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thanks for the heads up. There still seem to be some bugs:
some people don't wrap the songs inside the lyric tags. Therefore, what is being saved is as lyrics is:

Any luck on that lyric count not matching up bug we've discussed earlier?

Hi trw,

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I hope you get the idea from step-by-step how-to. Any doubt feel free to ask.

This also gave me the idea to have an option to
5.36.0.0 Remove low resolution artwork in Tracks

Cheers,
McoreD

Yeah I didn’t believe until it happened to me. I have been trying to grab the artwork for Radiohead’s latest album from iTunes but no matter how accurate the tags are, it will simply not download! Has anybody had luck with this?

i can't download artwork in high quality, all that i download is still 600x600, anyone can help me?

As usual, McoreD, your reply was comprehensive and very helpful. 

I installed 5.37beta and noticed that after running the validation process the reports I used to see automatically pop-up in IE no longer appear. (it listed missing art, low-res art, etc.) What happened to them?

I appreciate the feature where you add the Artist tag to the AlbumArtist tag, BUT, it overwrites AlbumArtist tags that were "Various Artists" (i.e., compilations).  What's your opinion about compilations? My impression is that programs like MediaMonkey use "Various Artist" AlbumArtist tags to limit showing a compilation album more than once when listing Albums, whereas if the AlbumArtist tag is the individual Artist, then the album will appear multiple times in the Album list.  How about adding logic to only replace the AlbumArtist tag with the Artist tag if AlbumArtist is empty?

Thank you! for adding the ability to see which album folders have no art. That is very useful. 

Lastly, I've decided to embed art after all. Besides allowing me to more fully use your program and its reporting capability, this eliminates the need to have a special art file for the Zune 2.  The fix for the black-box-in-place-of-album-art problem in MCE 2005 is to uninstall IE7, which I did, and now art shows fine at all times. Note that the black box appeared only when actually playing a tune; in all other listings and screens album art displayed fine.  What a silly bug for Msoft to allow to remain unfixed.

Thank you again for your excellent work!

  765     Private Sub sEditTrackAlbumArtist(ByVal track As iTunesLib.IITFileOrCDTrack)
  766 
  767         Dim countMissingAlbumArtist As Integer = 0
  768         Dim trackLoc As String = "dead track"
  769 
  770         ' can have The track is not modifiable. errors so need try/catch
  771         If track.Compilation = True Then
  772             ' dont need to overwrite all the time
  773             If track.AlbumArtist <> VARIOUS_ARTISTS Then
  774                 Try
  775                     track.AlbumArtist = VARIOUS_ARTISTS
  776                     trackLoc = track.Location
  777                 Catch ex As Exception
  778                     mWarnings.AppendLine(ex.Message & " while setting track as Compilation for " & trackLoc)
  779                     mWarnings.AppendLine(ex.StackTrace)
  780                 End Try
  781             End If
  782         Else
  783             If track.AlbumArtist = "" Then
  784                 Try
  785                     trackLoc = track.Location
  786                     If track.Compilation = True Then
  787                         track.AlbumArtist = VARIOUS_ARTISTS
  788                     Else
  789                         track.AlbumArtist = track.Artist
  790                     End If
  791                 Catch ex As Exception
  792                     mWarnings.AppendLine(ex.Message & " while filling AlbumArtist for " & trackLoc)
  793                     mWarnings.AppendLine(ex.StackTrace)
  794                 End Try
  795             End If
  796         End If
  797 
  798     End Sub

i can't download artwork in high quality, all that i download is still 600x600, anyone can help me?

Using iTunes, tracks have a tag called IsCompilation. The logic says, If track is compilation, and track's AlbumArtist tag is not "Various Artists" then force the AlbumArtist to be "Various Artists". Otherwise, like you said, if the track's AlbumArtist tag is empty then, if the track is marked as a Compilation then use "Various Artist" or guess the AlbumArtist from Artist tag. So AlbumArtist is retrieved from Artist tag *only* if AlbumArtist tag is empty. So if you have albums with different artists, I suggest you to check the Compilation tag in iTunes. That is the suggested usage in iTunes.

By the way, I just thought of a way to improve copying Artist tag to AlbumArtist feature. This is the idea: when iTSfv scans an album, if the track.AlbumArtist tag is empty, if the tracks in the album have different artist tag, then instead of using track.Artist, use "Various Artists" tag. If all the tracks have the same Artist, then use track.Artist as the AlbumArtist. Current design does not check if the Album's track Artist differs from track to track.

McoreD, the IsCompilation tag sounds like it's unique to iTunes, which implies to me that one's tracks would have to be tagged in iTunes. Not very attractive. Your new idea sounds more universally compatible.

I hope that clarfies any doubts?

... if you have a bunch of favourite songs below average track duration, their rating will not get scaled down, which can be a desirable result to you.

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Score with Duration Included    (duration)     vs. Score without Duration Included

101 for The White Stripes - Ball and Biscuit  (7:16)     vs. 99
095 for Boston - Carry On My Wayward Son  (5:21)     vs.  87
095 for Billy Joel - Piano Man  (5:36)     vs.  86
091 for The White Stripes - Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground  (3:04)       vs.  99
091 for Carbon Leaf - Let Your Troubles Roll By  (5:26)        vs.  84
090 for Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Bang  (3:09)     vs.  97
090 for The White Stripes - The Air Near My Fingers  (3:39)      vs.  92
090 for Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky  (4:02)     vs.  90
088 for Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion  (3:09)    vs. 94
088 for Remy Zero - Hollow  (6:20)       vs.  79
088 for Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man  (4:42)       vs.  85
087 for The Crystal Method - Bad Stone  (5:09)     vs.  80
086 for The White Stripes - Icky Thump  (4:18)     vs.  84
086 for The All American Rejects - It Ends Tonight  (4:05)       vs.  85
085 for Kid Rock - Only God Knows Why  (5:27)        vs.  79
085 for Billy Joel - Oh What a Night  (3:36)       vs.  87
084 for Styx - Come Sail Away  (6:04)      vs.  77
083 for Whitesnake - Here I Go Again  (4:37)    vs.  80
083 for Under The Influence Of Giants - Mama's Room  (3:47)      vs.  84
082 for Van Halen - Panama  (3:32)     vs.  84
082 for Tom Petty - You Don't Know How It Feels  (4:50)       vs.  79
082 for The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along the Watchtower  (4:01)     vs.  82
081 for Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun  (5:17)     vs.  77
081 for Outkast - B.O.B.  (5:04)     vs.  77
081 for Four Tet - My Angel Rocks Back and Forth  (5:07)       vs.  77
080 for Ulrich Schnauss - Knuddelmaus  (7:01)     vs.  68
080 for The Killers - All These Things That I've Done  (5:02)        vs.  77
080 for Carbon Leaf - Life Less Ordinary  (3:34)     vs.  82
079 for Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cold Light  (2:16)     vs.  89

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PlayedCount: 35%, SkippedCount: 0%, LastPlayed: 0%, DateAdded: 65%
Maximum Played Count: 14, Maximum Track Duration: 1196, Average Track Duration: 236.466846569005