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How to use your embedded album art from iTunes (the easy way)

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GodEater:
I'm not certain the DOS (or XP Command Prompt's) "find" command is up to this without a bit of extra help.

The equivalent from a linux bash prompt though would work :


--- Code: ---find /Music -name "*.bmp" -execdir mv \{\} cover.bmp \;

--- End code ---

That would do the whole lot.

I've just checked on Google, and a version of the GNU version of find (which is what linux uses) is available for windows from here : http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ (Downloads are here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9328&package_id=9393&release_id=490307)

You could then use the above command like this (slightly modified to use a Windows path, and the Windows 'move' rather than linux 'mv'). Replace the I:\Music with wherever your Music directory actually is on your computer :


--- Code: ---find I:\Music -name "*.bmp" -execdir move \{\} cover.bmp \;

--- End code ---

soap:

--- Quote from: blueskip on January 15, 2008, 10:26:11 PM ---So what is the proper method to tell someone their wikki is incorrect?  You cannot always put the bitmaps in the base folder.   It doesn't work.  
--- End quote ---
Where is the wiki incorrect?
For:

--- Quote from: blueskip on January 16, 2008, 04:40:52 AM ---They are named by xport as:

artist-album.mp3

--- End quote ---
(I'll assume you mean artist-album.bmp) (Bitmap, not jpeg - but that is another conversation)
Artist-Album.bmp is not one of the supported naming formats as described in the wiki.



Edit #1:
I understand you've spent a lot of time on this.
I understand you're frustrated.
But now, after three posts, it appears clear the problem is very different than what you originally described.
Please, take the time to clearly and completely state your problem, post with as clean of grammar as possible - and proof-read your posts for spelling and other mistakes.



Edit #2:

--- Quote from: blueskip on January 15, 2008, 10:26:11 PM ---but the album art does not work with the Rockflow theme if the song is two subfolders down from the art.  
--- End quote ---
The wiki only claims that album art works in the ./ (current) and ../ (parent) directory.
Example if you are playing:
D:/Music/The Beatles/Abbey Road/03 - Maxwell's Silver Hammer.mp3
Album art belongs in ./Abbey Road
or ../The Beatles

Multiplex:
@blueskip

if you are looking for the DOS command you want to get a DOS/command box and navigate to your X:\music directory/folder then type


--- Code: ---for /R %a in (*.bmp) do ren "%a" cover.bmp
--- End code ---

Or if you are of a nervous disposition (or just naturally cautions about taking advice from strangers on forums) copy all the BMP files to a temporary directory (create c:\temp\music, change to it, XCOPY /S X:\music\*.bmp, then do the above)

All this is from memory but I've done something similar and it worked.

blueskip:

--- Quote ---(I'll assume you mean artist-album.bmp) (Bitmap, not jpeg - but that is another conversation)
Artist-Album.bmp is not one of the supported naming formats as described in the wiki.
--- End quote ---

You are incorrect.  It exports them as jpeg that I have to further batch convert.  I had GREAT difficulty finding a batch conversion that would not make the files in sequential order with the same name.  IE. cover(1).bmp, cover(2).bmp, cover(3).bmp and so on.

So I had to settle for a method that didn't change the original names of the files.  

I found a program to FURTHER batch convert them after my last post to cover.bmp for each folder.  

Thank you Multiplex but I've managed to accomplish this with another program.

I still have some repair to do because I would guess 20% of the files didn't export using "xport".  I'm positive they have artwork in the file though.  The reason I know the artwork is in the file is I batch DELETED all of this artwork I'm putting back now for Rockbox months and months ago.  HENCE my dislike for the lack of embedded album art support.  


--- Quote ---Where is the wiki incorrect?
--- End quote ---
You quoted the problem.  ??  You CAN'T always put .bmps into the BASE folder.  THE BASE folder...BASE.  Not the folder the .mp3 resides in.

For example If you have:

Music>>Artist>>Album>>name.mp3

You cannot put a bitmap with the artist, album, or mp3 name in the MUSIC folder and it actually work.  It won't.  Been there and done that.  Doesn't work, at all, ever.  Not in any way.  

MUSIC is the BASE folder.  

NOW if you ammend the wikki to say the ITUNES formatted music BASE folder, it may work....I don't know, as I converted my music FROM itunes to use it in rockbox for drag'n'drop from any computer.  This way I can actually read the file names.

Still annoyed that I have to go through and manually find as many as 200-500 songs with no method of knowing which has artwork and which don't without looking in the folder.  BECAUSE when I view them in every program I know of EXCEPT rockbox the embedded artwork shows up.  SO now I have to hunt for a program that will not view embedded album art but WILL tag them to cut down on time.  

Does any such animal exist?

MarcGuay:

--- Quote from: blueskip on January 16, 2008, 11:24:27 AM ---You quoted the problem.  ??  You CAN'T always put .bmps into the BASE folder.  THE BASE folder...BASE.  Not the folder the .mp3 resides in.

--- End quote ---

From the AlbumArt wiki:

"The pictures can be stored in the same directory (.) as the track or in the parent directory (..)."

Base folder?

In your situation this means the .bmp has to be either in the Album folder or the Artist folder.

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