Embedded Album Art with WavPack Options

[fearan]

I was wondering if there was a way to store album art in Wavpack files, so that a software audio player could read it and display it. If this is possible, what audio players support it, and how can it be done?
Thanks

[navin]

I was wondering if there was a way to store album art in Wavpack files, so that a software audio player could read it and display it. If this is possible, what audio players support it, and how can it be done?
Thanks

but how to display this natively from wv files while playing in the popular players fb2k/winamp

Sorry to rake up an old topic but I tried searching the forum and this is the thread most closely related to this topic I could find.

Many years ago (Wavpack 4.2) I ripped my CDs to Wavpack and MP3 using WACK, EAC, LAME and WavPACK. I did not realise then that the Wavpack and MP3 files I was creating did not have album (cover) art. I have about 2000 CDs ripped using the following Wavpack settings. Synthetic Soul made these


EXEPATH=D:\lame-3.96.1\lame.exe
ARGUMENTS=--preset extreme --id3v2-only --pad-id3v2 --ignore-tag-errors --scale %x --ta "%a" --tl "%g" --tn "%n" --tt "%t" --ty "%y" --tg "%m" %s %d
FILEPATH=D:\mp3\%a\%g\%n - %t
EXTENSION=.mp3
FILETYPE=1
APPLYREPLAYGAIN=false ;;;;;;;;;; mp3gain stores it's information in APEv2 tags.
REPLAYGAINEXEPATH= ;;;;;;;;;; Using mp3gain with ID3 tags will cause the tags
REPLAYGAINARGUMENTS= ;;;;;;;;;; to disappear on some players (ie, Foobar).

[WAVPACK]
EXEPATH=D:\wavpack-4.2\wavpack\wavpack.exe
ARGUMENTS=-hm -w "Artist=%a" -w "Album=%g" -w "Track=%n" -w "Title=%t" -w "Year=%y" -w "Genre=%m" %s %d
FILEPATH=G:\wav\%a\%g\%n - %t
EXTENSION=.wv
FILETYPE=1
APPLYREPLAYGAIN=false
REPLAYGAINEXEPATH=
REPLAYGAINARGUMENTS=

I have used iTunes to embed album (cover) art in my MP3 files but how do I embedd album art in my Wavpack files.

I have the album cover art in my "D:\MP3\Artist\Album" folders and in foobar I can display this album art for my Wavpack files by using this path in the Preferences (Columns UI). I wish I could use the same album cover art (from my D:\MP3\Artist\Album folders) and embedd the same into my Wavpack files in thier "G:\WAV\Artist\Album" foldes.

[bryant]

I have used iTunes to embed album (cover) art in my MP3 files but how do I embedd album art in my Wavpack files.

Unfortunately, I would have no idea how to do that automatically. The WavPack command-line tools can't add the cover art to an existing file (much less do batch operations).

However, a 3rd party tagger like Mp3tag would certainly work to copy the art work, but you would have to try it to see if it could do this in a batch operation (otherwise it would take quite a while with 2000 albums). There are some command-line tagging programs that can do batch operations (like Synthetic Soul's Tag), but I don't think it handles cover art.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful!

David

[navin]

The WavPack command-line tools can't add the cover art to an existing file (much less do batch operations).

However, a 3rd party tagger like Mp3tag would certainly work to copy the art work, but you would have to try it to see if it could do this in a batch operation (otherwise it would take quite a while with 2000 albums).

I did try Mp3Tag. It is terribly combersome.

Currently I only use Wavpack on my PC Using Foobar) but I envision a day when my PS3 and ipods will be able to natively read Wavpack files and would love to then have my Wavpack files taggged with album art so that they art shows on the Ipod/TV screen or PSP controller. So far there is only one car Hu I know of that reads lossless natively (Pioneer's DEX-P99RS). Do you know of any others? Wavpack in my car would be a boon (with or without the album art).

This post has been edited by navin: Jul 26 2010, 09:05