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Cover art issue!

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Serenity:
I loved Rockbox well before it supported album art.  I love having album art now, but it's like icing on the cake.  I'm much more concerned with the ridiculous number of cool things Rockbox makes an otherwise mundane piece of hardware capable of.  Dealing with embedded cover art on my iPod Touch was fiddly and frustrating compared to the ease of just dropping the image in the folder with the music...which is where I kept it anyway.

Styphelus:
Each music file has an id3 tag. I like mine to be complete with as much info as possible, and that includes the album cover and lyrics. Seems perfectly normal to me. That way I can take that one music  file and play it on any computer, or any mp3 player or any device and it will always carry it's id3 tag with it. There's no need for any additional files. Every piece of information pertaining to that particular song will be right there in front of you no matter where you choose to play it. That's the way it's supposed to be.

Having an additional 3000 different image files to show album cover just seems redundant and a big step backwards. Certainly not an option I would consider.

The most basic players today are capable of displaying info on id3 tags. We are in 2010 after all. It's not like these tags are anything new. I find it extremelly weird that rockbox can't read them properlly. Bad code is my guess.

Llorean:
No code is the right answer. I certainly don't see you volunteering to write the code. It's open source and depends on volunteers? Care to step up, or are you just going to whine but not actually do anything?

Fact of the matter is, storing them separately like this uses less disk space, offers more flexibility, and over all is better for many users.

The main problem is that of the people who want this feature, they're all too lazy to do anything but complain about it not being there and not do any actual work to resolve the issue.

kage:
well say that I don't have that many albums, and I want to include the 'album.jpeg' tag in there somewhere...
where exactly do I put it?
and how do I access the files?
I have all my files on my ipod from itunes, and they all show up in the database...
if I go into my files on the computer, and put an 'album.jpeg' tag in the a;lbum folder in the itunes library, should that sync those files to my ipod?

sorry, I just downloaded rockbox yesterday, and this is the only negative I can see so far!
I love everything else!

TexasRockbox:
I like the separate file in the folder.  Don't want anything more than I have to have in the file.  Don't want to rewrite every music file in a folder every time I find better artwork -- less chance of corruption.

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