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Album Artwork Display Problem

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Strife89:
Putting album art in the same folder as the song makes Rockbox look only at the file names, not the tag information. Since iTunes converts the filenames into random numbers (and files the songs into equally random folders), doing this helps you none.

Make a folder under /.rockbox called albumart. Take all your album art .bmp files and rename them artist name-album name.bmp, then put them in that folder.

Rockbox should identify the song - and it's album art - using the tag information.

(Yes, I know bzavala. Just clearing things up. :-[ )

hhannah:
trane_bwc, using the method you chose for naming the bmp files requires the name of the bmp file to be exactly the same as the name of the file for that song (i.e. for song.mp3, AA file should be song.bmp), but any character that you miss, change, etc can cause AA displaying problems

There are several ways to do this, as others explained. For me, this works perfectly:

if you have your music using a folder for each album, and you use one AA image per album - that is, the same image for all the songs in that folder - you can name your file simply "cover.bmp", and put it in that folder. That is simple and will work. In the end you will have a .bmp file named exactly cover.bmp in each folder, and that image will be used by rockbox to display AA for all the songs in that folder. By the way, the "correct size" for that AA image should be 100x100 (just because many themes use this size as a standard) and not 100x99 as you mentioned.

The Album Art link that you read explains it, as well as other options - the one I suggest you is 3), strife89 mentioned 4), and you were trying to do 1)  :

" from http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/AlbumArt#Where_To_Put_The_Images :

Where To Put The Images
The pictures can be stored in the same directory (.) as the track or in the parent directory (..). There can be a track-specific, album-specific or generic picture.

The order of priority is the following:

1) ./ filename .bmp - same filename as currently playing music file
2) ./ albumtitle .bmp - name of the album, found in metadata of the music file
3) ./cover.bmp
4) /.rockbox/albumart/ artist-albumtitle .bmp
5) ../ albumtitle .bmp
6) ../cover.bmp
"

trane_bwc:
hi
ok, i rearranged all the songs per folder, now the only thing i have to do is to put the image and name it ''cover'' right?, or do i have to name the image the same as the name of the album?

also can you tell me where i can download pictures in 100x100 resolution, cause the only resolutions i found is 100x99,100x105,100x95.

THANKS
A LOT: HHANNAH, STRIFE89 & BZAVALA


GREETINGS

hhannah:
Now that you have a folder per album, naming the image files cover.bmp will work fine; try a couple first and see how it works.

A tool I have found very useful for bmp resizing & converting is IrfanView (freeware), you can resize all your images to 100x100 and name them cover.bmp, regardless of the original size.

trane_bwc:
hi
damn i have another problem, now that i re-arranged all the songs per folder, when i turn on my ipod an want to play the file it says NO FILE!!!, or TRACK ERROR, i dont know why this appears.

soory, but can you help me with this one too?
GREETINGS

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