Cannot get Album Art on Rockbox Ipod Video

[Scott123]

   I can't get any album art onto a wps.  I used blackgrass, the one with a grass background and is album art enabled.  Do I have to put the album art in a special folder in my .rockbox directory?
I am still kinda new at rockbox.

[Llorean]

The official Rockbox build does not have Album Art support. You'll need to use one of the unsupported builds that includes album art, and ask in the thread specific to that build for help with getting it working.

[Yotto]

Album art is not supported in the official builds.  Several of the unofficial builds support it, check out that area of the forums.

I wouldn't recommend using an unofficial build because as a new user, you're going to have questions and you should use the official build until you are more familiar with the software.

[tdtooke]

With the album art patch you can view album art.  You need to put your .bmp cover art in the parent directory of the song/album you want that art for.  You also need to either have your .bmp's the appropriate size, or use a wps with bmp resizing.  The wiki gives detailed instructions on all of this.

[Scott123]

  Ok, I get it now.  I'm just going to stay with the official build right now and later I might switch.  What are the cons of the Unofficial builds? Or is it just an add-on to the official builds?

[bluesbeat]

Is it ever likely that Rockbox will support jpg album art in the official build?
ie if the jpg is embedded in the file. Seems logical to me, but I don't know the complexities involved.
thanks.

[lights0ut]

Is it ever likely that Rockbox will support jpg album art in the official build?
ie if the jpg is embedded in the file. Seems logical to me, but I don't know the complexities involved.
thanks.

Hey bluesbeat,

I don't think rockbox will support embedded jpegs, however there is work being done to allow for embedded bitmaps (has to do with metadata on buffer).
Anyway jpegs probably wont be supported for 2 reasons:

1.they're compressed meaning that the CPU will need to uncompress them meaning that takes
precious power away from other important things like decoding audio which is essential while
album art especially compressed album art is not an essential feature

2.while jpegs do save space, our players all have large capacity when we're talking about pictures. A 100x100 bitmap is maybe 200K (some are 10K) so using jpegs is not that big of a deal.

[Yotto]

 Ok, I get it now.  I'm just going to stay with the official build right now and later I might switch.  What are the cons of the Unofficial builds? Or is it just an add-on to the official builds?

1) You are not allowed to ask for help in the forums.  This is the biggest reason, and why I suggested you stay away from them for now.  If, every time you want to ask why something didn't work the way you expected it or you're having trouble finding something in the manual, you ask a question and Llorean asks "What build are you using" you're going to either get that embarrassed feeling up the back of your neck or get quickly sick of loading and reloading builds all the time.  You may ask "Well, I have to load the newest build anyway to report it, so what's the big deal?" and the big deal is that the new build you're doing isn't just an improved version of what you were on, it's a totally different thing with different button responses, ways to display data, backlight functions, you name it.  Trust me, it causes problems
2) The unofficial builds don't match the manual. Your build may not do what you expect when you hit a button that the manual says takes you to, say, the Menu.
3) The unofficial builds are older than the current build.  Unless an unofficial build has been released THAT DAY, it's old.

All that said, there's nothing *wrong* with using an unofficial build.  I personally load whichever of EvilG's or Senab's builds is the newest, because I have grown very accustomed  to album art and a less-bright screen.  But if I find a bug, I load the newest version before I report anything.  And it's a pain

[Scott123]

 Â    Ok, what if I do choose to load an unofficial build and it is a build that can support album art.  How do I get the album art working?  I have just downloaded the build that comes with the jClix themes that support album art.

[lights0ut]

Hey Scott123,
you can't ask about unsupported builds in the forums, unless you ask about it in the specific thread for that build in the unsupported builds section (i.e. all questions about the jbuild go under the jbuild thread under the unsupported builds forum) The only problem is that you will find less help doing this. It is not a problem really because there is enough documentation in the wiki / provided by the authors of these builds.

to get Album Art working try reading this page on album art in the wiki.

the jbuild includes the BMP resize patch so you can use any size AA you want.

[Scott123]

  Oh...  I didn't know there even was a Unsupported forum...  Well, I still am quite new at Rockbox.  

Anyway, off topic, I just want to know if the jbuild is better than senab's or the evilg builds?

[lights0ut]

 Oh...  I didn't know there even was a Unsupported forum...  Well, I still am quite new at Rockbox.  

Anyway, off topic, I just want to know if the jbuild is better than senab's or the evilg builds?

I'll give you one-up on both Scott , I've just finished compiling my new Fusion build, as the name implies it the combination of my evilG build with the jbuild (essentially) click the link on my signature for all the details.

[Scott123]

   Dang! That is SWEET! I am downloading the build right now.  Thanks a bunch evilg.  A bunch and a bunch and a bunch and a bunch.  

I am serious, you really deserve that many bunches. For real man.!