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How to use your embedded album art from iTunes (the easy way)
MarcGuay:
I like to think of the Rockbox website as a digital version of my imaginary Uncle's cluttered basement and of myself as a detective from a 1950s pulp novel trying to piece together all the clues. (Minus all the sassy dames).
blueskip: I hope there's no hard feelings, I know how frustrating it can be to manuevre this mountain of ever-evolving information. I think the key is to move very slowly, watch your step, and of course fix any mistakes you come across along the way (at least that way you don't feel like you're part of the problem).
blueskip:
--- Quote ---Why (instead of getting increasingly short tempered and inflammatory),...
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Two days three hours each, after working 8 hours and driving 3.5 hours to work and trying diligently to straighten this out only to come to a dead end and getting a comment like this....
--- Quote ---There is no mention of the word "base" there, and in any case the term "base folder" that you use is one you've just invented - it has no definition in computing.
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if you still have patience, you're a better man than me. I think we can all agree "base" is the term that was used now.
I didn't make it up.
I think the right way to word the wikki would be to say "the .bmp file cannot be more than one directory above the .mp3 file or rockbox will not find it."
Unless I'm mistaken that is how this works.
My .mp3 files are in iPod_Control\Music\artist\album\ and my .bmp files were in the Music folder so if I understand correctly everything that has been said the wikki is still misleading even after the change if users are not told the .mp3 files cannot be more than one subdirectory down from the \Music folder.
That said...
I cannot put the .bmp files into the \Music file unless manually move the contents of ~1500 files and delete the artist folders. So I have exactly the setup described earlier as working perfectly:
Music\artist\album\.mp3 + .bmp
There's only one glitch. I don't have album art in many of these files because for whatever reason they didn't export. The art is there embedded however whether it was exported or not.
So what program will ignore the embedded album art and view the non embedded art to fix this? (that's confusing even to me)
soap:
--- Quote from: blueskip on January 16, 2008, 06:59:11 PM ---My .mp3 files are in iPod_Control\Music\artist\album\
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That is not the normal iTunes/iPod structure, is it?
--- Quote from: blueskip on January 16, 2008, 06:59:11 PM ---and my .bmp files were in the Music folder so if I understand correctly everything that has been said the wikki is still misleading even after the change if users are not told the .mp3 files cannot be more than one subdirectory down from the \Music folder.
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The wiki clearly states, after my editing, (the change you are referring to)
--- Quote from: wiki ---NOTE: This method does NOT work if your music directory structure is more than two folders deep.
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Your structure is more than two folders deep.
Album=1, Artist=2, Music=3
--- Quote from: wiki ---...It was written assuming you were using the iTunes database directory structure.
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You are apparently not.
--- Quote from: blueskip on January 16, 2008, 06:59:11 PM ---So I have exactly the setup described earlier as working perfectly:
Music\artist\album\.mp3 + .bmp
There's only one glitch. I don't have album art in many of these files because for whatever reason they didn't export. The art is there embedded however whether it was exported or not.
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Use any of the programs listed in the wiki, or any of the other programs available to download album art. Most scan the album tags of songs on a folder by folder basis, present you with what the program determines to be the proper album cover, and then allows you to save it (typically as one of the common names, such as folder.jpg).
Now you have a folder.jpg in each and every album folder. Then use the scripted conversion routines mentioned in the wiki and earlier in this thread (IIRC) to convert and rename the files in place. No manual moving, no manual renaming.
Correct me where I am wrong.
blueskip:
Just forget it.
I'll write an entry if necessary sometime this week that will work for ANY structure being used less I am mistaken. No bought software all freeware. It took me long enough but I finally figured it out on my own.
I orginally was using apple file structure. I'm not anymore. So yes you are correct about that.
I will also explain where to get software for less than $20 to convert apples file structure into a normal format ready for drag'n'drop. I don't know of freeware that will do it - yet. I'll look into that more before I write it.
I'm almost certain this method will work for any file structure in use.
Thanks to everyone.
soap:
--- Quote from: blueskip on January 16, 2008, 08:00:25 PM ---I will also explain where to get software for less than $20 to convert apples file structure into a normal format ready for drag'n'drop. I don't know of freeware that will do it - yet.
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Foobar2000 for Windows, and most every other free tagging program can rename files based upon their tags.
Files in the iTunes directory structure have tags.
Most taggers allow you to rename them in complex ways, including the creation of directories and subdirectories based upon the music's metadata tags.
Most all the free iTunes replacement software packages can also do this (create a "normal" directory from the iTunes database):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_iPod_Managers
--- Quote ---I'll write an entry if necessary sometime this week that will work for ANY structure being used less I am mistaken. No bought software all freeware. It took me long enough but I finally figured it out on my own.
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See the "Rockbox art converter script" just added to the wiki by Frederic Hoffmann. http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/AlbumArt#Format_conversion.
A free and extremely easy looking way to batch convert folder.jpgs into cover.bmps.
Should work with any directory structure (once you have the album art as files).
Want album art as files?
See http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=29876 for one of literally dozens of free programs to download album art, for free.
None of these tools cost money - all of these tools are just one free example in each category. I'm willing to bet my bottom dollar there are also free tools (in most cases superior to pay tools) for Mac and for the extraction of embedded album art into folder.jpgs.
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