Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Album covers

[William Free <erudite hacker gmail com>]

The storage of pictures should be left up to the user.  Some of you
like to have them in the files.  I personally don't because I have
alot of full albums and adding 2-3% to EVERY song in an album will use
up space on my player when I transfer them, and this space is precious
to me.  I'd rather only have the picture on my PC HD, and only have
one copy of it, instead of  10-20 copies per album.


On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 00:44:42 -0600, Thomas Lunde <tlunde gmail com> wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:29:47 +0100, Marc Pavot <m pavot laposte net> wrote:
> > Earlier, Thomas Lunde <tlunde gmail com> wrote:
> > >It would be wonderful it the code could also look in the MP3 files for
> > >art (even if it's not possible to save the art there with Rb due to
> > >amazon's licensing policy?).  All of my files are already tagged with
> > >art from iTunes, so it seems a waste of bandwidth and disk space to
> > >download the art again.
> > >
> > >
> > Yes, I could try to make it but which software can I use to add an art
> > in a MP3 file with Linux?
> 
> Sorry for the delay in response.
> 
> I found a number of packages which claimed to add cover art to ID3
> tags, but only a small number worked at all and only one (that I've
> found so far) seems to do this in a way which is mutually compatible
> with iTunes.  The ID3 spec seems pretty hairy.  iTunes appears to
> prefer to write version 2.2 tags, but can understand others as well.
> EasyTag (at least in my build) seems to prefer to write version 2.3
> tags, but this does not appear to be a problem.
> 
> http://easytag.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I used the 1.99.3 version (self compiled, on ubuntu warty) and was
> able to tag files with info and pictures that iTunes could read.  It
> also could understand all of my tags in my files that I had previously
> tagged (both words and pictures) with iTunes.
> 
> If it would be helpful, I would be happy to provide sample files
> tagged with either or both iTunes and/or EasyTag.  For source
> material, I'd grab a CC-licensed song and use one of my own pictures,
> so there will not be any copyright problems.  Please let me know if
> that would help.
> 
> Thanks very much for considering this feature.
> thomas
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