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Ultimate Album Art Fix
[Saint]:
--- Quote from: Reece on February 26, 2015, 04:25:36 PM ---Um, it does work. It's the only way I've found to make it work... Sure, there might be another, more complicated, way of doing it, but what I did worked. It even got me the album art in pictureflow. I did "discover" it for myself, because I had no prior knolage of this fix. I didn't look in the manual because I just happened to stumble upon the solution on my own. I understand you know more about it than I do, but the truth is it worked. So telling me this doesn't work is pointless, because, well, it did. so, yeah.
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Please point me to the part where I said that it doesn't work.
This task may prove to be somewhat difficult however, impossible in fact, because I never said anything of the sort.
What I took issue with, was:
--- Quote from: Reece on January 25, 2015, 01:25:00 PM ---Go into the album folder where alll your songs are, there should be a picture file there. The picture file has to be in JPEG format and you have to rename it as "cover"
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Which is absolutely, completely, and demonstrably untrue.
[Saint]
EDIT: Seems like you ninja edited your post to dis-include the portion I'm referring to where you stated I said it didn't work.
EDIT 2: I do appreciate the motivation behind your original post, it is admirable, to say the least. However, what I do not appreciate is the posting of misinformation when we have a perfectly good manual that explains this in detail, including the many format and location combinations album art may take.
EDIT 3: I just wanted to make it clear to anyone who stumbles across this post that the section of the manual that pertains to album art is clearly visible in the top level of the manual structure as "Section C" in the contents.
Reece:
I had changed my post after rereading yours because I found out I misread, secondly, yes, it does work. It worked for me to rename it as "cover." and convert it to JPEG. Why are you refuting what I have found to be true? Are you calling me a liar? Why is this even a problem? I have presented a solution to a common problem, it worked for me, so it might work for someone else. Why refute a solution that has been proven to work?
EDIT: I know it's in the manual, we all know, that's not the point, the point is that I wrote this post to allert people further to a fix that might work for them. I had no idea this was in the manual or not, and stated thus, again, the reason this is a problem is beond me.
If it's "absolutely, completely, and demonstrably untrue," why then, did it work for me? I tested this solution many times, trying to see if I was coincidentally doing something else that fixed it, but I found that simply renaiming the file "cover" and converting it to jpeg, if not so already, fixed the problem. So I was prompted to share my "discovery."
[Saint]:
--- Quote from: Reece on February 26, 2015, 08:50:05 PM ---<snip>...secondly, yes, it does work. It worked for me to rename it as "cover." and convert it to JPEG. Why are you refuting what I have found to be true? Are you calling me a liar?...<snip>...If it's "absolutely, completely, and demonstrably untrue," why then, did it work for me?...<snip>
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Again, and hopefully for the last time, I will reiterate that I have said no such thing.
Allow me to re-quote a section from my last post, this time I'll add some emphasis:
--- Quote from: [Saint] on February 26, 2015, 04:54:27 PM ---What I took issue with, was:
--- Quote from: Reece on January 25, 2015, 01:25:00 PM ---Go into the album folder where alll your songs are, there should be a picture file there. The picture file has to be in JPEG format and you have to rename it as "cover"
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Now, allow me to quote directly from the manual section that describes this clearly:
C.1 Limitations
Rockbox supports embedded album art only for some specific formats, see section B.2.1 for full details. It additionally supports loading images located on the hard disk. PictureFlow is currently unable to use embedded album art. The image files must be in either BMP or JPEG format, while embedded album art is currently limited to JPEG. Embedded JPEG images must not be unsynchronized. Rockbox does not support RLE-compressed BMP files, nor does it support progressive and multi-scan JPEG files. JPEG files must consist of a single scan with interleaved components, as progessive and multi-scan images require much more memory to decode.
C.2 Where to put album art
The pictures can be named a number of different ways, and placed to a number of different locations. You can have pictures specific to the file or the album or use a generic picture. You can place the picture in the same directory as the file, in the parent directory or in a fixed directory named /.rockbox/albumart/. The order Rockbox uses when looking for a picture is as follows (a list in braces means that those file extensions are tried in that order):
1. embedded (JPEG images in ID3v2 or MP4 tags only)
2. ./filename.{jpeg,jpg,bmp}
3. ./albumtitle.{jpeg,jpg,bmp}
4. ./cover.{jpeg,jpg,bmp}
5. ./folder.jpg
6. /.rockbox/albumart/albumartist-albumtitle.{jpeg,jpg,bmp}
7. ../albumtitle.{jpeg,jpg,bmp}
8. ../cover.{jpeg,jpg,bmp}
I have never, not once, ever, at all, period, stated that your solution doesn't work. It is indeed one of the allowable album art location and naming scheme options, and that is the key here..."one of" the possible solutions, one of many.
Album art does not have to be located in the same directory as the media.
Album art does not have to be in JPEG format.
And album art does not have to be named "cover".
Now as I stated already, and will do so again, I find the intentions of the original post admirable to say the least. However, I do take issue with misinformation. Especially so when we have a manual that clearly and precisely explains the task at hand and the information can be located so trivially.
[Saint]
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