Have I lost all my album art?

[Lyndon]

I am really depressed right now.
All my effort to get the album covers.
I was trying to make room on my hard drives and cleaning up.
So I went into my recycle bin, and there was listed a ton of my music. I thought this was just the original files from when I ripped the cd's to flac, and deleted all of them.
But now, when I go to MM, all my cover art is gone.
WTF?????????????????
I hope I am wrong, but I think I am really screwed.
Lyndon

[Lowlander]

Do the songs in your library still play. Do they show empty Album Art on the Album Art tab of the Track Properties?

[Lyndon]

Nothing plays
Now on my HD that I only keep the music, it says I still have them.
But does that mean I have the music or also the album cover art?
I also backed up the files on another hard drive, up to August, but what does this mean?
Was it storing that album cover art in my recycle bin???
Will I have to uninstall MM, and reinstall it to recognize those files in my hard drive? Worried about the doubling effect.

[Lowlander]

Then it would seem that you have removed your tracks from the PC and all is lost. I'd suggest you do a search in Windows Explorer for the file types you had music in (*.mp3 for mp3's) to verify the tracks are no longer on your PC.

[Lyndon]

Yes,
Have the music listed and playing, but now everything is doubled.
Lowlander, can you give me a link to a quick fix for this? I know it has been asked to death.

P.S. Thanks again for being such a good help on this forum. I certainly appreciate it.
Lyndon

[Lowlander]

You can remove the tracks from Library > Files to Edit > Dead Links in most cases and if that fails there should be a drive entry in the Library > Location node that doesn't have a drive letter that you can remove (if you're certain you want to remove all tracks from the drive from the Library).

[Lyndon]

Lowlander said:

You can remove the tracks from Library > Files to Edit > Dead Links in most cases and if that fails there should be a drive entry in the Library

Alright, I got that listed. Do I just Control A the whole lost listed and then remove?
There is no "right click" on the dead links.
That sure is a lot of dead link files.

It doesn't delete, just runs through the whole list. Must be a way to delete these dead links in one shot.

Think I got it. Just hope that when I hook up the Sqeezebox Touch, and new Pioneer A/V recevier, everything will play nice with each other.

[nohitter151]

Lowlander said:

You can remove the tracks from Library > Files to Edit > Dead Links in most cases and if that fails there should be a drive entry in the Library

Alright, I got that listed. Do I just Control A the whole lost listed and then remove?
There is no "right click" on the dead links.
That sure is a lot of dead link files.

It doesn't delete, just runs through the whole list. Must be a way to delete these dead links in one shot.

Think I got it. Just hope that when I hook up the Sqeezebox Touch, and new Pioneer A/V recevier, everything will play nice with each other.

select all, right click on one of the selected tracks, remove.

[Lyndon]

nohitter151 said:

select all, right click on one of the selected tracks, remove.

For some reason, that didn't work. It just cycled through the whole mess. Which I just closed down the program.
Then I did it as mentioned above. And that worked.

You and lowlander are the keeper of the flame.
I hope MM keeps you guys in mind when they release the MM Diamond Edition.
Lyndon

[Lowlander]

Ctrl+A and Delete should work. Tracks deleted from the Dead Links won't get delete from the PC (also because they don't exist) so you can do so worry free.