MP3tag question?

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I understood (thought :smirking_face:) I could use mp3tag to edit album cover art which does not appear on my Uniti Core.

Having opened the album in the core’s downloads folder, the only sensible option appeared to be to reduce the size of the cover art which mp3tag appeared to do, but then the save option failed stating ‘cannot write…..’ to the first album track and offering cancel, skip or quit.

Any mp3tag users had anything similar?

Thanks and,

ATB, J

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Have you tried moving the album to your computer hard drive, editing it there, then moving it back?

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Hi ChrisSU,

Good catch, copying the file back to my Mac allows me to save mp3tag changes.

However, after copying the files back to the downloads folder, despite reducing the cover art size to a mere 19kb, the cover art still refuses to display on the Core, and of course subsequently on the streamer display…….

Any thoughts welcome.

Thanks and

ATB, J

Obviously deleted the original offending files from the Downloads folder before any of the above.

Edit #1: I am an IDIOT ! After a few minutes, probably after an auto rescan on the Core, the cover art miraculously reappeared.

Thanks ChrisSU

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A Core automatically picks up changes to the downloads folder in anything from immediately to about 5 minutes. It’s massive improvement on the UnitiServe which used to take weeks sometimes!

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A productive afternoon spent using mp3tag to fix missing artwork and clean up some multi disc albums on the Core.

To be fair, the Core was initially populated by importing an Innuos backup set from my Synology NAS, some of the content of which dated back to iTunes days :scream:. All in all I was pleasantly surprised at how few ‘fixes’ were actually required.

Key lesson learnt was to have the patience to allow the Core to rescan the library to reflect the changes, as ChrisSU said doesn’t take more than 5 minutes or so. I really can’t see why some folk have such a downer on the Core, if of course they actually own one. Seems to deliver exactly what it says on the tin with very little fuss. Maybe I don’t have any of the material which causes them so much apparent trouble……:person_shrugging:.

ATB, J