Windows 10: How decipher Groove Music Artist name?

Groove Music has very limited and/or outdated photos of music artists. The folders containing these artist photos does not name them by artist name but rather by some code; e.g. 'Aye9wwbr5Umz8QwF0uAMIscdZtWUbNdJvkkwcYv9yv4' for Tony Bennett. If an artist photo actually exists, one could at least browse all the photos hundreds until the desired artist was found, and replace the stored photo, however, if an artist's photo does NOT exist, that is not an option. In that case, since the artist photo file names are gibberish, how does ne know how to add an artist photo, but name it correctly so Groove Music knows to find it?

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Groove Music - alphabetical sorting by artist

Each and every step was followed. Groove Music still shows that artist beginning with J under C. Other suggestions?

 

Show artists image in when browsing artists in Groove Music

My understanding is the images shown on the "Artist" page were downloaded BEFORE 2018.

The Groove Music app was designed to get artist images from Groove's online Image Service. As you know, artist images never look the same as album covers because they don't come from the audio file metadata.

Microsoft shut access to the image service on 31st Dec 2017. I suspect it was a side affect of shutting the Groove Music Pass streaming service. Access to their "API features" has been disabled, and that also included Artist Bio info (.the latest Groove
Music app update has even removed the "Artist Bio" feature).

The images used for the "Album" page come from the metadata embedded in your audio file and is unaffected by the shutdown of Groove online services / API. So albums show OK.

That's my interpretation. It would be nice for Microsoft to keep the image service for Groove Music apps even though Groove Music Pass has ended.

As evidence, I have a Lumia 1520 and noticed none of the new audio files I added to Groove Music app today received an Artist image (and I was online). Music added months ago retain artist images.

A network capture shows the Groove Music app is still communicating to musicimage.xboxlive.com when a new track is played. It seems to still attempt to fetch the image. There is some data exchanged but never any successful load of an artist image. I suspect
the online image service is rejecting the request and the Groove Music app is still coded to fetch. Again, I hope I am wrong and If it is meant to be still working and we can only hope Microsoft fixes it.

See Overview of the Groove Music API

*UPDATE* - Installed Groove Music on Android phone and 17 out of 24 artists received an artist image. On my W10 PC and Lumia devices I get zero artist images! All music from each device is sourced from OneDrive only.

• Success - Android. Groove Music v11.1121.1630 (2017).
• Fail - Lumia 930 with W10 Mobile with Groove Music on v10.18011.1341.0 (2017).

• Fail - Lumia 1520 with W10 Mobile with Groove Music on v10.17085.2231.0 (2017).

• Fail - Desktop PC W10 with Groove Music v10.18011.1271.0 (2018).
  

So the image fetching service is still working for Android but broken on Windows.

**UPDATE #2 3-Mar-18 **

Artist image fetching is working again on Groove Music for Windows 10 PC and the Lumia 1520. Still broke on the Lumia 930 which is running a newer version (latest) of Groove Music.

• Success - Android. Groove Music v11.1121.1630 (2017).
• Fail - Lumia 930 with W10 Mobile with Groove Music on v10.18011.1341.0 (2017).

• Success - Lumia 1520 with W10 Mobile with Groove Music on v10.17085.2231.0 (2017).

• Success - Desktop PC W10 with Groove Music v10.18011.1271.0 (2018).

 

Groove Music - Artist Name Change

This really wasn't helpful. Your link did not provide the desired information. It should be pretty simple. How can I edit the name, artist, etc. from within the Groove music application? This is necessary for songs that were not purchased through the
groove music application.

Thank you in advance for your help.