Recoveryone wrote: > First off when you rip a disk the album art is attach to the folder that > the files was created, not each track. From time to time you will find > that the rip did not combine the track titles with the album art and you > would get no album cover or get the same track name for each track. Now > if you D/L music from Amazon or some other 3rd party they do attach the > album cover to each track, for the reason many only D/L singles and not > whole albums. So don't cause yourself more work then needed, if you are > using a Touch you would be able to see if the album art is working > correctly. > > Also get Mp3tag (free d/L ) widely used by many to help catalog your > collection and find album art.
Ripping with dBpoweramp results in album art being embedded in each track file, as well as creation of the file folder.jpg in the album's folder. Some applications make use of only one or the other; it's best to have both. On very rare occasions, dBp doesn't find artwork and you may have to do a further search. On occasion LMS does not pick up changed art through a simple rescan for changed items. Do a complete rescan and this generally fixes the problem. When I acquire music other than through ripping a physical CD, I always use MP3tag to check how the artwork is handled. If necessary, I will extract the artwork from a file and add it as folder.jpg to the folder. Sometimes it works the other way -- there is a folder.jpg (sometimes called cover.jpg) but the image is not in the individual track files, so I add it to each one (as a single batch operation, again using MP3tag). If there is no artwork at all, as sometimes happens, I usually find it manually (do a Google image search on the album name). I prefer to control the size of the artwork, with my target being between 500 and 750 pixels on a side. I don't need higher resolution. If all I can find is a giant image I'll resize. I know there are automated methods, but as I'm only adding music to an already fully populated (with artwork) collection, I find this most efficient. I do find that some downloaded albums (e.g. from eMusic) come with both embedded art and a folder.jpg file, but the artwork dimensions are inadequate, e.g. 200 pixels on a side. If it's something I care about, I'll find a bigger image and replace in both the individual music files as well as the folder.jpg. R. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RonM's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17029 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100906 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
