What Size Should Album Art Be for Mp3 Embred Written By Trost Musly1974 Thursday, 28 April 2022 Add Comment Edit 0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. Embed encompass fine art vs. putting it in folder 2009-03-24 23:39:31 So, recently I've discovered MusicBrainz Picard and decided to reorganize my music collection (all in .mp3).At present, I want to add cover art wherever is possible.My dilemma is: embed cover fine art with mp3, or make a folder.jpg in album directory, or mayhap fifty-fifty both?What are pros and cons of each approach? Does any of software have problems with 1st or 2nd approach?I'm using Winamp (maybe I'll switch to foobar) and take Ipod Nano.I'm also considering on building HTPC so how does Windows display folder images (can it read from folder.jpg moving-picture show, or even from cover art embedded in mp3)? Embed cover art vs. putting information technology in folder Reply #1 – 2009-03-25 03:51:33 Usually when cover art is embedded, each mp3 track on the album gets the cover art embedded in information technology. Each mp3 file has the same exact duplicate of the prototype, which is a lilliputian redundant. If you lot have a 12 track album with a 1mb album cover, you will be wasting about 11mb of space for each album. If you put ane encompass art picture in the album's folder, then y'all don't take to waste space. Also, if you ever need to update the album fine art, yous only have to update one file instead of every mp3.I know foobar supports getting the album fine art from a file in the album folder. Embed embrace art vs. putting it in folder Respond #two – 2009-03-25 04:04:57 Yes and if each album cover is 100mb--whoa---what a problem!I think it is a petty disingenuous to suggest that this need exist standard usage. Although you may very well apply such album art...when op is asking virtually album art and portable media players in the same sentence I do not think maximum quality of art is a business organisation. OP, y'all demand to research the devices you are going to utilise. What exercise they support? That is, in my stance, the chief event. Many observe fine art- embedded or non - sized as minor as 50kb to work out just fine in bodily exercise. terry Embed cover art vs. putting it in folder Answer #iii – 2009-03-25 04:16:17 different programs use dissimilar display methods.foobar2000 volition display paradigm files in the folder (usually named folder.jpg or encompass.jpg) just will too display an prototype embedded in the file. if both, the image embedded in the file overrides and gets displayed.Windows Media Player behaves similarly.I don't know near Winamp at this bespeak.I think that iTunes either embeds artwork or saves it in one of its large database files (because after all, you wouldn't need it elsewhere, because you lot'd never, e'er, possibly want to switch abroad from iTunes, correct?)But if you reinstall iTunes information technology can convert existing album art in the folder.jpg format. Not sure nigh how to get about information technology otherwise, only I'm no iTunes expert. Embed cover art vs. putting it in folder Reply #4 – 2009-03-25 05:02:45 I employ both embedded and folder anthology fine art.What:500×500 px relatively low-quality JPEG images of just the front cover. Why:I employ foobar2000 to listen to music on my PC and an iPod to listen to it on-the-go.foobar2000 works very nicely with the Anthology Art Console plugin (foo_uie_albumart) to show folder anthology art, but it doesn't back up embedded album art.iTunes/iPod work very nicely with embedded album art but don't support folder album art. With the size of my collection, the embedded album fine art does end up taking a not-insignificant chunk of storage space (~30kB/file), simply the folder album art, being typically merely ~30kB / x-xx files is non quite as bad so it's really a no-brainer. If you're going to use embedded album art you might as well employ both. Embed embrace art vs. putting it in binder Reply #v – 2009-03-25 05:25:55 foobar2000 works very nicely with the Album Art Panel plugin (foo_uie_albumart) to show folder anthology art, but it doesn't support embedded album art. foobar2000 will indeed brandish embedded anthology art. it doesn't edit embedded jpg files (I use mp3tag to exercise this) but it displays embedded album art simply fine, and if there'southward a file that has embedded art that's in a folder with its own folder.jpg, the embedded art will override the folder.jpg in foobar2000'southward brandish.This is true at to the lowest degree back to 0.nine.5.5, peradventure earlier. Embed cover art vs. putting it in folder Reply #6 – 2009-03-25 08:34:10 I am not very sure of this, but I don't think an iPod volition display album art unless it is embedded in the music file itself. I don't know if iTunes recognizes separate 'folder.jpg' files and somehow magically makes them announced in the iPod. What I do know is that it cannot procedure 'cover.jpg' files, whereas Foobar2000 does that. Embed comprehend art vs. putting it in folder Answer #vii – 2009-03-25 xi:36:33 If you have a 12 track album with a 1mb album embrace, you will be wasting well-nigh 11mb of infinite for each album. Aye, and let'southward say that someone chooses fairly high quality 500x500 JPGs as album fine art of 50KB each. Let's say the average album has 15 tracks. That is a whopping 750KB added to a 60MB+ album! Embed cover art vs. putting it in binder Reply #viii – 2009-03-25 12:05:18 I am not very sure of this, simply I don't think an iPod will display album art unless it is embedded in the music file itself. I don't know if iTunes recognizes separate 'folder.jpg' files and somehow magically makes them appear in the iPod. What I do know is that information technology cannot process 'cover.jpg' files, whereas Foobar2000 does that. Will information technology automatically embed these when you add together a directory to iTunes with a folder.jpg image in information technology? Been wondering this for a while as I've finally started trying to sort out my anthology art! Cheers Paul. Embed cover art vs. putting it in folder Respond #9 – 2009-03-25 12:39:46 Will it automatically embed these when you add a directory to iTunes with a folder.jpg epitome in information technology?Been wondering this for a while as I've finally started trying to sort out my anthology art! Cheers Paul. No, Itunes will not do this. Itunes will see embedded art or it uses its ain split database/file organisation for the album art. But information technology does not encounter the folder.jpg in a directory. This is one reason why I simply embed all my album fine art in each file. foobar and itunes both see it, nearly (all?) other players see information technology, etc. And the argument that information technology wastes space doesn't move me, equally the incremental space is piddling compared to the storage required for the files themselves. Embed cover art vs. putting it in folder Answer #ten – 2009-03-25 12:49:39 Disk space is really not my problem. Let me rephrase myself.I think embedding encompass art is better (some think information technology'south redundant, but I'thousand not worrying about little space overhead) because if you move simply selected songs from anthology, iPod would display them correctly.I'm just worrying, would some players accept trouble if in music folder exists non-music information, like binder.jpg.It's non problem to me to do both, embed and put binder.jpg.Only I need to decide before reorganizing my music collection, cause it will save me a lot of time if I practice it a proper way (and later not saying to myself:"Stupid,stupid,stupid me )" Embed cover art vs. putting it in binder Reply #11 – 2009-03-25 xiii:eighteen:12 Personally, I keep large 600x600 art in the album binder and embed smaller cover fine art in mp3s. I too keep boosted fine art in the binder as I as well similar seeing the insides and behind of a song's CD. Last Edit: 2009-03-25 xiii:twenty:08 by 2tec Embed encompass art vs. putting it in folder Answer #12 – 2009-03-25 xv:17:29 Winamp will display album art stored as folder.jpg, cover.jpg, %album%.jpg or embedded in the tag. If you utilise the "Become Anthology Art" feature, information technology stores it equally %album%.jpg. (also .jpeg, .png, .gif or .bmp) Embed cover art vs. putting it in folder Respond #thirteen – 2009-03-25 15:25:32 No, Itunes will not practise this. Itunes will see embedded art or it uses its ain separate database/file organization for the album art. Only it does not see the binder.jpg in a directory. This is one reason why I simply embed all my album art in each file. foobar and itunes both see it, about (all?) other players run into it, etc. And the argument that information technology wastes space doesn't motion me, every bit the incremental space is little compared to the storage required for the files themselves. Bugger. Stupid iTunes. I guess I'll accept to embed likewise. As you say I think the biggest files I have for album art are less than 50K so not a great add-on in terms of overall filesize. Embed cover fine art vs. putting it in folder Respond #14 – 2009-03-25 16:11:34 I always embed my album art simply considering that is the only way for it to prove upward on all my devices. I have an iPod, AppleTV, car CD deck, PS3, and a few other devices that support album art with my files but only if it is embedded. I employ 500X500 jpeg images which increase my file sizes (sometimes) by less than 75k. A pocket-size cost to play to take album art displayed on all of my devices. I could run into how the folder.jpeg method would come up in handy as you could accept higher resolution (or less compressed) album fine art in a single file and only associate all the mp3s (or whatsoever) with it. I would use that method if iTunes and everything else I had supported it. Embed cover fine art vs. putting it in folder Answer #xv – 2009-03-25 eighteen:48:48 In my opinion it's incorrect to embed album fine art. From a data structure view an anthology art is not a belongings of a rail only a holding of an entire