Vista - WMP 11 Vista album art problems

Hope this is the right discussion group... I was asked to pick from an
unsorted list of over 1500 groups! Anyway...
I had a problem ages ago with WMP11 when I upgraded from v10 under XP (and
subsequently rolled back to v10). I now have a new machine with Vista, and
the same problem has arisen.
I have a combination of downloaded music (Napster, Virgin Media etc) and CD
rips. Some - most - album art is OK, but some really weird stuff happens too.
For example I just downloaded (via the 'Find album info' option) an album's
details, but had to edit them as my exact album release wasn't listed.
Suddenly, a load of other albums, nothing to do with the edited one, are
displaying the new album art. Mahler symphonies with a pic of a leaping Jamie
Cullum - it's just not right!
This is typical of the strange goings-on. It looks to me as though WMP11 is
just extremely flaky in some areas, but maybe it's me. Whatever... any ideas
would be very, very appreciated.

That sounds like all those tracks were ripped from the same physical mix CD.
All tracks ripped from each CD have a basic identification with each other.
This comes in handy when you fix the metadata for track one - the rest of
the album then fixes itself up.

If you Edit the final results in Find Album Info now, you can select "This
is a custom mix CD" to avoid that happening, if I recall correctly.

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"Jobsworth" <Jobsworth@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the reply, but I think the problem lies elsewhere. Affected items
are not just tracks, but whole albums, and were ripped from original
commercial CDs, digitised off cassette tapes, and downloaded from sites such
as Napster.

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:

As far as I'm aware, the Find Album Info and other metadata paths don't like
to touch bought tracks such as from Napster, under the belief that they
should be correct when you bought them. You might be able to use the
Advanced Tag Editor there, but the more automated processes such as Find
Album Info I would expect to not want to write to those tracks.

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"Jobsworth" <Jobsworth@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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OK, zachd, thanks anyway. Think the answer must lie elsewhere, so I'll just
keep persevering - or maybe chuck out WMP 11 and just use the software that
came with my MP3 player!

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote: