album art

[boxrock]

is it possible to add album art after the file is on the iPod? i'm able to edit tags after they're on the player but am having trouble figuring out the album art. 

[saratoga]

Yes, it makes no difference when you add album art, so long as its there when you play the file.

[boxrock]

Yes, it makes no difference when you add album art, so long as its there when you play the file.

Hi what do you mean?

[yapper]

Yes it is possible to add album art after the file is on the iPod

[boxrock]

it won't let me. does it only work with certain formats of file? i'm trying to do it on flac files, everytime i edit in mp3tag and add a cover it doesn't show on the ipod
Post Merge: August 03, 2012, 04:35:54 PMi've just opened the album art in question on the ipod, it says unsupported? it's a JPEG though? is there a patch so I can get jpeg to work?

[saratoga]

Regular jpeg is supported but some of the weird variants aren't. If you've got one the regular windows software will convert them.

[boxrock]

what is a variant of jpeg? how do I convert it? I never knew there was more than one type of jpeg

[saratoga]

As I said, the regular windows jpeg viewer will convert to normal jpeg. 

[boxrock]

As I said, the regular windows jpeg viewer will convert to normal jpeg. 

thanks

[Debug]

Hi

I installed RockBox on my "unsupported" Classic 6 gen today - and its great.  It works really well.

I'm terribly disappointed that it does not support embedded album art.

If I had written a play program album art would be 3rd on my list (after play and pause).

Programs like Winamp does not sync album art like folder.jpg to a device.  Having to do this manually is unpleasant.

What are the dimensions and name required for the jpg I cannot find any info on this?

Thanks

[evilnick]

Here's a link to the Album Art manual page for the iPod Video (the nearest target to the iPod Classic): http://download.rockbox.org/daily/manual/rockbox-ipodvideo/rockbox-buildap3.html#x19-381000C

[Debug]

Hi there EvilNick

Thanks for the info.  I extracted all the embeded Art with Tang&Rename (75 gigs of MP3 on USB iPOD took a long time) and converted them all to 200 x 200 jpeg quality 12 with Photoshop batch image.  Problem is that Photoshop gives very little control over the format of the jpg files.

I've often had problems with Oracle DB's being unhappy with Photoshop formats.  Maybe there's another tool which can batch resize and convert jpgs better.  Some work about half don't

Thanks again Nick Much appreciated