Album Art patch - read it from ID3?

[Kitty]

hey guys and gals,

i use Tag&Rename program to handle the id3 tags of my music..
and i'v added a album art to my songs.. like in the picture here:



the image information is stored in the .mp3 file (or whatever..)

now, why can't Album Art patch read it?

[DanManners]

because that's not how the album art patch works. It works with album.bmp, i think, in the folder. the album art patch can't read embedded images in the MP3 or any other file format.

-Dan

[Kitty]

ok good reason :]

then how about the rockbox itself, can it read it?

[Llorean]

No, because Rockbox does not support album art at all without the patch.

[stripwax]

Kitty - here's another good reason.  If you store the album art in the ID3 tags, it makes your ID3 file bigger.  If you have an album of music (let's say 10 tracks) then EVERY ONE of those ten tracks is unnecessarily including the same album art image in that track's ID3 tag.  10 tracks = 10 identical images embedded in ID3 tags.  That is such a waste of space.  What the album art patch does it better -  one image per album (hence the name, in fact.)

[Kitty]

yea i figured that.. its only like 5kb more.. but whatever :]

thanks anyway.

[accel]

Kitty - here's another good reason.  If you store the album art in the ID3 tags, it makes your ID3 file bigger.  If you have an album of music (let's say 10 tracks) then EVERY ONE of those ten tracks is unnecessarily including the same album art image in that track's ID3 tag.  10 tracks = 10 identical images embedded in ID3 tags.  That is such a waste of space.  What the album art patch does it better -  one image per album (hence the name, in fact.)

yeah but .bmp's are a lot bigger than jpegs

[2202083]

Kitty - here's another good reason.  If you store the album art in the ID3 tags, it makes your ID3 file bigger.  If you have an album of music (let's say 10 tracks) then EVERY ONE of those ten tracks is unnecessarily including the same album art image in that track's ID3 tag.  10 tracks = 10 identical images embedded in ID3 tags.  That is such a waste of space.  What the album art patch does it better -  one image per album (hence the name, in fact.)

yeah but .bmp's are a lot bigger than jpegs

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[Yotto]

Okay, first of all, we're discussing a patch in an inappropriate forum, which is a no-no.

Secondly, "raw images versus id3 tags" is a totally seperate issue than "bitmaps versus jpegs."  If the person who wrote the album art patch (or one of you who want it were to do it for him, as I'm sure he's overworked as it is) were to implement id3 tag images, they'd have to implement jpg images as well.  Then guess what?  Cover.jpg would work.

So get at it, "I bet it's not that hard to do."