I finally have album art displaying on iTunes, my iPod, and the Touch using tinySB -- and using the same files on each device.
Here's how I did it: 1. Removed all embedded artwork from the mp3 and m4a Apple Lossless tracks using Tag&Rename (month long trial period shareware). 2. Used iTunes Artwork Converter ($15) to convert all artwork in iTunes into folder.jpg files in each album's folder. 3. Used iTSfv (freeware) to identify which tracks in iTunes had no folder.jpg associated with them. 4. Used Album Artwork Downloader (freeware) to search for high-quality images for those folders missing artwork. I saved the found artwork as Folder.jpg image for each folder. 5. I used Mp3Tag (freeware) to embed the folder.jpg art into each track. 6. I removed every track from my iTunes. Basically, I emptied iTunes of tracks. 7. I reimported all my tracks into iTunes. 8. I reformatted my USB HDD. 9. I copied all the files on to the HDD. 10. I connected the HDD to the Touch. 11. I Wiped the database from the Touch. 12. I let the Touch discover the "new" files. So no, the files show the correct artwork on the Touch using minysb, on iTunes desktop app, and on the iPod. My thoughts: I don't know exactly what fixed the problem. I have ensured that the embedded image in each track is exactly the same image as the Folder.jpg image within each folder. I use a mixture of mp3 and m4a tracks. None of the art was gotten from the itunes store. All was imported through the music files' embedded tags. I suspect that the iTunes downloading of artwork from the iTunes store (which is then stored in the iTunes database) may be partly the culprit. This all took about two days on-and-off to marshal my 7,000-track library. If I weren't so OCD about all this, I'd have just left it alone. All the music always played just fine, but the artwork drove me crazy. Along the way, I discovered some nifty programs: Mp3Tag, Tag&Rename, Itunes Artwork Converter, and iTSfv. I had hoped to move away from iTunes completely, but I really like using the Apple Lossless format, which seems to be the only lossless format available for the iPod. FLAC portable devices seem too expensive for something with an 80 GB storage capacity. My suggestion in the future: never use iTunes "download album artwork" again. Instead, using something like Album Art Downloader to find the right artwork for your size needs (500x500 seems good) and then save that file as folder.jpg in the appropriate folder for your album. Then use that file to specify the album art in iTunes, which will then embed it into the tracks. This way, the folder.jpg art is identical to the embedded art. Quite a chore, but it's all nicely lined up at the moment. Cheers, Richard -- trinkner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ trinkner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83845 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
