Album Art iPod- How to-Detailed explanation

[podpodpod]

Hey

Before some moderator comes along and qoutes straight outta the rockbox website, I have read the Album Art section.

I do not understand it well

If i just want a album cover for all songs inside a folder, how would I do that?

I know that i need to convert it, I just need to know what to put the filename as etc.


Thanks

[ColdSphinx]

You need a costombuild to use albumart. So this isn't the right place to ask.

[Febs]

Before some moderator comes along and qoutes straight outta the rockbox website, I have read the Album Art section.

What exactly is it that is giving you trouble?  The AlbumArt wiki page pretty much describes exactly what you need to do.

[mc_365]

You will need to aquire a build of rockbox with album art patch.
Get one of Evils build or senbs from the  unsupported builds forum.
Get a WPS with album art support.
Get that build and the WPS working on your iPod.
Get the chosen builds requirements for the cover art pixel size.
You need to have your music in file tree structure stored on your iPod.
This means drag and drop your sorted music to the ipod.
Within each album folder you should have the cover art converted to a .bmp type file called cover.bmp  
The size of this file should be 85 X 85; atleast that is the size supported by my build some are 100 X 100.

If you do all of this correctly, when you select a song to play the now playing screen will show the cover.bmp picture.

[Billy4202]

How would you go about organizing the music in the iPod control folder into a tree structure?  Do you have to use something other than iTunes to put your music on there?  I currently still do that, while running Rockbox, but when I opened my iPod control folder, everything's in folders like F1 to F40 with random music files stuck in there.  Everything's a complete mess...could I even do album art at this point, or am I screwed?

Thanks

[ryran]

Yes you could still do it.
You'll need to use a better tagging program, like Foobar2000.

Instructions with Foobar:
Drag the control folder onto foobar, highlight everything and right-click > File Operations > Move, Rename or Copy Files.
Make sure rename or move files is selected in the first box if you're done using iTunes..otherwise you should probably change that to copy.
You'll need to edit the Output file name format box to something of your liking (don't remember what defaults are there when you first install fb2k).. I use artist / album / nn. title, possible code for which would be:

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$if2(%album artist%,unknown artist)/$if2(%album%,unknown album)/$if(%multiitem%,$if(%discnumber%,Disc %discnumber%,Image),[[%disc%-]%tracknumber%. ]%title%)

Pick an output directory and then press run.

[mc_365]

How would you go about organizing the music in the iPod control folder into a tree structure?  Do you have to use something other than iTunes to put your music on there?  I currently still do that, while running Rockbox, but when I opened my iPod control folder, everything's in folders like F1 to F40 with random music files stuck in there.  Everything's a complete mess...could I even do album art at this point, or am I screwed?

Thanks

To use rockbox with album art you will have to abandon iTunes Totally and commit fully to rockbox and drag and drop.

Notice my post above.

"This means drag and drop your sorted music to the ipod".

You need to learn how to use any of the 100s of tagging and sorting apps to organise your music file in some logical manner.

My take on it is...
If you've got alot of random songs it's probably not worth it and you probably don't care that much about it to go through this all.  Really do you stare at your iPod why listening to it?

On the other hand myself,  I mostly rip complete albums and have never used iTunes.
My rips are stored in individual folders in a manner as such...

Artist/Album/cdartist-tracknumber-songtitle.flac

Suggest for tagging and organising mp3tag, you can veiw all music in a folder and subfolder, this will tag and re-name your files based on taggs or vice versa.  When you've finnished tagging and naming you can then move the files to thier apropriate folders.

Then you need to get the cover art or extract it from the current files.
Resize the art as appropriate for your wps and place it in the folders this can be done with various software.

[tdtooke]

In my humble opinion it's actually easier to set up album art when using iTunes.  Then all you have to do is put your artwork in the Music directory since that's the parent of all those fthis, fthat folders.  Also if you're having alotta tagging issues, this is gonna sound unkind to some, but you really need to start actually buying your music more.  If you bought it from any reputable online store it is tagged correctly and pretty much every decent application for ripping something will tag it for you so..

[Chronon]

Yes, you can do it while maintaining iTunes' obfuscated file structure.  As tdtooke says you just put all of the album art into the Music folder and be sure to name each one by the appropriate "album name".bmp  

Unfortunately, some album names contain characters that are illegal according to FAT32 (e.g. /,\,:,!, etc.).  The only way to get these to display album art (while maintaining iTunes' structure) is to change the tags for that music so that the album name does not contain those characters.  

[mamboman]

it seems that there's no album art custom build for the 60/80gb ipods. anyone here have built it?

[mc_365]

Questions:

Does cover art no longer need to be "cover.bmp"

My response was bassed on that assumption.


If you leave the music in the itunes folder on the iPod, do you not have multiple songs, from multiple artist, from multiple albums, in each folder?

This I thought would lead to multiple cover bmp within the same folder? if you just extract the art from existing files.

How will rockbox choose the correct art to display if you maintain the apple folder structure?

[bascule]

The same way it chooses it any other time...

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/AlbumArt#Where_to_put_the_pictures

[tdtooke]

As far as the filenames with bmps go you could try Album Art Downloader.  It named my Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? artwork as Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer_ and it worked.  I tried manually naming it with that underscore and it didn't work, but for some odd reason when album art downloader does it, it does.  Go figure..