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How do you transfer your files and work with your jpgs?

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LambdaCalculus:
1) Everyone else has answered that already. ;)

2) I just use drag-and-drop as well.

dreamlayers:
For album art, I made a script which uses ImageMagick and some small utilities to make 256x256 PNG icons for Vista.  The process is automated, though non-square images can sometimes result in a bad crop, and so I look through cropped files to see what needs some touching up.  To make album art for Rockbox, I can extract the PNG info from the .ICO files and then use ImageMagick to resize and convert the image. 

I've transferred files in various ways.  Most times I've just dragged and dropped, but sometimes I tried to automate refilling the entire device, because dragging and dropping from multiple locations involves far too much waiting.  (Nothing prevents me from having multiple copy operations running simultaneously, but that would probably lead to a lot of fragmentation.)

I'm pretty happy with my latest attempt.  I used "du -Sm" to get a list of how many megs were in each directory.  Then I imported that into Excel, and trimmed stuff out while monitoring the sum.  When that became too hard I randomly selected a subset of what was remaining.  I exported the list of directories to a text file and used sed and a text editor to create batch files to create directories and copy files.  If I look at what I wrote here it seems like a lot of work, but it's less work than drag and drop.

NooB ICAN:
Thank you all for your responses. I appreciate your feedback.


--- Quote from: karashata on December 04, 2008, 03:53:04 PM ---(I don't know much about iTunes, but you might want to see if it has a way of downloading and saving album art images to the hard drive as well, that could save you getting an app you don't need... It does download album art, doesn't it..?)


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iTunes does allow album art. It even allows me to edit the mp3 info.

And that's really the only reason I'm slow to switch. I began the whole project as a diy juke box. So from the beginning I saved a 600x600 pixel jpg for each album. I like being able to view the artwork as I browse through deciding what to load onto my ipod.

Thank you again.

Zardoz:
stick with iTunes then I'd say. Personally I like how rockbox dispenses with the need for 'transfer' software. You can use your file explorer. AlbumArt is unneeded, if you ask me. It's a nice feature but it's not rockbox.

karashata:
How is album art not Rockbox..? It's not as if album art support has to be added via a patch anymore like it had been for so long, it's part of the core code. Also, it looks like there's a bitmap resize patch (forum topic here) that may make it into SVN soon so making album art images will be even easier since one will only need to make one larger image which can be scaled down for themes using smaller images...

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