i found out the hex i was seeing was something written in the wps.
so it was no ones fault but the wps creator

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i used the v2.0.2 of said wps and made the changes you suggested to the bottom.
i've tried
# Cover Art
%Cl|0|28|s100|s100|
%C
and
# Cover Art
%Cl|0|28|s100|s100|
%C|
both at the top and bottom of the wps (don't know what difference this makes)
i've used only
bmp_resize_v0.99.6-MM.20060913.patchi've followed these instructions for making the cover.bmp
album art auto resize patch(support 24bit bmp/8-bit palette bmp/Mono bmp)
cover.bmp is resized by the automatic operation according to wps.
When reducing, the interpolation reduction is done.(ALL LCD type)
bmp file MAX Width is 1024.
i've used my own cygwin compiling environment (as per the instructions for isntalling cygwin rockbox compiling environment in windows)
i've even tried the vmware pre-installed environment.
everything compiles with no errors (both sims and device compiles)
(nano, h10_20GB, iaudiox5)
and it still won't show album art.
the builds work fine on my devices and in the sims with no errors. i got no errors from in the wps or glitches.
could it be the music setup? i have my folders as such
.rockbox
music
----Flow (this is the artist folder)
---------cover.bmp (album art inside artist folder)
---------go.mp3 (music file inside artist folder)
any suggestions? im probably starting to get annoying i know, it's just i hate to give up on something when so many other people have had success with it.