the Control Point (more than one used) but don't display artwork within the renderer (a Cyrus Lyric - which normally displays art at track level).

Retaining the "folder.jpg" and removing all the embedded artwork (every track), however, fixes the issue. (and in fact due to circumstances, one of the albums only had embedded artwork in one of the tracks, but with the same result).

I can't see anything out of the ordinary with the embedded art, (500x500 and 800x800 jpg), though maybe I should play a bit more with my own embedding.

Anyway, as I say, I'm happy with what I've got now, but confused as to the issue.

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The issue was consistent across my latest downloads. It was checked several times. Deleting embedded art immediately fixed in all cases.

So, I reinstated embedded art from a different source, at slightly lower resolution - it then worked OK. I then reinstated the original album art and resolution - worked OK??!

Patently, this is not something that can be diagnosed at distance, and it's working to my satisfaction now. Difficult to understand why, though. (Library has been rescanned at every change.