Album Art Patch????

[soap]

ok so where would i apply the patch for album art in my rockbox file or in my music files??

Neither.
Many people, when they hear the word "patch" think of the warez/cracks scene where binary files are patched (modified) to change the binary file's behavior.

With a project like Rockbox, the goal is every so slightly different.  
A binary patch is near worthless because it doesn't update the underlying source code, therefore it would have to be reapplied (if not recreated) every time a new build is created.  If you'll notice the front page or "current build" page, new build come many times a day.

What my long-winded intro is trying to get at is that fact that the AlbumArt patch is a source code patch.  It is a cute little text file which you would apply to the source code, changing some lines while inserting others.  Because it is a source code (not binary file) patch you will need to download (or create) a "build environment" - a set of tools to download, manage, and compile the Rockbox source code.

There are three different Rockbox supported build environments available from this website (cygwin, VMware, and coLinux), and they are well documented in the wiki http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DocsIndex#For_Developers.

[chadillacthrills]

haha well dang, i think i should just give up on album art work, although i am huge fan of it..... but i am no where near good enough at coding and all to write all of that in to get a lil bitmap to show up and show me the cover of the album, but thank you so much for your help....i wish i understood all of this more, if i had more time to sit and just read and interpret and all i am sure i would... unless you know of a simple way of explaining it ha, which i doubt is possible.

thanks so much again

chad

[bascule]

Chad, I'm of a mind to lock this thread as you are patently not paying attention and/or not reading the suggestions.

You don't want to patch? Fine. You have already stated that you are running  a custom build...

..... and i have jclicks build and theme package directly from his website.....

... so you do not need to apply a patch.

All you probably need to do is extract the album art from the files as per this post:

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=7052.0

However, I'm not sure because you never say what you have done.

Your responses are not allowing anyone to help you because you are not explaining what problems you have experienced. Please post again if you have any specific questions.

[chadillacthrills]

thats what i need to do, exactly is extract the album artwork..... and i have been reading the forums about how you are supposed to tag this and tag that, but thats what i am unsure about is where to put the tags, either in my rockbox folder on my ipod somewhere or in my music files.  But i will go read that post and see what that does then get back to you and let you know whats going on.... And yes i installed rockbox with the supported bootloader and daily build, then overwrote that with jclicks build and theme package, it said all patches applied, so yes extracting is what i need to do i guess, i am sorry for being so sparatic... thanks and let see how it works

chad

[GodEater]

You're not extracting tags, you're extracting the album art.

[chadillacthrills]

well i tried extracting exactly as that thread told me too and it only extracts one jpeg from all 3,000 of my songs, it says that all other jpegs are duplicated, so i am lost on that one.

[bascule]

I suspect that the extract script is trying the name them all the same, which obviously won't work in a single folder.

Saying that, I have no idea what to expect that it does, so you may just have to play around with some settings, or perhaps PM ryan2632 (link) directly