Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question

2011-04-04 Thread edmondwolfman
So.as far as album art embedded in the flac, does it affect the sound at all. If the player is having to decode the flac and having to decode the art too does it make a differenc? To be honest I'm not even sure how the art is utilized when it is embedded. I guess I could make a couple of

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question

2011-04-02 Thread edmondwolfman
rgro;622241 Wrote: Embedded art works fine, but every once in a while it can cause a little problem. I recently downloaded an album from HDtracks that had embedded art in each track. Unfortunately the art was 1400 x 1400 (238kb) and the large size of the image caused SBS/Touch to have a

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question

2011-04-02 Thread rgro
Ah, but the question pertaining to this thread would be: did the files that caused the problem have embedded artwork larger than 500 X 500? If so, then it becomes a question of trading off any perceived SQ benefit in shifting the decoding to the server vs. having (or deleting) the large

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question

2011-04-02 Thread edmondwolfman
rgro;622754 Wrote: Ah, but the question pertaining to this thread would be: did the files that caused the problem have embedded artwork larger than 500 X 500? If so, then it becomes a question of trading off any perceived SQ benefit in shifting the decoding to the server vs. having (or

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question

2011-03-31 Thread edmondwolfman
Do you have your art as a jpg in the same folder as the music or have you embedded it into each file? I use MP3Tag and embed the album art into each flac and my artwork never disappears. I do run my server and have my music on my pc though. I had it on a synolgy NAS at first but that was just

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question

2011-03-31 Thread rgro
Embedded art works fine, but every once in a while it can cause a little problem. I recently downloaded an album from HDtracks that had embedded art in each track. Unfortunately the art was 1400 x 1400 (238kb) and the large size of the image caused SBS/Touch to have a big hairball. The result

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question

2011-03-31 Thread edmondwolfman
rgro;622241 Wrote: Embedded art works fine, but every once in a while it can cause a little problem. I recently downloaded an album from HDtracks that had embedded art in each track. Unfortunately the art was 1400 x 1400 (238kb) and the large size of the image caused SBS/Touch to have a

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question

2011-03-31 Thread Phil Leigh
edmondwolfman;622248 Wrote: I d'load from HDTracks all the time and haven't run into the problem you mentioned. Are you using the DAC in the touch? I'm using DACMagic. That doesn't mean I might not run into the same problem you did though. The DAC being used has nothing to do with/is

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question

2011-03-31 Thread tcutting
You indicate that you have the issues with the Web UI. I have had art issues in the Web UI which were caused by the web browser caching. Try clearing the cache in your web browser and see if that helps. (My symptoms were different however - I was getting jumbled artwork... wrong artwork

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question

2011-03-31 Thread edmondwolfman
rgro;622287 Wrote: I've only run into this issue once with HDtracks and that was just a few days ago (Sophisticated Lady album). But, if I ever get a file that won't play for no obvious reason, the embedded art is the first place I'll look to. Not sure, but I think this issue is an SBS

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question

2011-03-31 Thread edmondwolfman
As an afterthought, I purchased Sam Cooke Portrait of a legend. It stated that it was 88kHz but after I d'loaded and started playing I noticed it was just 44.1kHz. I randomly picked another song, I think it was Only Sixteen, and it was also 44.1kHz. After further investigation it turns out that 3

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question

2011-03-31 Thread rgro
Sorry, my bad. I downloaded two albums on the same daythe one that gave me problems was actually the other one...Philadelphia Orchestra/De Burgos---Schumann/Chausson/Ravel. edmondwolfman;622301 Wrote: I d'loaded that same album and I had no problems at all. My touch is connected via

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question

2011-03-31 Thread souwalker
edmondwolfman;622233 Wrote: Do you have your art as a jpg in the same folder as the music or have you embedded it into each file? I use MP3Tag and embed the album art into each flac and my artwork never disappears. I do run my server and have my music on my pc though. I had it on a

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question

2011-03-31 Thread rgro
That's the way I have them, too, on my VBAeach music file has a cover.jpg and folder.jpg. Apparently having the both of them covers all the bases souwalker;622397 Wrote: I have all my alburm art called covers.jpg in the same folder as the music. So it's worth while considering a

[SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question

2011-03-28 Thread souwalker
I have read some threads that may be same issue but I should not hijack ther thread. I am having a small issue but am not sure if it's related to SBS on my NAS. I have been ripping more CDs in FLAC and just doing a rescan for new and changed files. Quite often after the scan, I go into the SBS

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question

2011-03-28 Thread JJZolx
I don't think so. This is an age-old problem with Squeezebox Server and missing artwork when doing a new changed scan. At least we know it's much improved in 7.6. -- JJZolx JJZolx's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question

2011-03-28 Thread souwalker
JJZolx;621587 Wrote: I don't think so. This is an age-old problem with Squeezebox Server and missing artwork when doing a new changed scan. At least we know it's much improved in 7.6. Thanks JJ. Ouch - so I have no option but to possibly get a Vortexbox Appliance just for the speed