album.Not a rail has got a CD cover but an unabridged anthology does. Embed information technology to tracks is redundancy.If I would shop my albums equally single ape/flac... files + cue it is correct to embed an anthology art.Only I store my CDs every bit individual files in folders and and so I only employ the folder.jpg every bit anthology art.I use Mediaportal http://www.team-mediaportal.com/ to listen to my albums on my HTPC and it handles folder.jpg only fine. I actually do desire album art there, considering it gets displayed on a large LCD TV.On my other devices (motorcar radio, mobile devices...) I do not need it an thus do not care about information technology. Embed embrace fine art vs. putting it in folder Reply #16 – 2009-03-25 18:56:40 ^^ aforementioned hereAlso if you lot use the foobar ipod plugin information technology automatically transfers the folder.jpg to your ipod. Information technology works and I don't believe it embeds the art to the mp3s. I gauge it adds it to the ipod dbase. Embed cover fine art vs. putting it in folder Answer #17 – 2009-03-25 20:10:45 In my opinion it's incorrect to embed album art. From a data structure view an album art is not a property of a runway simply a property of an unabridged album. Tell that to the hardware manufacturers who support but embedded album art. Although, I tin think of one album that has dissimilar covers on a per-runway basis. Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts I-Four was released (digitally past Trent) and each track had information technology's own anthology art. Each track had embedded anthology art as well. The anthology art was about 1-1.5MB in size. I cleared all the individual artwork and just used the master i when embedding for portable use (I looked up a new main artwork besides, 1 that was less than 50k). So that is an instance of when embedding the artwork isn't redundant. Information technology too happens to be the only album I can think of that does this. Embed cover art vs. putting it in binder Reply #18 – 2009-03-25 20:eighteen:00 In my opinion it's wrong to embed anthology fine art. From a data construction view an album art is not a property of a rail just a property of an entire anthology.Not a track has got a CD cover but an entire anthology does. Embed information technology to tracks is redundancy. Not a track has got an album name but an entire album does.However, the album-information technology-came-from IS a belongings of a single song, and I'one thousand betting you have the %album% field filled in in your tags. Past this logic, you could consider album-art-from-the-anthology-it-came-from to exist a property of a single song, similarly shared with other songs from that album the same as the standard %album% field.So the chief argument goes back to the back-up of having the same image file embedded in multiple audio files, which has been mentioned many times in this thread.If I e'er get an iPod I'd apply the foo_dop plugin which can deal with binder.jpg and add that album fine art to the iPod database. iTunes is abrasive on so many levels, although I understand the reasons that people use it. Last Edit: 2009-03-25 20:19:37 by timcupery Embed embrace art vs. putting information technology in folder Respond #19 – 2009-03-25 21:23:06 Does foo_dop support the iPhone? Embed cover fine art vs. putting it in folder Reply #xx – 2009-03-26 00:xl:05 The accented surefire way to ensure your encompass art displays is to embed direct in the file. Embed cover art vs. putting it in folder Reply #21 – 2009-03-26 00:49:17 My epitome is folder-per-anthology. As such, I only bother with files of anthology art. I get anthology art for free when tagging with foo_discogs. I'd never embed it, equally I don't like big chunks of binary data in my tags. This approach works fine with foo_dop and my iPod Video. Last Edit: 2009-03-26 00:49:37 by Canar Embed cover art vs. putting it in folder Reply #22 – 2009-03-26 03:54:31 I'm having an interesting effect with the Folder.jpg approach. Long agone, in the land before time, I used to utilise iTunes. I thought information technology was corking that it was able to download album artwork, and I had no thought virtually embedding or anything else; I just knew information technology downloaded most of my artwork. I now use foobar and the Album Art Downloader to snag my album art, and I couldn't be happier. However, recently, while transferring my collection to my jump drive, I noticed it was transferring a lot of random files/folders such as AlbumArtwork13$97831 and random crap like that. I selected all the folders on the spring drive and checked the properties, and apparently I somehow had 3900 files fifty-fifty though I only take about 2000 songs and maybe 250 albums, so my max file count should accept been something around 2300 in my mind. On top of that, I was unable to notice any of the random folders/files it said it was transferring, and have been unable to notice them on my computer as well. Now, before I go suggestions like "search subconscious