Zen MX Album Art

Hi
My wife has just bought a 6Gb Zen MX, I've had a standard 8Gb Zen for over a year and haven't had any problems. To put some music on the MX we copied my music library onto her pc, got Windows Media Player to recognise the directories and then synched with the MX.
The music has loaded fine, but virtually all of the albums are missing the album art. The only ones that have album art are those that I've manually updated in media player because the image that it found automatically was wrong.
I've upgraded the MX to the latest firmware and re-synched - no difference.
It's also refusing to synch the playlists from WMP, it says that they've synched but there're not visible on the MX.
Any ideas?
Ian
Edited for spelling - 4:45
Message Edited by LankyIanB on 07-6-2009 02:45 [email protected]

? An update on the album art....
There are definitely some differences between the Zen and the Zen MX....
Windows media player as standard stores the album art on the folder (directory) that contains the album tracks. The old Zen was quite happy with this arrangement.
If in media player, you update the album art by copying and pasting an image (say from a well known on-line retailer of music etc) it not only updates the image on the folder but it also adds the image to each track within the folder as MP3 tag info. The Zen MX needs this to display album art.
I spent a fun evening deleting all the albums from the Zen MX (can't find a way to get it to format). Updating every album in the music library with new album art and then re-synching. I think there are 4 albums out of about 50 that it's not displaying album art for which is close enough for me....
Playlists next - might just give up and do them manually on the [email protected]

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