What ways are there to store album art for an MP3? iTunes can embed album art into each MP3 file individually, but this seems horribly inefficient since it uses up an extra 300kb or so of space per track.
The only other way I could think of doing it would be to have the album art in the folder of the album to which it belongs. Is this any kind of a standard? And are the foobar2000 components that can display album artwork stored like that?
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The iTunes behave is the more standard-compliant behave around. Embedding cover insde the mp3s assure you that u will view it on every player around without plugins, hacks or other shits. Embending cover inside the mp3s will assure you that the covers will always travel with the songs they refer tho.
Come on, 300kb (or less, it depends by the cover size) for track.. Hard Disks are cheap nowadays
You can earn space in other ways if you really want to
I suggest u to embed at least 200x200 covers, for decent quality. Don't use 345x740-like covers, it's a wrong approach if you want to have a visually-appealing and coherent collection (use always Y pixel x Y pixel images, such as 200x200, 300x300, 400x400 etc).
Come on, 300kb (or less, it depends by the cover size) for track.. Hard Disks are cheap nowadays
You can earn space in other ways if you really want to I suggest u to embed at least 200x200 covers, for decent quality. Don't use 345x740-like covers, it's a wrong approach if you want to have a visually-appealing and coherent collection (use always Y pixel x Y pixel images, such as 200x200, 300x300, 400x400 etc).
As far as I'm aware rockbox won't display embedded album art. You have to have a separate folder with images as bitmaps which is slightly annoying. I tend to go with 500x500 images just so they look nice big and also scale down well.
After installing the new foobar version which has some nice album-art-displaying capabilities, I have found my solution, which is to put the jpegs in the album folder, rename them to "front", and just have foobar display them.
I just rar them up and name them as artist - album.cbr. I prefer my scans at 300 - 600dpi so I'm not too concerned about any player finding them as it would probably choke anyway, I have some album art scans that are well over 100MB. If I want to view the art I click on the .cbr file and it opens up in Comix.
For better or for worse, Windows Media Player's convention of using "folder.jpg" is a very popular way of storing the art.
I continue to use the convention even though I'm now using linux, because it seems to be the "lowest common denominator" format that every player can recognize.
I continue to use the convention even though I'm now using linux, because it seems to be the "lowest common denominator" format that every player can recognize.
I prefer to have a separate folder for cover art and have nothing but audio files in my Music directory. Sonata (an mpd client) uses this approach, the images are named artist-album.jpg
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