Embedded album art

[zajacattack]

I want to know why embedded album art hasn't been implemented yet. A lot of mp3 players display embedded album art (e.g. iPod, Sansa). I have songs with embedded album art, and I don't know why rockbox hasn't been able to use them. Many original firmwares can.

[saratoga]

Rockbox doesn't support cover art, so embedded art is not supported either.  

[mikeage]

I want to know why embedded album art hasn't been implemented yet. A lot of mp3 players display embedded album art (e.g. iPod, Sansa). I have songs with embedded album art, and I don't know why rockbox hasn't been able to use them. Many original firmwares can.

Probably because we're still waiting for you to write the patch that does it.

There's also the fact that standalone embedded art is waiting for the "metadata on bufffer" task to handle (arbitrary) supplemental data.

I assume that once that's ready, there might be some thought given to including embedded art instead of just standalone art.

It's also worth noting that embedded art is (always? usually?) JPG, and the main branch is still BMP only (the JPG viewer code has not yet been formally accepted)

[Llorean]

Umm, the jpeg viewer works fine, and has since before there were color players. I don't know what you mean by "the JPG viewer code has not been formally accepted."

There is no jpeg decoding functions in the core, if that's what you meant, but the viewer has been around since the Archos days.

[mikeage]

I thought it was still a patch, not part of the distribution. Never mind.

[polygonal]

...A lot of mp3 players display embedded album art (e.g. iPod, Sansa).

Just a minor correction, ipod does NOT display embedded album art. It is itunes who pull all your embedded album art out of your files and lump them into a separate database file, and your ipod reads from that database file rather than the actual embedded album art. I suspect that other DAP that use their own database also do not read directly from the files.

[dana7]

Just for the record, I could care less about album art on the player.  It is just a distraction, and I would disable it if given a choice.  I suspect many others would too.

My vote says spend the valuable developer time on things that improve the usability, stability, and sound quality.  

[LinusN]

I think embedded cover art would be a nice thing to support. It would make life a lot easier for the user.

[pondlife]

Hopefully, the Metadata-On-Buffer work that Nico_P's leading will both improve stability AND lead to album art support.  Everyone's a winner!

pondlife

[petur]

couldn't the jpeg decoder be implemented as a codec so that it can be called briefly to load process the jpeg? Just a codec swap at startup after the first chunk of audio is decoded. Get the jpeg data from the MoB and dump the result there too?

[Gamesoul Master]

For the record, I've seen embedded album art as both jpg and bmp format (not at the same time or in the same file, but you get what I mean). Though using bmp format for embedded art is about as intelligent as using a 1200x1200 image... both of which I've seen many times, unfortunately.