Posting this in 'General Audio' because it's not really about AAC or MP4 audio, but more about software and how it handles the files. Move this if you think it's better suited to the MP4 section.
I guess the title says it all. When I add album art to my AAC files produced by Nero, is iTunes modifying the file in a standards / stream compliant way? I know that Nero says their files 'support' album art, but I don't really trust iTunes to add it properly, and I've been unable to find any material on how it does the task.
Full Version: Nero AAC + Album Art by iTunes Valid?
QUOTE (dpaint4 @ Jul 14 2006, 13:06) 
Posting this in 'General Audio' because it's not really about AAC or MP4 audio, but more about software and how it handles the files. Move this if you think it's better suited to the MP4 section.
I guess the title says it all. When I add album art to my AAC files produced by Nero, is iTunes modifying the file in a standards / stream compliant way? I know that Nero says their files 'support' album art, but I don't really trust iTunes to add it properly, and I've been unable to find any material on how it does the task.
I guess the title says it all. When I add album art to my AAC files produced by Nero, is iTunes modifying the file in a standards / stream compliant way? I know that Nero says their files 'support' album art, but I don't really trust iTunes to add it properly, and I've been unable to find any material on how it does the task.
Well, neroAacTag.exe can read an iTunes art tag and vice versa, so i assume they use the same meta atom. All it does to my knowledge is write the raw image bitstream into the tag, so there isn't much they could do differently besides using a different atom. (an mp4 meta atom is like an id3v2 tag field)
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