Incorrect Album Art

[Will07]

Hey i've recently had a problem on my iPod Video (5th gen) where the album art for newly added songs always reverts to the album art of a David Bowie album, ive deleted and re initialized the database as well as manually deleting it. im not sure what to do and any help is appreciated!

Thanks in advance
Will07

[Frankenpod]

How are your files organised?

[Will07]

Their all in one big folder, they are all correctly tagged by mp3tag. their file names are Artist - Song.mp3

[Frankenpod]

If they are all in one big folder rockbox is likely just picking up whatever is the cover.jpg or folder.jpg art in that folder, which would be the same for all of them.

More common arrangement would be to have a folder for each album (as a sub-folder of each artist folder), and a cover.jpg file in each album folder.

Do you have embedded art in the files?  I am not sure which rockbox gives priority to if there's both embedded art _and_ folder art.  And also embedded art only works if it's non-progressive jpg.

[Will07]

It's all embedded. it was working fine but now anything without cover art just gets given the cover art from that album

[Frankenpod]

When you say "anything without cover art", you mean some tracks don't have embedded art?  Can you not give those the correct art in embedded form?

And is the embedded art all in non-progressive jpg form?  Unfortunately rockbox can't display embedded pngs or progressive jpgs.

Might be that the solution is to reorganise your files into one album-per-folder.

[Will07]

Yea some of my songs are from an older iPod and somewhere down the line a lot of album art was lost. I dont think sorting it will work. some of my songs are in folders (i got lazy and stopped doing that). i can confirm that only rockbox is getting the wrong album art. iTunes and mp3tag see it correctly

[Frankenpod]

Well iTunes does album art its own way, so it is likely to give different results to rockbox.

  According to the manual rockbox looks for album art through a list of different places, in order, so if it doesn't find it in the earlier locations it will pick up whatever it finds elsewhere.  Maybe its finding something in the parent directory?

I'd guess it's picking up something that  is a 'hidden file' for windows, so you can't see it (as I think .folder files are).



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}

[Will07]

Would there be a way to get rockbox to only read embedded art files?

[Will07]

nvm i fixed it, there was a hidden file that was causing the problem... Thank you so much for the help!