Cover Art for Compilations

[aida]

Hi I came across a problem, with album art at the compilation album from various artist. I tagged the album with same album artist (so it is under one artist in zune collection) but every song have it's own album art embedded because they are from various other albums.

Is there the way how to make my zune to show album art for each song and not image from a first file for whole album?

[Jason Dunn]

Well, your metadata is definitely mucked up. Unfortunately the Zune has very rudimentary tools for working with metadata. Here's what I suggest: download and install MediaMonkey (http://www.mediamonkey.com) (it's free) and use it to fix your metadata. It can do all sorts of neat things like delete embedded album art and re-embed new art.

[aida]

Hi, thanks for your replay. Metadata of those files are fine (at least I think) you can look at those pictures. Most of them have cover art from the original CD or LP.

Every file have it's own metadata what is only same for the whole album is "album artist" and "genre".

However if I add this album to my Zune collection it only show the cover art of the first song in album and zune itself also only show the first song image whatever song from the album I'm playing.

Without using meta tag "album artist" I'm able to see every image but in collection is many artists with only one song from same album, than is difficult to be oriented in the collection.

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Thanks again for you replay and help and sorry for my English :-)

[Jason Dunn]

I can only repeat my suggestion: use MediaMonkey. The one and only reason you're having metadata problems is because there's something wrong with your metadata. Use MediaMonkey to:

1) Remove all embedded album art
2) Delete all album art in the folder where you're album is
3) Re-do the metadata to set album artist as the same (I usually use Various Artists)