If your music collection is mostly comprised of albums, you can save a lot of disk space by not embedding album art in every file.
Adding a single JPG file per album folder is simpler than embedding that image (in an ID3 tag) inside each MP3 file of the album. Naming the file "albumart.jpg" works for me on the Sprint HTC Hero--but the album art may not show up until you start playing one of the songs from the album.
Behind the scenes the Hero copies the image to a numbered file in a root folder named "albumthumbs" as a JPG file without a file extension, usually resizing the image to about 320x320. (Once it has done this, you no longer need the original image file in the music folder.)
Adding a single JPG file per album folder is simpler than embedding that image (in an ID3 tag) inside each MP3 file of the album. Naming the file "albumart.jpg" works for me on the Sprint HTC Hero--but the album art may not show up until you start playing one of the songs from the album.
Behind the scenes the Hero copies the image to a numbered file in a root folder named "albumthumbs" as a JPG file without a file extension, usually resizing the image to about 320x320. (Once it has done this, you no longer need the original image file in the music folder.)
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