On Sun, 2004-19-09 at 14:50 -0400, Charles Schmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 20:25 +0200, Fredrik Noring wrote:
> > Hi Charles
> >
> > > I wasn't even aware you could store them in the id3 tag. Seems like a
> > > waste of space to store the image in every mp3 for an album, you know?
> > > Lets say you've got 22 songs on the disc, thats 21 copies of the image
> > > too many, imho.
> >
> > Well, a typical album cover can be fitted within 50 kb. That's about
> > 2-3 % of a typical mp3 file. Going from 128 kbit/s to 192 kbit/s on the
> > other hand requires 50 % extra space. :)
>
> True true.
>
> > The big advantage with ID3 is of course that everything about the song
> > is contained within the file. So managing moving/copying files is
> > simplified. In any case, "cover.jpg" pictures in the directory can be
> > done while supporting ID3 pictures as well.
> >
> > As for a strategy for finding the proper album cover, I think Rhythmbox
> > first should search all album songs for picture type $03 ("Cover
> > front"), then $00 ("Other", this is what iTunes uses I believe). Other
> > types such as $02 might apply too. The details can be found here:
>
> Does anyone (off chance) know the ogg comment equivalent? What about
> the other media formats that RB supports (or, rather, gstreamer does),
> do they have this functionality as well?
>
> > http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/id3/id3v2.3.0.html#sec4.15
> >
> > The result of this search strategy should perhaps be stored in the
> > Rhythmbox database. The actual images need probably not be stored in the
> > database as they might require quite a lot of space. If you want to save
> > space: only one song/album need a ID3 picture because Rhythmbox can only
> > use one picture anyway.
>
> I dunno. Then RB would have to load the id3 tag and parse it on start
> up. Seems to me it should be stored/cached somewhere. Perhaps not in
> the DB (although, why not?) but perhaps it could be written out to a
> file and the path to that file stored in the db? I dunno.
>
> > > The cover.jpg way seems a lot more economical (and easier, since you
> > > don't need a tag editor).
> >
> > Doesn't Rhythmbox sort of already require ID3-tags? :)
>
> No, I meant like adding them after the fact now. Like, all my music has
> is tagged, and any new music is tagged either automatically when its
> ripped or I do it on the command line. Retagging some 5000 songs is a
> bit daunting ;)
That is where tag-writing is good. Just drag and drop the images onto
the files (or the album name in the browser) and rhythmbox does the work
for you.
Or rhythmbox can find the images from amazon (like muine does) and drop
them in the files automatically.
ahh ... dreams... :)
--
Stephen Depooter
<sbdep woot net>
<sbdepoot uwaterloo ca>
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