On Sun, 2004-19-09 at 13:57 -0400, Charles Schmidt wrote: > On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 19:45 +0200, Fredrik Noring wrote: > > > It should/could also do it the muine way with a cover.[jpg/png/gif] in > > > the same directory as the mp3 (perhaps this is a "standard" or > > > something?) It could also (stealing a page from muine's book) fetch the > > > image from amazon or allmusic or something (and cache it for later use, > > > of course). > > > > I've made a patch to support ID3-tag pictures in EasyTAG GTK2.4-pre2. > > Perhaps you will find it useful: > > > > http://noring.nocrew.org/easytag/easytag-0.31_gtk2.4_pre2-cover-art1.patch > > > > A neat thing about ID3 pictures is that several types are supported. So > > clicking on "Properties" on a song could bring up a window showing front > > and back cover pictures, leaflet pictures, artist pictures, pictures > > during recording/performance along with comments etc. > > 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). > I know iTunes uses the image in the tag format. But if you think about it, it isn't a big deal since you usually use a fairly small image anyways. It doesn't need to have the resolution of a desktop wallpaper. > > Fredrik > -- Stephen Depooter <sbdep woot net> <sbdepoot uwaterloo ca>
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