disappearing artwork

[CatsTide]

Several of my albums,shows and movies have lost their artwork. I have searched the forum and found several posts about this but no solutions. What causes this and how can I fix it? I have literally hundreds missing. Any ideas?

[CatsTide]

Also...When I click info and check the artwork it's still there. When I close the info the artwork comes back. Is there a way to just rescan your folder or something like that? If it matters,my library is on a separate HD and it is disconnected from time to time.

[Omne666]

Actually, something like 30% of my movies all of a sudden stopped showing their artwork, unless I brought up the info menu, then it would suddenly be there. Then when it was off screen as I scrolled away and came back, it was gone again.
This was something in excess of 300 movies. Also on the appletv nothing would show for the artwork.

Can't say I've looked in my music library so will have to check.

For the movies, I use iFlicks for the meta data tagging, and so selected all the movies that showed the issue and ran iFlicks through the services menu of iTunes redoing the metadata. Worked a treat and all the items are holding now.

Best I can offer.

[mic j]

Originally Posted by Omne666

Actually, something like 30% of my movies all of a sudden stopped showing their artwork, unless I brought up the info menu, then it would suddenly be there. Then when it was off screen as I scrolled away and came back, it was gone again.
This was something in excess of 300 movies. Also on the appletv nothing would show for the artwork.

Can't say I've looked in my music library so will have to check.

For the movies, I use iFlicks for the meta data tagging, and so selected all the movies that showed the issue and ran iFlicks through the services menu of iTunes redoing the metadata. Worked a treat and all the items are holding now.

Best I can offer.

Probably database corruption. Delete and add back your media and it should be ok.

[CatsTide]

Originally Posted by mic j

Probably database corruption. Delete and add back your media and it should be ok.

How do you do this mic?

[Omne666]

Originally Posted by mic j

Probably database corruption. Delete and add back your media and it should be ok.

Fixed my movies, but you say database corruption....isn't the artwork embedded in the movie file?

Also..deleting and re adding the media isn't a great thing to do as is screws up the play counts, dates, history that gets built up over time. This stuff is priceless when building up your library. Smart play lists etc can use so much of this that's lost when you do it.

[mic j]

Originally Posted by CatsTide

How do you do this mic?

Select and delete everything in the library. Then go to File>Add to library. Navigate to the folder you have your media stored in and select it.

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Originally Posted by Omne666

Fixed my movies, but you say database corruption....isn't the artwork embedded in the movie file?

Also..deleting and re adding the media isn't a great thing to do as is screws up the play counts, dates, history that gets built up over time. This stuff is priceless when building up your library. Smart play lists etc can use so much of this that's lost when you do it.

Yeah, I know it is not the ideal fix, but it is the only thing I have found to work. I don't use any of the data iTunes collects for anything, so that did not have an impact on me. I might add, that I tried fixing individually but next time I would use iTunes, others or some of the same would be missing again. This was the only way I know of to fix everything all at once and for good (knock on wood). Once fixed it has not reoccurred in over a year.

As for the metadata location, yes it is tagged on to the file but I have to figure it's how the database accesses the metadata and displays it that gets corrupted. Wish I could be more "technical" but that's about as much as I know. If you find a better fix, please post it so we can have a better method.

[Omne666]

Must admit I did a partial rebuild recently when a Drobo misbehaved on me, and all my movies disappeared.

I had a 70% backup on site at the time, so, as I have iTunes organize and manage the library, I double clicked on a missing item, it brought up the cant locate menu, and I pointed it to the file where it now was, it located all the other missing ones there also, preserving a lot of the this data I like. I had to bite the bullet on the last 30%.