Zen V Plus - Album

HeyI've already searched for posts with the same problem and read mostly all of them but unfortunately I couldnt find a resolutionSo I decided to open a new thread and hope to find some help here from you guys... So.. I got this creative zen v plus 4gb for some days now and my problem is that the album arts are just mixed up...Well, not clearly mixed up; if a track has got an album art, it works properly, but a lot of them ones without just show up with an (!) album art from another artist...and there really is no smilarity to the song/album names or stuff...and I also didn't put everything in one folder, i got like 5-30 tracks in each folder and 90 % of the folders are organized by artist, in addition to that i actually wouldnt mind a song having got a wrong album art but at least from the same/right artist then... unfortunately that still is not the case...And when I check the ID3-Tags of those songs with wrong album arts, it doesn't show up any album art, so they are not included in the ID3-TagAll in all : Song without Album Art -> gets any album art when i listen to music in the Zen V Plus (-> But Album art is not to find the ID3-Tag)I hope you understood my problem properly I'd really appreciate your help...thank you! ByebyeMessage Edited by Tranquility on 2-22-200708:26 PM
Message Edited by Tranquility on 2-23-200702:33 PM

I had a similar problem once. Try searching for info on the "clean up" recovery mode.

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hokasch wrote:However, I have still not found a linux app that transfers album art. Does Banshee copy the album covers? Or does anyone know about another tool? I read amarok1 schould be capable of this, but I can not get it to recognize the zen.
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