Re: [slim] Missing Album Art Root Causes

2008-11-21 Thread socistep
RonM;362056 Wrote: There was a time when I subscribed to the prevailing Microsoft is the evil empire dogma. With the whole iTunes/iPod suite, and the related DRM debacle, I've seen the light, or rather the dark. It's Apple that is the evil empire. I won't buy an iPod. I won't buy music

Re: [slim] Missing Album Art Root Causes

2008-11-21 Thread tedfroop
theres an itunes for linux? No, but if you care to and have an ipod made before the Classic you can probably run Rockbox. (www.rockbox.org) Plays flac, ogg, and all that and can be synced using your choice of Linux programs. Works great for me - one flac library, no messing about with

Re: [slim] Missing Album Art Root Causes

2008-11-20 Thread AndrewFG
MrSinatra;361695 Wrote: [smartass, i know] Glad you know :-) IMHO if you have have both a SqueezeBox and an iPod then your only common denominator is iTunes. Nah? -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG AndrewFG's Profile:

Re: [slim] Missing Album Art Root Causes

2008-11-20 Thread MrSinatra
i don't have an ipod, the wife has a zen tho. but what can itunes do with an ipod that say winamp can't? my understanding is that other apps can upload to ipods. does itunes have a feature other apps don't dupe? -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary)

Re: [slim] Missing Album Art Root Causes

2008-11-20 Thread Chip Hart
MrSinatra wrote: but what can itunes do with an ipod that say winamp can't? my understanding is that other apps can upload to ipods. does itunes have a feature other apps don't dupe? Yeah, sadly. At least, on the Linux side, it's the only way to interact with an

Re: [slim] Missing Album Art Root Causes

2008-11-20 Thread MrSinatra
theres an itunes for linux? winamp will do ipods. i'd have to think some linux music app could too. how about wine w/winamp? -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.3b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655

Re: [slim] Missing Album Art Root Causes

2008-11-20 Thread Chip Hart
MrSinatra wrote: theres an itunes for linux? There are a number of programs that will transfer music (+photos, video) to iPODS. In many ways, they are superior to iTunes for most Linux users, as you can imagine. But only Windows and the Mac will

Re: [slim] Missing Album Art Root Causes

2008-11-20 Thread RonM
There was a time when I subscribed to the prevailing Microsoft is the evil empire dogma. With the whole iTunes/iPod suite, and the related DRM debacle, I've seen the light, or rather the dark. It's Apple that is the evil empire. I won't buy an iPod. I won't buy music from Apple, except in the

[slim] Missing Album Art Root Causes

2008-11-19 Thread MikeekiM
Hi All, I know there are a lot of various threads on missing album art (on the SBR), but I haven't seen a consolidated thread to collect the various root causes... In short, what are the known causes for missing art work when the files are confirmed to have the album art meta-data included in

Re: [slim] Missing Album Art Root Causes

2008-11-19 Thread AndrewFG
MikeekiM;361576 Wrote: I have heard that downloaded iTunes album art in AAC files are one situation... Not quite... Actually the situation is that when iTunes downloads album art it does NOT store the graphic inside the respective music file, but instead stores the graphic in a

Re: [slim] Missing Album Art Root Causes

2008-11-19 Thread tedfroop
I found on my windows install back when I was using itunes there were about three places it kept the xml file with the links to the artwork (.itc files). The artwork can be extracted using this, http://sourceforge.net/projects/iaae I have not used this extractor but if it doesn't work just

Re: [slim] Missing Album Art Root Causes

2008-11-19 Thread andyg
You can also run SC 7.3 which automatically finds iTunes artwork. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55285