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    Willie_HK replied on July 23, 2009 06:16 to the question "How to fetch and display directly from folder.jpg (NOT writing into metadata)" in Songbird:

    Willie_HK
    Thanks man, it worked after restarting it twice. That saves some 100gb LAN traffic between my deskie n raid1 file server

    Everything is fine now except that it trims the date property in Meta (currently amazon.co.jp format yyyy/mm/dd, Songbird trims and retrieves year only.) and apparently does not parse the native album artist property correctly making Mediaflow splits the albums, I tried to manually update it in SB, it added a commentary value <albumartist>
    </albumartist>
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    Willie_HK asked a question in Songbird on July 22, 2009 19:11:

    Willie_HK
    How to fetch and display directly from folder.jpg (NOT writing into metadata)
    I dun want Songbird to write album art files into metadata, I hate to say it but it's a stupid idea as it would recreate all the files, especially worse for people who use lossless storage formats, do mirroring and sync across computers. IT IS JUST UNNECESSARY HARD DRIVE WEAR AND TEAR. Please, if It's Not Broken, Don't Fix It!

    Version: Songbird 1.2.0, Build 1146 (20090616030043)
    Windows Vista Home Premium x64
    Album Art: Folder.jpg in each of the albums under respective artist folders

    Things I've tried:
    Ran a NT batch to standardize the attributes of all album arts.
    Ensured archive structure settings are correct in Songbird.
    Activated the fetch local file policies in about:config.
    Created a test copy of album, it does not fetch from folder.jpg still.
    Right click get album art, the file is retouched. (I dun want this)

    @developers: Dun mean to be rude but I have to stress this:
    IT IS JUST UNNECESSARY HARD DRIVE WEAR AND TEAR. Please, if It's Not Broken, Don't Fix It! (I remember the album art fetching worked fine in the initial release.)