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Any way to display embedded art on Video iPod?

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Febs:
I'm not aware of anyone who is working on embedded album art support.

linuxstb:

--- Quote from: lalittle on August 26, 2006, 07:32:11 PM ---Do you happen to know if this is something that is being looked into by anyone?  I know it's "possible" (since the native apple firmware does it) but I have no idea if it's something that is being worked on.  I personally think it would be a great feature -- to me, it's a rather odd ommission from the otherwise extensive Rockbox features -- but I have absolutely no experience in programming this sort of thing myself, and my time is limited as well.

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As far as I know, the Apple firmware doesn't display embedded album art - when iTunes syncs your music with your iPod, it extracts the album art from the tags and stores it as pre-scaled uncompressed images in an album art database on your ipod.  Very similar to the approach of storing album art in pre-scaled .bmp files used by the Rockbox album art patch.

saratoga:
You could probably write a script that uses a command line id3 tag parser and jpeg resize program to do this offline.  Doing it online would be a lot harder I think.

lalittle:

--- Quote from: linuxstb on August 26, 2006, 08:18:10 PM ---As far as I know, the Apple firmware doesn't display embedded album art - when iTunes syncs your music with your iPod, it extracts the album art from the tags and stores it as pre-scaled uncompressed images in an album art database on your ipod.  Very similar to the approach of storing album art in pre-scaled .bmp files used by the Rockbox album art patch.

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Just to clarify, I don't use iTunes at all.  I use J.River Media Center (VASTLY more powerful than iTunes) to sync my iPod, but I'm assuming that it most likely works the same way iTunes does for cover art since it uses the native apple firmware.  I noticed a few files in the "Artwork" folder on the iPod, so I'm guessing that these are the files you're talking about.

This of course brings up the question of whether or not Rockbox can utilize THIS cover art -- i.e. can Rockbox access and use the files that iTunes and JR Media Center use for cover art?  This would be a lot easier than creating a second "set" of cover art files just for Rockbox.

Thanks again for all the help with this.

Larry

AlexP:

--- Quote from: lalittle on August 27, 2006, 12:47:46 AM ---This of course brings up the question of whether or not Rockbox can utilize THIS cover art -- i.e. can Rockbox access and use the files that iTunes and JR Media Center use for cover art?  This would be a lot easier than creating a second "set" of cover art files just for Rockbox.

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I guess a problem with this is that Rockbox runs on lots of players, not just iPods.  Other players might have different formats, so why shouldn't that be the basis for the Rockbox system, not the iPod one?  All I'm saying is that in designing a Rockbox album art system, it should be what works best with Rockbox itself and all supported hardware, and not just do it one way because the iPod does.

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