paulster;622715 Wrote: > The answer is there is no answer! > > When the metadata is written to a FLAC file it can be truncated right > at the end of the metadata itself, or it can be written with some > buffer space to allow for updates. > > Depending on how a FLAC file was created and what last edited it, I've > had adding a single character to a track title cause a complete file > re-write whereas on other occasions adding a larger image was just able > to use the buffer space available. > > Essentially, you can trim your FLAC files down to be just the metadata, > no spare room and then the music, so if you do that then of course > having the image embedded is going to increase the size of the files. > > I don't worry about it though, even though I use high-quality artwork > in my files. It's only a bit of an issue in my shadow MP3 library when > I want to copy some stuff onto an iPod Nano (and quite why we have one > of those is beyond me anyway) when the size of the albums limits how > many you can fit on. > > The disadvantage of filesize was completely outweighed by the fact that > SBS works perfectly with artwork in this setup, and also that my shadow > MP3 library (maintained by flac2mp3) would also transfer over all the > images seamlessly, which further means that iTunes automatically > updates the images. And I never have to do a full clear and rescan. I > couldn't have done all this with cover.jpg.
Thank you Paul for very thorough answer. Since I have just under 15K of albums in my music library I'm not about to re-edit all the file tags to include embedded cover art so I'll just have to hope that some future version of SBS includes improved handling of cover art. I can also hope to win the lottery since there's a much better chance of that happening than SBS finally getting improved handling of cover art :) -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 (oops) -> Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86747 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
