On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:35 PM, funkstar <funkstar.41aq5z1257622...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > > Newfiestang50;482785 Wrote: >> But what I meant to say is that a particular song when viewed using >> iTunes displays the album art fine but when I go out to the same MP3 in >> my music folder on my C: drive the album art in not there. How do I get >> it to display in both places. >> >> I am concerned about this because it is taking me alot of time to get >> this sorted out and if I abandon iTunes for a better music store later I >> dont want to have to do this all over again. > Hmmm, perhaps iTunes keeps the artwork in its own database. I don't use > iTunes, I just assumed it would embed the artwork. I know Squeezebox > server can display iTunes artwork. Someone else is going to have to > clarify this point.
Yeah, iTunes keeps its artwork in a separate database on your machine, in a folder called "Album Artwork", which is a subfolder of the main iTunes folder that holds your main iTunes db. I think Squeezebox Server simply parses this db along with the regular db. The artwork can be extracted manually by right clicking the artwork, selecting "copy" and pasting it into an image editor or something. That's a lot of annoying work if you have a lot of artwork, but you can also extract the artwork with a script using the iTunes COM interface. Sonos, of all places, has a guide for embedding the art directly into your music that they at least claim is compatible with iTunes 9, but I haven't tried it. It's at https://sonos.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/sonos.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=688 In any event, the artwork is not locked away in iTunes forever, but it's definitely not as simple as just jpegs downloaded to a folder, which would be ideal. -Steve _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
