Richard, There are two different ways to handle this, but only one of them that I know for sure works on the Pre.
Option 1: find cover art for an album, label the file cover.jpg and stick it in the same directory as the MP3 files. Most media player apps will look there for the cover art and display it accordingly. Of course, that only works on the PC you're using. Option 2 (works with the Pre): embed the cover art into the MP3 file's ID3 tag, just as you suggested. I have zero knowledge of Ubuntu, but on Windows I use a great, free ID3 manager app called MP3Tag that allows me to drag a JPG onto a bunch of MP3 files and save them with that cover art embedded in their ID3 tags. I assume there would be an equivalent app for Ubuntu. Actually finding the cover art is an entirely different thing. There are some apps that kinda, sorta automate locating the cover art, but none I've seen work well. Even iTunes is hit and miss. Generally, I do a Google image search for the album name, find one of suitable dimensions (I recommend 200x200 to 300x300) and drag it into MP3Tag directly off the webpage where it resides. I then save the MP3 files to update them with the change. Then, new album. I can do a few hundred in a couple of hours if I'm really cooking, but it's laborious. Hope that helps. - Craig On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Richard Perry<[email protected]> wrote: > OK, so I downloaded my first Amazon MP3 album last weekend. Had some issues > doing it, "but that's another show." > > What I wanted to talk about here was this: The album I downloaded had cover > art! > > None of the mp3's I copied over from my home server had that. They kept all > the ID3 tag information (album, track name and sequence, etc), just not the > art I see when running Amarok or Rythymbox...which brings me to part of my > probable problem - I don't use Windows at all. I'm running Ubuntu on all my > home machines now. > > So what I'm assuming is that there's some sort of embedded information in > the mp3's I downloaded that either included a picture of the cover art, it > stuck a cover of the cover art somewhere on my Pre or it's got some sort of > lookup onto Amazon's server. > > Anyone got any advice on this? It would be appreciated: it's not like this > is a killer problem - it's just a nice ID at a glance to see the art when a > given song is playing. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- CRA1G on Twitter
