My understanding is that there are three ways to use albumart:

1. Just put, eg cover.jpg in the folder for each album. SC will pick up
the cover from a file there. Not compatible with other apps.

2. Embed the image within the file itself as a tag - each file is
slightly bigger as a result.

3. Tag each music file with a link pointing to the cover.jpg in the
same folder. To me, this option is the most preferable as it would be
more efficient than placing the image in every audio file, and is also
compatible with non SC apps (eg mediamonkey itself, for which option 1
would not work).

I'm using flac files, and tried using Mediamonkey with the batch art
finder script to automate the download of albumart images. But it seems
that the script specifically disables the third option above for flac
files (and ogg).

Is there some fundamental reason for that? 

Mediamonkey itself seems to support both the tag and link method, and
tagged files so created seem to be compatible with SC.

It looks like the batch art finder script can be easily modified to
acheive option 3 above (ie links), but is there some reason why that
approach should not be followed for flac files? My concen here is that
I will corrupt my entire flac library in some way.


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