Windows 10: Every time I play a song on Grooves, the artist becomes my desktop background. How do I...

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Background artist in zune?

Hi, Ayu,



If you are wishing to display artist album art when songs are playing,



"For the songs and videos being played the background is an image associated with the artist meta information gathered from Zune. If the song or video doesn't have the correct meta information it won't display anything. Using the Zune desktop client
you can edit song tag information and if you update album information it should apply all the missing meta data for that song." ----Steven Hughes, MCC----



You might wish to perform the steps listed here

RedPill: Windows Phone: Zune Artist Background Image Issue [Solved]

 

Groove Music - Song by Artist does Not Show in List

Do you not understand what I asked?

"Song by artist does not show in list"

You have a song list, you go to an artist, you look for the song, its not in the list and yet it is on the phone.

Why do some not show?

Never had this problem with Windows Phone 7, 7.5, 8, 8.1. Only with Windows 10 and Groove music.

 

Groove won't display media info (album name, artist, song length)

Okay, so Windows Media Player (WMP) and Groove are both using the same library to gather their songs (does that automatically). WMP is able to gather the information such as album name, artist, genre, etc and display/organize accordingly for ALL songs. Groove
only does this for <10% of my songs. Groove therefore has thousands of songs listed as "Unknown artist/genre/album" and can't properly organize. Additionally, it lists the song length for all of these songs as 0:00, but they all play fine. For example:

2 different Ed Sheeran songs from album (+)

C:\...\Music\Ed Sheeran\+\The A Team.mp3

listed as all "Unknown's" in Groove except for song name

C:\...\Music\Ed Sheeran\+\Drunk.mp3

properly displays all metadata, organized appropriately

Screengrab: - all the songs listed as 0:00 play fine, and show some form of album artwork, usually incorrect because so many artists/albums mixed together



Another example (here you see album artwork-incorrect- in lower left, song is playing, correct length, proper path, etc):





What I have tried/verified so far:

Automatic media retrieval is on (and I have toggled it)

Individually adding artist's within music folder as their own libraries - does not work

Signing out and back in, restarting PC

Ran the app troubleshooter, no problems identified

Searched this forum for similar issues/solutions to no avail

I am running the most recent version of Win10, but have had this issue since the start. Would like to transition off of WMP, hence finally posting here. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!