Adding covers for local albums is messed up, HELP NEEDED

I know there are already threads about this but I couldn't find any reasonable fix in any of them. So I started adding my local albums today and I can't seem to add covers to most of them. I'm using mp3tag software to embed the covers into the mp3s and it works fine, Winamp shows them so there are embedded there. However, when I load the albums into Spotify the covers don't show for most of them. They either show the cover of last listened album or no cover at all. So far I managed to get only cover working for Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra. I'm using JPG files and I tried various sizes, various folder names, I tried restarting Spotify - I tried it all. No matter what I do I can't seem to get them to work. This is really annoying Spotify, how hard can it be to implement a feature in the software itself to add your own covers? With all the updates you do almost every week one would think you would actually start doing important updates like the one mentioned above instead of just re-arranging design and changing colours. I don't even believe you will fix this so I'm going to ask members around here - do you know any working way of doing this? Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Anything? I'm seriously considering moving to this new Apple Service at this point. Spotify is getting more and more annoying by the minute. BTW: I'm a paying customer, I've been buying premium for almost two years now so I do support you. But when something's messed up then it's messed up and it should be fixed.

Hello:
If you are using one of the newer 1.0.xx.xxx Spotify desktop apps there is a major right click context menu feature missing which would help many users out enormously here. The right click context menu option was called the Unlink Track option for local files linking up with the Spotify content and messing up user intended cover art on local music files added into the Spotify desktop app. Sadly most of the local file support has not be added back into the 1.0.xx.xxx app version, and there are missing key features such as the Unlink Track option in the right click context menu, as well as the music file Edit Info... feature in the right click context menu that used to be there. That was the sad news I am afraid.
The Great news all these features are available in the 0.9.15.27 app version, if you still want these features you will have to roll your Spotify desktop app back to a 0.9.15.xxx version and you will also need to use a workaround to prevent the auto update feature, or the app will auto update on you and you will be back to a 1.0 app version again. This is all I can suggest until all the features finally get into the new 1.0 app version, and it might take some time to get there. With some key features missing with local music file support, there just is no way to get the newer apps to behave how you wish the app to behave.
I think I waited a good year before the 0.9 app versions got to a point that I could use the app and be satisfied with the results and the function of the app. I slogged along with an 0.8 app version for a long while until a good chunk of the bugs where gone in the 0.9 app version, and there are still a few lingering bugs around with this app version 0.9.15.27 but I can live with them. If you are an ad free user this app won't play the last track on an album and/or playlist if an ad comes on and it is the last track to be played, the user has to manually play it. This app also has a slight bug about keeping login user name info for some reason, and sometimes the drag and drop of tracks or albums into playlists hangs up and becomes unresponsive and a log out log back in is required to clear it up.
Now there is a trick and a workaround to get the newer apps to display local music files correctly with the correct cover art and all when the local music files play, and also so all local music files are not linked with Spotify catalogue content. The whole thing involves using an older app with the local file support still intact, making sure all Local Music files are fully unlinked from the Spotify content catalogue, and also making sure all cover art is displaying right when played, and all track information is set and correct before saving and backing up the local-files.bnk file. Which can be found under this file location C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Spotify\Users\SpotifyAccountUserNameorID#-user. And then one has to actually reinstall a new app, unselect all music sources from in Preferences and then log out of the app, and add back in the back up local-files.bnk into the file location again under C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Spotify\Users\SpotifyAccountUserNameorID#-user and replace or copy over the one already there with your back up file. But just using an older app, and rolling back would probable be best in the end anyway. This is a really just a dirty work around to get things to work right with regards to local music files that is.

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*Tried that, there are STILL too many covers!*
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