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Right, I've figured it out, and I'm gonna write it here to help those who wish to get to the bottom of this. As far as I can make out, you can't create "groups" on the "My Library" side of SS - you can only make Playlists or Albums - you can assign cover art to these Playlists and Albums, and provided you transfer them AS playlists or albums, (right-click, transfer to HiMD,) they will become "groups" (folders) on your MD (nowhere in any literature does it explain that this is what will happen!!) - only if you do it this way can you assign album art to groups - you cannot "create groups on the md" and then assign art later - neither can you assign art to individual tracks and then add them to newly created groups that you made on the MD - also, you need to be viewing the list of My Library or whatever search you're doing to find the thing you need as "Albums/Playlists" you HAVE to create Playlists or Albums on the LEFT and assign art to THAT before porting it over. Trust me, it does work, but only when you do it this way - this includes creating Albums out of bunches of mp3s on your hard drive - it may help (although it takes a while) to make sure the "album" field of each mp3 is the same as that of which cover art you wish to apply to it. Cover art does not need to be of any particular size as far as I can tell the software downgrades it and re-sizes it to what it needs. One last thing, if you have more than one copy of a certain mp3 or album in My Library, it may help if you delete the duplicates and just work on one batch. Is I-Tunes easier than this?! PS: As for my Douglas Adams compilation, you'll be pleased to know there turned out to be 42 tracks on it.

OK, I've deleted everything off the HiMD, and assigned each track album art and then re-encoded it and uploaded it to the HiMD again! But it doesn't work! It brings up a pic of a musical note, not the image I assigned, and when I try to add cover art (on the unit,) it says "NO GROUP" ? ? ?

OK Guys, thanks for your help - like I say, you've all been majorly enlightning so far anyway.. Keep up the good work!

Nope, it's only letting me see photos that have been taken with the unit, even though I've put the cover art pics in the same folder as the photos

Thanks - this only seems to let me choose from photos I've taken using the unit, not any "external" artwork..?

Yeah, I can do that with files on my hard drive, but I'm wanting to do exactly that, with the files I've already encoded and put on the HiMD

Hey there, firstly, thank God/Allah/Satan/Whoever you worship, that you guys are here on the net helping peeps out! I just got me a MZ-DH10P instead of getting one of the new Sony hard drive walkmans, or an IPod, as I've been a fan of MD since I had my MZ-1 before anyone else a million years ago (I actually had three, it got sent back that much it was so buggy, RIP bless etc) I'm no stranger to SonicStage as I also have an ATRAC3+ CD Walkman - which I have sussed out totally in the past and have had many hours of enjoyment from. Now I've got the SonicStage software from this site, as the CD that came with my machine installed but wouldn't run (summat to do with databases,) thanks to your tutorials and downloads I've got it working fine, and have made a few discs, but so far haven't figured out (it's not in the manual!) how to assign album art from Amazon (or whereever,) as the album art for particular "groups" - (this was momentarily confusing, as "group" to me is a bunch of people with instruments who play the songs, but in the world of MD, it appears to mean "folder,") So I've got ALL of Douglas Adams work (Hitch Hiker, Dirk Gently,) as various bitrated (vs audiobooks or not,) bitrates, and would LIKE to assign a pic of the CD covers as "Album Art" - and here's my question: How do I do it? I've not taken any photos on this disc, so a picture folder hasn't been created, it's my GUESS that I should take a photo, so it creates a pic folder, then delete the photo and add the album art to that folder?? *shrugs* Please help, I'm very much a "finish the job before moving on" kinda guy, and this is stopping me from removing this disc and ripping half of my 982364827469873781628354859954 CDs... Thanks in advance, KLx