Album Art Question

jporch316 · November 16th, 2009, 08:32 AM

Im not getting something here?

Cant get the album art to register with an mp3 album ive pasted into a folder called "music" on my storage card.

Do I need to put the album image in with the tracks themselves? Do I need to call the image a certain filename? do I need to do something totally different?

jporch316 · November 16th, 2009, 02:43 PM

Ok this is driving me mad - ive tried the following

1. Normal copy and paste into music folder from my laptop
2. Adding a front cover using windows media player
3. Adding albumart.jpg into the album folder
4. Using media monkey (auto tag from web)

None of these have worked - I still have no album art. There must be someone out there who knows how to fix this? Or I am missing the bleeding obvious!!!!!!!

It seriously cant be this difficult

mnovalri · November 16th, 2009, 02:53 PM

Hello,

I am using iTunes for my music library. All my song are associated with an album art. I have a mac and I synchronize my music and photos on the Tattoo with "Double Twist". This program also exists for Windows. Perhaps can you try that!

jporch316 · November 16th, 2009, 03:04 PM

Can i not just copy and paste?

Do I have to sync the music then?

jporch316 · November 16th, 2009, 03:35 PM

tried syncing with windows media player and now i officially give up!!!!

looks like a musical note forever for me

BTaylor · November 16th, 2009, 03:41 PM

My Little Big Apps Album Art Grabber for Android Try this app, it's great

jporch316 · November 16th, 2009, 03:54 PM

ive just bought it - couldnt get it off market cos the tattoo cant see it - it looks good - shouldnt have to buy an app for something that the OS should automatically do

Velophile · November 24th, 2009, 02:04 PM

Not sure if there's another way of getting the media player to use coverart but it will do if the artwork is embedded in the MP3 file as id3v2 tags.

That's how I got it to work for me anyway, I wrote a Java program to download the cover art from google and embed it in the song files.

Huw · November 26th, 2009, 08:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Velophile

Not sure if there's another way of getting the media player to use coverart but it will do if the artwork is embedded in the MP3 file as id3v2 tags.

Really? Wow! I had no idea you could embed images in ID3v2 tags! Thanks for the info.

jporch316 · November 26th, 2009, 08:38 AM

Just for the record the Album Art Grabber is the easiest way to do this - couple of pounds well spent - it is seamless!

dmsameeram · March 11th, 2010, 09:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Velophile

Not sure if there's another way of getting the media player to use coverart but it will do if the artwork is embedded in the MP3 file as id3v2 tags.

That's how I got it to work for me anyway, I wrote a Java program to download the cover art from google and embed it in the song files.

how can we embed them to mp3 file. can you give a idea to do it or can you share your java app weth us?

brandmarked · March 12th, 2010, 11:17 AM

I use a few things depending on what PC I'm using (I have a few)

MP3tag is shareware you can find from a google search. I like this.

iTunes - Right click on the song or selection of songs, select Get Info, click the Artwork tag and paste the image into the box. (you can actually use iTunes to get the album art, then do the copy and paste).

Windows Media - works in a similar way to iTunes.

There are quite a number of good how-to's on the web, better than I could write giving more detail on the above, do a Google search. But shout if you still need some help.

- Mark

brandmarked · March 12th, 2010, 11:21 AM

Here's a couple of examples

CyberNotes: Add Album Art in iTunes

How to Get Album Artwork for an iPod or iTunes - wikiHow

- Mark

dark1ro · March 12th, 2010, 12:04 PM

Here is one using WMP 10 : http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/windowsmediaplayer/wmp10/addalbumart.mspx

jporch316 · March 15th, 2010, 05:55 AM

Ive got to be honest here - i tried windows media plyer and could not get the info to transfer to the tattoo.

As I said earlier I paid for album art grabber and its awesome - use directly on the phone to an album and it pulls all the info down within seconds - cool app

jporch316 · March 15th, 2010, 05:56 AM

On a side note - i couldnt find it in the market place so went straight to the developer and paid through paypal for it - he then emailed me the .apk files.

pradepkumar · June 5th, 2010, 03:47 PM

The easiest way to attach an album art to a music file is through Mediamonkey. Get it from MediaMonkey Free Media Jukebox, Music Manager, CD Ripper & Converter . It is free. You can right click on a song and either get the album art from the net or attach a photo from your pc . Works like a charm. Ive been using it for a long time.