On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:34:10 +0200, Christophe Fergeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le lundi 28 mars 2005 � 09:26 -0600, Thomas Lunde a �crit : > > > all of the new portable audio players with screens (both > > the iPod and the WMA horde) recognize and will use embedded cover art. > > The iPod photo won't use cover art embedded in files, it uses a separate > thumbnail database containing the uncompressed and scaled covers. While > this database can be generated from the data embedded in files, it can > also be generated from any other image as long as the various database > files are properly filled.
(Huh? ...goes off and researches... *red face*) I apologize for providing bad information on the iPod photo. I personally only have an older model and have only interacted with the new ones in a store (while it was attached to a Mac.) Since iTunes stores its art in the ID3 tags and those do get sync'd to the iPod, I made a bad assumption. Christophe: do you know of any non-iTunes software that will generate the thumbnail database? Some googling only turned up statements that there isn't (yet) any such. It does appear that at least some portable music players _do_ pull the art right out of the ID3 tags if it is present. See, for example, the second comment in this thread: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/145659 (talking about the Archos AV400) thomas _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
