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Shebb:
Here is an update to the jpeg plugin:
http://www.geocities.com/henriksens2710/jpeg.htm
It now allows small images to be viewed whilst any audio is playing.  I think one way to view album art would be to press something like play+ab from the wps or something.  With play as a modifier more feypresses are possible.  The jpeg plugin would then loadup the file cover.jpg in the same folder as the currently playing song if it exists.

kenshin:
ON (play) + A-B brings up the ID3 tags screen. Your best bet would be ON + a joystick click or ON + Rec. That's assuming you're using an iRiver. I don't have an Archos so I have no idea what the key bindings are on those players to know if there's any key combinations still free. Something else to consider is that not all the embedded JPEG images in MP3 tags are small. I have more a few with very large files (upwards of 1 meg) that would have to be downscaled just to fit in the available buffer, not to mention on the screen. I guess if you know your image is always small it makes sense but if you're like me you embed a high res image not a 100x100 thumbnail.

It also makes more sense to load the embedded APIC if one exists than to assume a filename "cover.jpg". I sure don't use that naming convention but I do embed the cover image. That means my Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files don't have embedded images so I'll never be able to use this feature as it is currently. I'm sure I'm not alone.

amiconn:
FYI: the view-small-images-with-music playing hack won't work on the archos, because the plugin buffer is way too tiny for that. The plugin buffer size is 32 KB (RAM is a valuable resource on archos!), of which the jpeg plugin already takes ~25 KB. It's obviously impossible to fit grayscale buffer, compressed image and decoded image into the remaining 7 (!) KB. The grayscale buffer needs 28 KB on its own...

On a related note, it doesn't make any sense to me to embed images in tags. First, an mp3 or other audio file is supposed to contain audio data, and tags are supposed to contain information about the audio track. Everything else is a waste of resources. I don't count covers or the like as information about the track.

Just my $0.02

kenshin:

--- Quote from: amiconn on July 29, 2005, 03:59:22 PM ---On a related note, it doesn't make any sense to me to embed images in tags. First, an mp3 or other audio file is supposed to contain audio data, and tags are supposed to contain information about the audio track. Everything else is a waste of resources. I don't count covers or the like as information about the track.

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I use it only because it is there. I actually don't rip files to MP3. I find most of the ID3 tags are completely useless. If it were never there, I would be just as content (after all, Ogg Vorbis doesn't have it and that's what I rip to).

roolku:

--- Quote from: Shebb on July 29, 2005, 10:00:54 AM ---Here is an update to the jpeg plugin:
http://www.geocities.com/henriksens2710/jpeg.htm
It now allows small images to be viewed whilst any audio is playing. 
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Thanks a lot for the update! I love it. :)

Roolku

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