Richard, You might be interested in this linux.com review: http://linux.com/archive/feature/153034
Cheers, Eugenio Craig Froehle wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> > > >