files/folders etc." let it be known I have done that. And then my quest to get rid of all these random files begins. It began by clearing any and all embedded artwork from my files through Mp3tag, and just to be actress safe, I redownloaded iTunes to articulate the artwork from my files through in that location too. I then had Mp3tag reorganize my drove in a dissimilar directory with completely new folders so as to clear whatsoever artwork that was somehow all the same embedded in the folders just non present in the binder or mp3. I then proceeded to start copying my Folder.jpg artwork into the new directory, and noticed Windows is creating invisible files somewhere in one case I copy the Folder.jpg into the new directory. For example, one album I copied had thirteen tracks and the Binder.jpg file for a total of xiv files. If I back out to the root artist folder, information technology is showing as xv files with the invisible file taking upwardly almost an extra 600kb. I tin can now remove the Folder.jpg and the root artist folder will retain its pic (if I am viewing information technology thumbnail mode). How practise I make Windows terminate creating indistinguishable images for all my albums and hiding them wherever they are? Last Edit: 2009-03-26 03:56:ten past docnoq Embed embrace art vs. putting it in folder Reply #23 – 2009-03-26 17:28:55 An culling to the folder.jpg setup in iTunes is to but embed the artwork into the first rail of the album. It will brandish the artwork in iTunes for the entire album. I don't know if it will transfer that functionality to the iPod though.I actually prefer to embed the album art, but I concede that the folder.jpg setup actually makes more than sense. Embed embrace art vs. putting information technology in binder Answer #24 – 2009-03-26 17:36:45 It'south a shame that iTunes doesn't support folder.jpg, or at least have some provision to add artwork to its database.Having iTunes look for artwork for tracks ripped/encoded with other software is a complete joke! markwharb1983.blogspot.com Source: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=70685.0 Share this post
Embed encompass fine art vs. putting it in folder 2009-03-24 23:39:31 So, recently I've discovered MusicBrainz Picard and decided to reorganize my music collection (all in .mp3).At present, I want to add cover art wherever is possible.My dilemma is: embed cover fine art with mp3, or make a folder.jpg in album directory, or mayhap fifty-fifty both?What are pros and cons of each approach? Does any of software have problems with 1st or 2nd approach?I'm using Winamp (maybe I'll switch to foobar) and take Ipod Nano.I'm also considering on building HTPC so how does Windows display folder images (can it read from folder.jpg moving-picture show, or even from cover art embedded in mp3)?
Embed cover art vs. putting information technology in folder Reply #1 – 2009-03-25 03:51:33 Usually when cover art is embedded, each mp3 track on the album gets the cover art embedded in information technology. Each mp3 file has the same exact duplicate of the prototype, which is a lilliputian redundant. If you lot have a 12 track album with a 1mb album cover, you will be wasting about 11mb of space for each album. If you put ane encompass art picture in the album's folder, then y'all don't take to waste space. Also, if you ever need to update the album fine art, yous only have to update one file instead of every mp3.I know foobar supports getting the album fine art from a file in the album folder.
Embed embrace art vs. putting it in folder Respond #two – 2009-03-25 04:04:57 Yes and if each album cover is 100mb--whoa---what a problem!I think it is a petty disingenuous to suggest that this need exist standard usage. Although you may very well apply such album art...when op is asking virtually album art and portable media players in the same sentence I do not think maximum quality of art is a business organisation. OP, y'all demand to research the devices you are going to utilise. What exercise they support? That is, in my stance, the chief event. Many observe fine art- embedded or non - sized as minor as 50kb to work out just fine in bodily exercise. terry
Embed cover art vs. putting it in folder Answer #iii – 2009-03-25 04:16:17 different programs use dissimilar display methods.foobar2000 volition display paradigm files in the folder (usually named folder.jpg or encompass.jpg) just will too display an prototype embedded in the file. if both, the image embedded in the file overrides and gets displayed.Windows Media Player behaves similarly.I don't know near Winamp at this bespeak.I think that iTunes either embeds artwork or saves it in one of its large database files (because after all, you wouldn't need it elsewhere, because you lot'd never, e'er, possibly want to switch abroad from iTunes, correct?)But if you reinstall iTunes information technology can convert existing album art in the folder.jpg format. Not sure nigh how to get about information technology otherwise, only I'm no iTunes expert.
