I believe that series are on TV, similar to Albums in Audio books.
To figure this issue with the album art out, I did the following:
1) Create a fixed playlist (Test - WI-FI - Fixed) and add one album of the type Audiobooks and one series of the type TV. Here is the information about these files in MMW:
2) Then I set up an AutoPlaylist (Test - WI-FI - Flex) that is based on the playlist I mentioned in step 1. The settings of this playlist are as follows:
3) Then, before I synced the information on this new playlist, I synced several times MMA on my Galaxy S10 with MMW until everything was synced.
4) In MMA I added the AutoPlaylist Test - WI-FI - Flex to the server content. Then I started syncing over Wi-Fi and waited until this was finished. There were no error messages. I did sync several times to make sure nothing new was left.
5) After syncing, I looked at the results of these new series and albums in MMA. Here is what it looks like in MMA:
Audiobook
TV Series
Conclusion Wi-Fi sync:
As you can see, the cover art of the audiobook is displayed correctly in MMA. The covert art of the TV series is not. I checked using X-plore and in both folders there is no file named albumart.jpg.
6) Next, I repeated the same steps for USB sync with a different TV series and Audiobook album. The playlist is Test - USB - Fixed and the AutoPlaylist based on this is Test - USB - Flex.
7) The settings in MMW regarding the USB sync are as follows:
8 ) Then I tried to sync, including the new AutoPlaylist Test - USB - Flex. I was very happy that it took me only one attempt to sync the files. However, I was surprised that the sync started with deleting about 590 files and then copied 660 files to the device. That is no problem for me, but it is confusing. My expectation was that it would copy over 48 files.
PS: I synced twice to make sure that nothing was left behind. The second time went quite fast (a few seconds).
PPS: I tried it 15 minutes later, and then I needed to wiggle, cancel, and do all kinds of stuff to get USB sync running again. Without changing any settings or playing videos, it deleted several files during the sync.
9) Then I waited until MMA had finished scanning files into the library. This took quite a while compared to previous times. Before the scanning, I noticed that all the album art was wrong. After almost everything was messed up in MMA.
For example, here you can see that the audio album 'Bach and the High Baroque' is present as a subfolder of Music/Audiobooks.
Here you can see that this album and all but one are deleted in MMA:
Another issue after USB sync: the course 'An Introduction to Number Theory' is not visible in MMA, although this should have been synced.
It had been synced to my device, as can be seen in X-plore:
Furthermore, all playlists have been deleted:
Conclusion USB sync:
On the positive side, it turns out that USB sync adds albumart.jpg to each folder.
On the negative side, it not only messes up album art in both audiobooks and videos but also hides audio and video files from MMA. I can't imagine that this is how it is supposed to work, so what did I do wrong?
Overall conclusion
1) In my situation, based on the above steps, Wi-Fi sync does not place albumart.jpg in each folder where the files are stored. However, USB sync does. Which I find very odd and unexpected. Shouldn’t it make no difference which method I use regarding what files are or are not synced?
2) Regardless of the file albumart.jpg being present, Wi-Fi sync results in album art being displayed correctly for audio books in MMA.
3) Regarding TV Series, the presence of albumart.jpg in a folder or tag does not guarantee that album art is displayed properly. It does for some series but dfor some it doesn’t. This is regardless of the method of syncing. It is possible to display albumart for a TV series, as can be seen in this screenshot. All six TV series have albumart.jpg in their folder and the correct albumart in their tag. But MMA shows the correct album art for only one TV Series.
USB sync messes up the files and functionality of MMA thoroughly. After describing these steps, I again did a Wi-Fi sync and now all video's and audiobooks are present in MMA. Although the video files show no album art although albumart.jpg is in the folder where these videos are stored.
I am willing to pay for MMA, so I can use Wi-Fi sync. It seems like a less troublesome approach. But it would be super nice if album art were played correctly.
I have tried to be thorough and describe all the steps. Sorry for the very lengthy post because of all the screenshots. But I hope this helps you to understand what I am doing wrong.
I believe that series are on TV, similar to Albums in Audio books.
To figure this issue with the album art out, I did the following:
1) Create a fixed playlist (Test - WI-FI - Fixed) and add one album of the type Audiobooks and one series of the type TV. Here is the information about these files in MMW:
[url=https://ibb.co/C91cL3d][img]https://i.ibb.co/4Smqkny/Snag-286c63.png[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/DQmbVKM][img]https://i.ibb.co/qphny1g/Snag-28781b.png[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/KGJkSzJ][img]https://i.ibb.co/g7xphFx/Snag-2952ac.png[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/sKwWxVx][img]https://i.ibb.co/N9jTDyD/Snag-2952db.png[/img][/url]
2) Then I set up an AutoPlaylist (Test - WI-FI - Flex) that is based on the playlist I mentioned in step 1. The settings of this playlist are as follows:
[url=https://ibb.co/myLmH2N][img]https://i.ibb.co/KsMY9fK/Snag-2a1020.png[/img][/url]
3) Then, before I synced the information on this new playlist, I synced several times MMA on my Galaxy S10 with MMW until everything was synced.
4) In MMA I added the AutoPlaylist Test - WI-FI - Flex to the server content. Then I started syncing over Wi-Fi and waited until this was finished. There were no error messages. I did sync several times to make sure nothing new was left.
