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vocrobot:
I have used the search facility to find the answer to this but whatever I try doesn't work.

The instructions for having album art don't make sense to me at all; I have looked at the wiki but I still don't get it. As a test I copied an album over to my iPod and from what someone posted on the forum I copied a jpeg of the album art into the album folder and renamed it with the name of the album. Thinking this would work I started to play the first track but no album art appears. I want to ditch iTunes and go with the drag and drop method because Rockbox is so good but I like my album art and I just can't get it to work. There is no embedded album art within the tracks and just one copy of the album art in that album folder which as I said earlier was all that I thought was needed but no artwork comes up.

What is the easiest way to set it up? I understand almost all of the Rockbox features but this one has me baffled.



PAUL

yapper:
Make sure that the tracks are tagged with the album title, exactly as you have named the jpeg file.

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/UsefulTools#MP3_Tagging_Organization

Ste-:
Is the jpeg single scan with interleaved components ?
convert the image to a bmp and rename it to cover.bmp and test it then.
That should be the most foolproof way to get albumart working.

vocrobot:
I don't think it has interleaved components. When I booted up the iPod I checked the picture using the jpeg viewer and it came up OK. I'd read if it showed OK there it should be OK.

I have just noticed however that it is an iTunes AAC encoded album. Will that make a big difference. All my MP3s are tagged using iTunes but I haven't tried an MP3 encoded album yet. I shall do some more testing tomorrow and see if I can get some results from there. Thanks for the responses I've been given.



PAUL

saratoga:

--- Quote from: vocrobot on February 09, 2010, 06:30:38 PM ---I don't think it has interleaved components. When I booted up the iPod I checked the picture using the jpeg viewer and it came up OK. I'd read if it showed OK there it should be OK.

--- End quote ---

Select the file in rockbox and open it.  If it opens, its compatible with rockbox.  If it doesn't open, it is not.


--- Quote from: vocrobot on February 09, 2010, 06:30:38 PM ---I have just noticed however that it is an iTunes AAC encoded album. Will that make a big difference.

--- End quote ---

Does the album play in Rockbox?  If yes, then it doesn't matter.  If no, then you will probably have trouble viewing album art with it.

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