Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Album Art

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Charles Schmidt wrote:

> 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.  The cover.jpg way seems a lot more economical (and
> easier, since you don't need a tag editor).

From the ID3v2 specification:

There is the possibility to put only a link to the image file by using 
the 'MIME type' "-->" and having a complete URL [URL] instead of picture 
data. The use of linked files should however be used sparingly since 
there is the risk of separation of files.

http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/id3/id3v2.3.0.html#sec4.15

So, although you may set a list of predefined file names to look for 
(cover.jpg, art.jpg, etc...), you should first check the APIC frame and 
look if there is an embedded image, or a link to it. That way, the user 
can specify the image's file name and location himself.