BBobley wrote:
Thanks everyone for info. Let me make sure I understand:
The MP3 standard allows the album art to be stored:
First, you have to realise that MP3 is one of the least standardized
"standards" in the 'net. It is much more ad-hoc than any sort of real
standard (such as Internet/IETF RFCs).
a) embedded inside the MP3 file
b) a pointer is embedded that points to the image file located
elsewhere in the filesystem
Are there pros and cons to these different methods? Anyone know of a
technical discussion of these different techniques?
The SlimServer also allows the album art to just be in the same disk
folder as the song files.
The obvious advantage of having a pointer to an external image file is
that you don't have to duplicate the art for all of the tunes in the
album. Most CDs have only cover, and typically have 10 or so tunes per CD.
The obvious advantage of having the image emb edded in the song file is
that when you move the file, transfer it to another device, etc. the
album cover moves too.
--
Pat
http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
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