Embed cover art vs. putting it in folder Reply #4 – 2009-03-25 05:02:45 I employ both embedded and folder anthology fine art.What:500×500 px relatively low-quality JPEG images of just the front cover. Why:I employ foobar2000 to listen to music on my PC and an iPod to listen to it on-the-go.foobar2000 works very nicely with the Anthology Art Console plugin (foo_uie_albumart) to show folder anthology art, but it doesn't back up embedded album art.iTunes/iPod work very nicely with embedded album art but don't support folder album art. With the size of my collection, the embedded album fine art does end up taking a not-insignificant chunk of storage space (~30kB/file), simply the folder album art, being typically merely ~30kB / x-xx files is non quite as bad so it's really a no-brainer. If you're going to use embedded album art you might as well employ both.
Embed embrace art vs. putting it in binder Reply #v – 2009-03-25 05:25:55 foobar2000 works very nicely with the Album Art Panel plugin (foo_uie_albumart) to show folder anthology art, but it doesn't support embedded album art. foobar2000 will indeed brandish embedded anthology art. it doesn't edit embedded jpg files (I use mp3tag to exercise this) but it displays embedded album art simply fine, and if there'southward a file that has embedded art that's in a folder with its own folder.jpg, the embedded art will override the folder.jpg in foobar2000'southward brandish.This is true at to the lowest degree back to 0.nine.5.5, peradventure earlier.
Embed cover art vs. putting it in folder Reply #6 – 2009-03-25 08:34:10 I am not very sure of this, but I don't think an iPod volition display album art unless it is embedded in the music file itself. I don't know if iTunes recognizes separate 'folder.jpg' files and somehow magically makes them announced in the iPod. What I do know is that it cannot procedure 'cover.jpg' files, whereas Foobar2000 does that.
Embed comprehend art vs. putting it in folder Answer #vii – 2009-03-25 xi:36:33 If you have a 12 track album with a 1mb album embrace, you will be wasting well-nigh 11mb of infinite for each album. Aye, and let'southward say that someone chooses fairly high quality 500x500 JPGs as album fine art of 50KB each. Let's say the average album has 15 tracks. That is a whopping 750KB added to a 60MB+ album!
Embed cover art vs. putting it in binder Reply #viii – 2009-03-25 12:05:18 I am not very sure of this, simply I don't think an iPod will display album art unless it is embedded in the music file itself. I don't know if iTunes recognizes separate 'folder.jpg' files and somehow magically makes them appear in the iPod. What I do know is that information technology cannot process 'cover.jpg' files, whereas Foobar2000 does that. Will information technology automatically embed these when you add together a directory to iTunes with a folder.jpg image in information technology? Been wondering this for a while as I've finally started trying to sort out my anthology art! Cheers Paul.
Embed cover art vs. putting it in folder Respond #9 – 2009-03-25 12:39:46 Will it automatically embed these when you add a directory to iTunes with a folder.jpg epitome in information technology?Been wondering this for a while as I've finally started trying to sort out my anthology art! Cheers Paul. No, Itunes will not do this. Itunes will see embedded art or it uses its ain split database/file organisation for the album art. But information technology does not encounter the folder.jpg in a directory. This is one reason why I simply embed all my album fine art in each file. foobar and itunes both see it, nearly (all?) other players see information technology, etc. And the argument that information technology wastes space doesn't move me, equally the incremental space is piddling compared to the storage required for the files themselves.
