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Cover art issue!

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Styphelus:
Can someone tell me if rockbox has fixed the issues with the album cover art? In previous versions you had to create a cover.bmp file and stick it in the album folder.

The problem with that is that not everyone has full albums on their mp3 player. I for one do not. I have all my music files in one folder. I have spent months converting hundresds of cds into flac and adding high res album covers to each song. Than I took about 3000 of my favourites ones and put them all together in folders organized by decade. As you can see, this album.bmp business doesn't work. It's only good for basic music collections and not huge libraries of assorted music.

I don't know why rockbox wasn't able to just read the album cover straight from the music file. Even the crapiest music player can do that these days.

If anyone could tell me if this issue has been fixed, I would appreciate it. I gave up on rockbox a long time ago just because of this issue. I was hoping to be able to use it again.

Llorean:
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/AlbumArt

Styphelus:
Thanks. Guess the answer is NO!

No Embedded Album Art Support.
" it's presence has been known to cause freezes and other problems so it's advised that it be removed from your files."

LOL! Seriously? Thought this issue would have been solved by now. Guess I won't be using rockbox after all. This was the reason I stopped using it in the first place.

Too bad. Such a nice piece of software with such a big flaw.

Yotto:
You are not restricted to "cover.bmp" in the album folder.
You can use "cover.jpg" as well.
You can use "albumname.bmp" (or .jpg) as well, based on the id3 tag of the album.
You can use "filename.bmp" (or .jpg) as well for single-file art.

The idea of forcing me to load album art into each and every music file on my system seems weird to me. I much prefer it the way it is.

Chronon:
As the AlbumArt page shows, there are several places you can choose to store album art.  Option #5 should be agnostic to where you actually store your music files.

I think your priorities are a bit backward if you choose your music player based on support for album art embedded in metadata tags rather than codec support, ability to edit and create playlists, and other abilities related to actual playback of your music.

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