Re: [Banshee-List] Cover art

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew conkling gmail com>]

On 12/21/06, Josiah Ritchie <josiah ritchie gmail com> wrote:
> On 12/20/06, Andrew Conkling <andrew conkling gmail com> wrote:
> > Seriously, my opinion is that your best bet would be to tag your music
> > with MusicBrainz when possible, and if not, save the local files. IIRC
> > you can save the files as cover.[jpg,png,etc] in the same directory
> > and they will be picked up; hopefully someone else can confirm that.
> > But MusicBrainz takes care of mine. :)
>
> I started a page on the wiki abouth this issue. Are you sure you can
> use any extension on the cover art in the directory or is it limited
> to a few select ones? I'd like to be accurate if I put it on the wiki.

Yeah, I'm not sure about the extensions method, because all my files
are tagged with MusicBrainz.

> When you say tag your music using MusicBrainz do you simply mean let
> the metadata plugin handle it? It would be cool if the metadata plugin
> also reported back info on tracks/albums it didn't find information on
> at MusicBrainz.

No, I use MBz's Picard program. Works pretty well. I tried the
metadata plugin once and ruined a lot of my files.

Where's this wiki page?