Embed cover art vs. putting it in folder Answer #ten – 2009-03-25 12:49:39 Disk space is really not my problem. Let me rephrase myself.I think embedding encompass art is better (some think information technology'south redundant, but I'thousand not worrying about little space overhead) because if you move simply selected songs from anthology, iPod would display them correctly.I'm just worrying, would some players accept trouble if in music folder exists non-music information, like binder.jpg.It's non problem to me to do both, embed and put binder.jpg.Only I need to decide before reorganizing my music collection, cause it will save me a lot of time if I practice it a proper way (and later not saying to myself:"Stupid,stupid,stupid me )"
Embed cover art vs. putting it in binder Reply #11 – 2009-03-25 xiii:eighteen:12 Personally, I keep large 600x600 art in the album binder and embed smaller cover fine art in mp3s. I too keep boosted fine art in the binder as I as well similar seeing the insides and behind of a song's CD. Last Edit: 2009-03-25 xiii:twenty:08 by 2tec
Embed encompass art vs. putting it in folder Answer #12 – 2009-03-25 xv:17:29 Winamp will display album art stored as folder.jpg, cover.jpg, %album%.jpg or embedded in the tag. If you utilise the "Become Anthology Art" feature, information technology stores it equally %album%.jpg. (also .jpeg, .png, .gif or .bmp)
Embed cover art vs. putting it in folder Respond #thirteen – 2009-03-25 15:25:32 No, Itunes will not practise this. Itunes will see embedded art or it uses its ain separate database/file organization for the album art. Only it does not see the binder.jpg in a directory. This is one reason why I simply embed all my album art in each file. foobar and itunes both see it, about (all?) other players run into it, etc. And the argument that information technology wastes space doesn't motion me, every bit the incremental space is little compared to the storage required for the files themselves. Bugger. Stupid iTunes. I guess I'll accept to embed likewise. As you say I think the biggest files I have for album art are less than 50K so not a great add-on in terms of overall filesize.
Embed cover fine art vs. putting it in folder Respond #14 – 2009-03-25 16:11:34 I always embed my album art simply considering that is the only way for it to prove upward on all my devices. I have an iPod, AppleTV, car CD deck, PS3, and a few other devices that support album art with my files but only if it is embedded. I employ 500X500 jpeg images which increase my file sizes (sometimes) by less than 75k. A pocket-size cost to play to take album art displayed on all of my devices. I could run into how the folder.jpeg method would come up in handy as you could accept higher resolution (or less compressed) album fine art in a single file and only associate all the mp3s (or whatsoever) with it. I would use that method if iTunes and everything else I had supported it.
Embed cover fine art vs. putting it in folder Answer #xv – 2009-03-25 eighteen:48:48 In my opinion it's incorrect to embed album fine art. From a data structure view an anthology art is not a belongings of a rail only a holding of an entire album.Not a rail has got a CD cover but an unabridged anthology does. Embed information technology to tracks is redundancy.If I would shop my albums equally single ape/flac... files + cue it is correct to embed an anthology art.Only I store my CDs every bit individual files in folders and and so I only employ the folder.jpg every bit anthology art.I use Mediaportal http://www.team-mediaportal.com/ to listen to my albums on my HTPC and it handles folder.jpg only fine. I actually do desire album art there, considering it gets displayed on a large LCD TV.On my other devices (motorcar radio, mobile devices...) I do not need it an thus do not care about information technology.
Embed embrace fine art vs. putting it in folder Reply #16 – 2009-03-25 18:56:40 ^^ aforementioned hereAlso if you lot use the foobar ipod plugin information technology automatically transfers the folder.jpg to your ipod. Information technology works and I don't believe it embeds the art to the mp3s. I gauge it adds it to the ipod dbase.
Embed cover fine art vs. putting it in folder Answer #17 – 2009-03-25 20:10:45 In my opinion it's incorrect to embed album art. From a data structure view an album art is not a property of a runway simply a property of an unabridged album. Tell that to the hardware manufacturers who support but embedded album art. Although, I tin think of one album that has dissimilar covers on a per-runway basis. Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts I-Four was released (digitally past Trent) and each track had information technology's own anthology art. Each track had embedded anthology art as well. The anthology art was about 1-1.5MB in size. I cleared all the individual artwork and just used the master i when embedding for portable use (I looked up a new main artwork besides, 1 that was less than 50k). So that is an instance of when embedding the artwork isn't redundant. Information technology too happens to be the only album I can think of that does this.
