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2009-12-27 , 21:09
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#41
Originally Posted by Viipottaja View Post
AAARRRRGGHH! I am going nuts and I am a noob. I can see some cover art pictures in the audio file folder of an album though the file manager. BUT, the Media Player does not recognize/show the pics. I've tried cover.jpg, cover.jpeg, cover.png - none of them work. What else could it be?

ps. I did not bother to restart the whole device after each change of extension. Should I?
Try moving the files away and back, per my original post:

Originally Posted by jkq
Note that if the music has already been indexed by the N900's tracker, you probably need to move the directory to somewhere that tracker does not index (I believe the "tmp" directory should work), then move it back. You may also need to erase the tracker database before moving it back (type "tracker-processes -r" from the terminal).
I think tracker doesn't update something when you add cover art to a directory that already exists.

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2009-12-27 , 22:46
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Tried that. Moved the pictures (one named cover.jpg, one cover.png) to TMP and back. Nada. Then moved the whole artist/band folder to TMP and back. Nada. ARRRGH, 2.0.
 
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here is a quick guide having the right cover art album on yout N900... (this is what i do. i hope this works for you too...)
  • I have a folder of Daughtry's album...


    I download a cover art of the album... ( google images )


    Download MP3TAG... install... and run the program. Click the folder with the green arrow and navigate to the folder where the files are. In my case the Daughtry album.


    Select all the songs (ctrl+A) and drag the album cover on the cover art section. Click SAVE.


    Thats it! Now put the songs or the whole folder on your N900. FireUp the media player and u got yourself a Nice coverArt on your MP3's.



    +++ if ur cover art doesn't show up, Open up the terminal and refresh the tracker as a USER not as ROOT.
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2009-12-27 , 23:17
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Personally I don't like having cover art embedded in files. A compilation album of 70 tracks (like I am listening to right now) would replicate the cover art multiple times, which is why I prefer the cover.jpg solution. You can set MP3TAG to download cover art with the filename cover.jpg and put it in the audio files' folders. If, for example, it's a 4 CD set, it should put the same cover in each folder, assuming you have selected at least one track from each folder.

PS. I've embedded cover art in the past and made a mistake with a big scan of an album cover that added 5mb to each file, needlessly inflating files. Of course you can do it with smaller image files if you prefer (as described above).
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2009-12-27 , 23:25
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#45
Originally Posted by Viipottaja View Post
Tried that. Moved the pictures (one named cover.jpg, one cover.png) to TMP and back. Nada. Then moved the whole artist/band folder to TMP and back. Nada. ARRRGH, 2.0.
You need to move the whole folder containing the songs as well, not just the cover.jpg file.
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2009-12-27 , 23:39
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#46
Originally Posted by Thor View Post
Personally I don't like having cover art embedded in files. A compilation album of 70 tracks (like I am listening to right now) would replicate the cover art multiple times, which is why I prefer the cover.jpg solution. You can set MP3TAG to download cover art with the filename cover.jpg and put it in the audio files' folders. If, for example, it's a 4 CD set, it should put the same cover in each folder, assuming you have selected at least one track from each folder.

PS. I've embedded cover art in the past and made a mistake with a big scan of an album cover that added 5mb to each file, needlessly inflating files. Of course you can do it with smaller image files if you prefer (as described above).
You might want to try out Pycage's Mediabox then. It uses cover.jpg in a folder for its album art. It's also folder based rather then relying on tracker.
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2009-12-27 , 23:56
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Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
You might want to try out Pycage's Mediabox then. It uses cover.jpg in a folder for its album art. It's also folder based rather then relying on tracker.
will this work on OGG files as well? cos i really like ogg coz of the small file size so i ca move almost all of my media on my device.
 
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2009-12-28 , 00:24
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Originally Posted by Thor View Post
You need to move the whole folder containing the songs as well, not just the cover.jpg file.
I did. I said:

"Tried that. Moved the pictures (one named cover.jpg, one cover.png) to TMP and back. Nada. Then moved the whole artist/band folder to TMP and back. Nada. ARRRGH, 2.0."

Iceman600, thanks, I'll try that at some point. Your last sentence is pure gibberish/Greek to me though.. as I said I'm a noob.
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2009-12-28 , 02:08
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Originally Posted by Viipottaja View Post
I did. I said:

"Tried that. Moved the pictures (one named cover.jpg, one cover.png) to TMP and back. Nada. Then moved the whole artist/band folder to TMP and back. Nada. ARRRGH, 2.0."

Iceman600, thanks, I'll try that at some point. Your last sentence is pure gibberish/Greek to me though.. as I said I'm a noob.
What about moving the folder (songs+cover) to tmp, resetting the tracker database (run "tracker-processes -r" as USER from the terminal), then moving it back?

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Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
You might want to try out Pycage's Mediabox then. It uses cover.jpg in a folder for its album art. It's also folder based rather then relying on tracker.
Mediabox (I have 2009.11.1 from -devel, is there newer?) for N900 doesn't seem completely functional yet... it didn't look like it was saving the configuration, and there's a box in the corner saying that it's beta software.

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