I had concerns about this, initially, too, and I actually started with the "add the cover.jpg file into each album directory" approach, but ended greatly preferring the embedded-file approach I realized three things: 1) The added 30-80 KB for a moderately sized cover art file is maybe 1-2% (if that) of the total file size of the MP3; even less if you have high-quality bitrates on your tracks. 2) The cost of storage (per MB) is declining (dramatically) all the time. 3) The presence of a .jpg in a directory of MP3 files confuses some apps and/or frustrates my efforts some of the time*
Given those, the "cost" of an embedded file is greatly outweighed (to me) by the convenience. * For example, I was attempting to make a quick-and-dirty collection of songs by just dragging folder contents into a single directory on a PMP and ended up having to either manually select only the songs or click "no" to the "Do you want to replace cover.jpg" dialog each time. Lots of those little annoyances finally made me reconsider my initial approach and I've been very happy with the result. On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Sam Kamens <[email protected]> wrote: > Doesn't that crank up the size of each of the MP3's, though? Keeping > just one copy of each jpg is more appealing to me... >