Embed cover art vs. putting it in binder Reply #18 – 2009-03-25 20:eighteen:00 In my opinion it's wrong to embed anthology fine art. From a data construction view an album art is not a property of a rail just a property of an entire anthology.Not a track has got a CD cover but an entire anthology does. Embed information technology to tracks is redundancy. Not a track has got an album name but an entire album does.However, the album-information technology-came-from IS a belongings of a single song, and I'one thousand betting you have the %album% field filled in in your tags. Past this logic, you could consider album-art-from-the-anthology-it-came-from to exist a property of a single song, similarly shared with other songs from that album the same as the standard %album% field.So the chief argument goes back to the back-up of having the same image file embedded in multiple audio files, which has been mentioned many times in this thread.If I e'er get an iPod I'd apply the foo_dop plugin which can deal with binder.jpg and add that album fine art to the iPod database. iTunes is abrasive on so many levels, although I understand the reasons that people use it. Last Edit: 2009-03-25 20:19:37 by timcupery
Embed embrace art vs. putting information technology in folder Respond #19 – 2009-03-25 21:23:06 Does foo_dop support the iPhone?
Embed cover fine art vs. putting it in folder Reply #xx – 2009-03-26 00:xl:05 The accented surefire way to ensure your encompass art displays is to embed direct in the file.
Embed cover art vs. putting it in folder Reply #21 – 2009-03-26 00:49:17 My epitome is folder-per-anthology. As such, I only bother with files of anthology art. I get anthology art for free when tagging with foo_discogs. I'd never embed it, equally I don't like big chunks of binary data in my tags. This approach works fine with foo_dop and my iPod Video. Last Edit: 2009-03-26 00:49:37 by Canar
Embed cover art vs. putting it in folder Reply #22 – 2009-03-26 03:54:31 I'm having an interesting effect with the Folder.jpg approach. Long agone, in the land before time, I used to utilise iTunes. I thought information technology was corking that it was able to download album artwork, and I had no thought virtually embedding or anything else; I just knew information technology downloaded most of my artwork. I now use foobar and the Album Art Downloader to snag my album art, and I couldn't be happier. However, recently, while transferring my collection to my jump drive, I noticed it was transferring a lot of random files/folders such as AlbumArtwork13$97831 and random crap like that. I selected all the folders on the spring drive and checked the properties, and apparently I somehow had 3900 files fifty-fifty though I only take about 2000 songs and maybe 250 albums, so my max file count should accept been something around 2300 in my mind. On top of that, I was unable to notice any of the random folders/files it said it was transferring, and have been unable to notice them on my computer as well. Now, before I go suggestions like "search subconscious files/folders etc." let it be known I have done that. And then my quest to get rid of all these random files begins. It began by clearing any and all embedded artwork from my files through Mp3tag, and just to be actress safe, I redownloaded iTunes to articulate the artwork from my files through in that location too. I then had Mp3tag reorganize my drove in a dissimilar directory with completely new folders so as to clear whatsoever artwork that was somehow all the same embedded in the folders just non present in the binder or mp3. I then proceeded to start copying my Folder.jpg artwork into the new directory, and noticed Windows is creating invisible files somewhere in one case I copy the Folder.jpg into the new directory. For example, one album I copied had thirteen tracks and the Binder.jpg file for a total of xiv files. If I back out to the root artist folder, information technology is showing as xv files with the invisible file taking upwardly almost an extra 600kb. I tin can now remove the Folder.jpg and the root artist folder will retain its pic (if I am viewing information technology thumbnail mode). How practise I make Windows terminate creating indistinguishable images for all my albums and hiding them wherever they are? Last Edit: 2009-03-26 03:56:ten past docnoq
Embed embrace art vs. putting it in folder Reply #23 – 2009-03-26 17:28:55 An culling to the folder.jpg setup in iTunes is to but embed the artwork into the first rail of the album. It will brandish the artwork in iTunes for the entire album. I don't know if it will transfer that functionality to the iPod though.I actually prefer to embed the album art, but I concede that the folder.jpg setup actually makes more than sense.
Embed embrace art vs. putting information technology in binder Answer #24 – 2009-03-26 17:36:45 It'south a shame that iTunes doesn't support folder.jpg, or at least have some provision to add artwork to its database.Having iTunes look for artwork for tracks ripped/encoded with other software is a complete joke!
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