Mp3 Album Art

pioneer2000 · 30 Sep 2008 at 14:31

I'm trying to sort out all my music but having few issues:

Firstly- WMP sees to be showing different album art to media monkey. I guess WMP uses the saved folder.jpg etc but media monkey looks at tags? How can I get them to match up?

Second- Whenever I import my music into Itunes- a good few albums do not display art. I cannot tell any difference between the ones that do and the ones that dont... so why doesnt it work?!

All my abums have folder.jpg saved in the folders and I thought I had tagged them correctly using media monkey.....

helmutcheese · 30 Sep 2008 at 14:49

Tag&Rename

http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm

WMP puts it own junk in there and lots of it.

You would need unhide System Files (not simply Hidden Files And Folders).

You then will see lots of weird long names pictures inside the Albums if you have loaded them into WMP.

pioneer2000 · 30 Sep 2008 at 14:52

Yes I am aware of those files- but surely they can only help itunes identify the album art

Basically I want my art to work in both WMP and Itunes - what does ituns actually look for in order to display the album art....??

helmutcheese · 30 Sep 2008 at 16:28

I would not let Itunes crap near my PC period m8.

londonbairn · 30 Sep 2008 at 16:34

helmutcheese said:
I would not let Itunes crap near my PC period m8.

That's one thing we can agree on

bitterSTAR · 1 Oct 2008 at 22:00

helmutcheese said:
I would not let Itunes crap near my PC period m8.

Itunes does a much better job than WMP, WMP screws all your ID3 tags and artwork up!

I use Tag&Rename to tag all my music correctly.

Major_Disaster · 3 Oct 2008 at 18:07

Mp3Tag + iTunes = Perfection

helmutcheese · 3 Oct 2008 at 19:57

bitterSTAR said:
Itunes does a much better job than WMP, WMP screws all your ID3 tags and artwork up!

I use Tag&Rename to tag all my music correctly.

Again no Itunes crap will ever be near my PC, I don't need as I don't own Ipod POS either.(I aint a sheep who follows the flock) I have a ZVM 30GB since just after launch

WMP if you tell it not too (in settings) will not mess with your Tags done by yourself with other App's like Tag&Rename.

It will still stick in tiny pictures for itself to use but these will not mess up other players inc DAPS's as Tag&rename has Encoded the correct Art into the actual music files and you have a .jpg called Folder in each album Folder which is what the DAP will look for.

Major_Disaster · 4 Oct 2008 at 15:32

How am i a sheep by buying an iPod? Ridiculous.