It began by clearing any and all embedded artwork from my files through Mp3tag, and just to be extra safe, I redownloaded iTunes to clear the artwork from my files through there as well. Now, before I get suggestions like "search hidden files/folders etc." let it be known I have done that.Īnd so my quest to get rid of all these random files begins. On top of that, I was unable to find any of the random folders/files it said it was transferring, and have been unable to find them on my computer as well. I selected all the folders on the jump drive and checked the properties, and apparently I somehow had 3900 files even though I only have about 2000 songs and maybe 250 albums, so my max file count should have been something around 2300 in my mind. However, recently, while transferring my collection to my jump drive, I noticed it was transferring a lot of random files/folders such as AlbumArtwork13$97831 and random crap like that. I now use foobar and the Album Art Downloader to snag my album art, and I couldn't be happier. I thought it was great that it was able to download album artwork, and I had no idea about embedding or anything else I just knew it downloaded most of my artwork. Long ago, in the land before time, I used to use iTunes. I'm having an interesting issue with the Folder.jpg approach. iTunes is annoying on so many levels, although I understand the reasons that people use it. If I ever get an iPod I'd use the foo_dop plugin which can deal with folder.jpg and add that album art to the iPod database. So the main argument goes back to the redundancy of having the same image file embedded in multiple audio files, which has been mentioned many times in this thread. By this logic, you could consider album-art-from-the-album-it-came-from to be a property of a single song, similarly shared with other songs from that album the same as the standard %album% field. Nevertheless, the album-it-came-from IS a property of a single song, and I'm betting you have the %album% field filled in in your tags. Not a track has got an album name but an entire album does. Not a track has got a CD cover but an entire album does. From a data structure view an album art is not a property of a track but a property of an entire album. Quote from: Bugs.Bunny on 18:48:48 In my opinion it's wrong to embed album art.
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