5) After syncing, I looked at the results of these new series and albums in MMA. Here is what it looks like in MMA:
Audiobook
[url=https://ibb.co/6rQzXgH][img]https://i.ibb.co/rF9Yd4x/Snag-8a8bc6.png[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/mvHQWw0][img]https://i.ibb.co/DG732yY/Snag-8a8c62.png[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/x2GYbrV][img]https://i.ibb.co/Cwv6ySx/Snag-8ab71b.png[/img][/url]
TV Series
[url=https://ibb.co/8KXnjXP][img]https://i.ibb.co/p0n63n4/Snag-8c336b.png[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/0q8shb2][img]https://i.ibb.co/qBXJkQj/Snag-8c3cb2.png[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/fdKh4Tx][img]https://i.ibb.co/r2LC4Xw/Snag-8c47fc.png[/img][/url]
[b]Conclusion Wi-Fi sync:[/b]
As you can see, the cover art of the audiobook is displayed correctly in MMA. The covert art of the TV series is not. I checked using X-plore and in both folders there is no file named albumart.jpg.
6) Next, I repeated the same steps for USB sync with a different TV series and Audiobook album. The playlist is Test - USB - Fixed and the AutoPlaylist based on this is Test - USB - Flex.
7) The settings in MMW regarding the USB sync are as follows:
[url=https://ibb.co/YNy7x7s][img]https://i.ibb.co/Pr9ZdZH/Snag-8fe7b8.png[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/fNwCddB][img]https://i.ibb.co/ZgDhzzt/Snag-9001b9.png[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/z5PBz0Q][img]https://i.ibb.co/g7tfxBm/Snag-90231b.png[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/0C1M6ND][img]https://i.ibb.co/ByvZQDz/Snag-903ced.png[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/JmXLzB6][img]https://i.ibb.co/sbLSFmx/Snag-90c69f.png[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/NmV1yXH][img]https://i.ibb.co/s6m5VhM/Snag-90fb7a.png[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/D5H2zd9][img]https://i.ibb.co/XSrRjH7/Snag-911aca.png[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/QmVXF75][img]https://i.ibb.co/ysCVnm3/Snag-913fc6.png[/img][/url]
8 ) Then I tried to sync, including the new AutoPlaylist Test - USB - Flex. I was very happy that it took me only one attempt to sync the files. However, I was surprised that the sync started with deleting about 590 files and then copied 660 files to the device. That is no problem for me, but it is confusing. My expectation was that it would copy over 48 files.
[url=https://ibb.co/Cbxk0JY][img]https://i.ibb.co/pfCtXWM/Snag-94d5de.png[/img][/url]
PS: I synced twice to make sure that nothing was left behind. The second time went quite fast (a few seconds).
PPS: I tried it 15 minutes later, and then I needed to wiggle, cancel, and do all kinds of stuff to get USB sync running again. Without changing any settings or playing videos, it deleted several files during the sync.
9) Then I waited until MMA had finished scanning files into the library. This took quite a while compared to previous times. Before the scanning, I noticed that all the album art was wrong. After almost everything was messed up in MMA.
For example, here you can see that the audio album 'Bach and the High Baroque' is present as a subfolder of Music/Audiobooks.
[url=https://ibb.co/BqNrTBb][img]https://i.ibb.co/syH6sqn/Screenshot-20240217-152237-X-plore.jpg[/img][/url]
Here you can see that this album and all but one are deleted in MMA:
[url=https://ibb.co/RBHL9hG][img]https://i.ibb.co/txCy4Zw/Screenshot-20240217-152221-Media-Monkey.jpg[/img][/url]
Another issue after USB sync: the course 'An Introduction to Number Theory' is not visible in MMA, although this should have been synced.
[url=https://ibb.co/gRCQBzb][img]https://i.ibb.co/3CHVLB5/Screenshot-20240217-152102-Media-Monkey.jpg[/img][/url]
It had been synced to my device, as can be seen in X-plore:
[url=https://ibb.co/wrspnWY][img]https://i.ibb.co/Xk8FnsV/Screenshot-20240217-152317-X-plore.jpg[/img][/url]
Furthermore, all playlists have been deleted:
[url=https://ibb.co/zb5FqnF][img]https://i.ibb.co/1KnMFvM/Screenshot-20240217-152127-Media-Monkey.jpg[/img][/url]
[b]Conclusion USB sync:[/b]
On the positive side, it turns out that USB sync adds albumart.jpg to each folder.
On the negative side, it not only messes up album art in both audiobooks and videos but also hides audio and video files from MMA. I can't imagine that this is how it is supposed to work, so what did I do wrong?
[b]Overall conclusion[/b]
1) In my situation, based on the above steps, Wi-Fi sync does not place albumart.jpg in each folder where the files are stored. However, USB sync does. Which I find very odd and unexpected. Shouldn’t it make no difference which method I use regarding what files are or are not synced?
2) Regardless of the file albumart.jpg being present, Wi-Fi sync results in album art being displayed correctly for audio books in MMA.
3) Regarding TV Series, the presence of albumart.jpg in a folder or tag does not guarantee that album art is displayed properly. It does for some series but dfor some it doesn’t. This is regardless of the method of syncing. It is possible to display albumart for a TV series, as can be seen in this screenshot. All six TV series have albumart.jpg in their folder and the correct albumart in their tag. But MMA shows the correct album art for only one TV Series.
[url=https://ibb.co/bQQRHcp][img]https://i.ibb.co/S557QFq/Screenshot-20240217-152013-Media-Monkey.jpg[/img][/url]
USB sync messes up the files and functionality of MMA thoroughly. After describing these steps, I again did a Wi-Fi sync and now all video's and audiobooks are present in MMA. Although the video files show no album art although albumart.jpg is in the folder where these videos are stored.
I am willing to pay for MMA, so I can use Wi-Fi sync. It seems like a less troublesome approach. But it would be super nice if album art were played correctly.
I have tried to be thorough and describe all the steps. Sorry for the very lengthy post because of all the screenshots. But I hope this helps you to understand what I am doing wrong.