Re: Embedding artwork in existing flac audio library

Kyle;171210 Wrote: 
> But what can I do that I can't do with the current structure of one
> album art file in the album folder?

With respect to SlimServer I can't think of any advantages. In fact, a
number of disadvantages.  It makes it a lot more work to change a cover
image for an album.  And makes it a lot tougher to simply view the
covers.

A good friend of mine often rips disks and includes high-res scans of
_all_ the artwork in the package.  This might be as many as a dozen
large images from a booklet, plus scans of the CD and jewel box tray
insert.  The only sane way to keep that artwork is in jpg files, maybe
all of them in a zip or rar file to reduce clutter.  You certainly
wouldn't want to embed 20MB of graphics in each music file.

When I rip a disk I often find the best image I can find, but it's not
always very good.  Some time later I'll go looking for a replacement
image and will find a much better one.  I did this just yesterday -
When I ripped Santana's "Lotus" all I could find was an image that was
200x160 pixels.  In SlimServer's gallery view this looks like hell,
since square (or neary square) covers are the norm.  So yesterday I did
another search and found a beutiful 300x300 pixel image.  Plonked it in
the album folder and was done.  No need to break out a tagger or other
software to rewrite the files and embed a new image.


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JJZolx

Jim
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