Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] another queue UI layout

[Thomas Lunde <tlunde gmail com>]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:34:10 +0200, Christophe Fergeau <teuf gnome org> wrote:
> Le lundi 28 mars 2005 à 09:26 -0600, Thomas Lunde a écrit :
> 
> > all of the new portable audio players with screens (both
> > the iPod and the WMA horde) recognize and will use embedded cover art.
> 
> The iPod photo won't use cover art embedded in files, it uses a separate
> thumbnail database containing the uncompressed and scaled covers. While
> this database can be generated from the data embedded in files, it can
> also be generated from any other image as long as the various database
> files are properly filled.

(Huh?  ...goes off and researches...  *red face*)
I apologize for providing bad information on the iPod photo.  I
personally only have an older model and have only interacted with the
new ones in a store (while it was attached to a Mac.)  Since iTunes
stores its art in the ID3 tags and those do get sync'd to the iPod, I
made a bad assumption.  Christophe:  do you know of any non-iTunes
software that will generate the thumbnail database?  Some googling
only turned up statements that there isn't (yet) any such.


It does appear that at least some portable music players _do_ pull the
art right out of the ID3 tags if it is present.  See, for example, the
second comment in this thread:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/145659
(talking about the Archos AV400)

thomas