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Flobalob

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Cover art in .ape files??
« on: June 02, 2003, 10:10:55 am »
Correct me if I am wrong ...
I believe it is not possible to embed cover are in an .ape file.
Am I right?
I hope not!

Thanks
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Matt

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Re: Cover art in .ape files??
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2003, 10:25:57 am »
.APE files fully support internal cover art of any size.

Check the "Store cover art inside files" box on the image page of MC and then add images.
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Re: Cover art in .ape files??
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2003, 10:27:18 am »
No. you can.
All my cover art is embedded in ape files.
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Flobalob

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Re: Cover art in .ape files??
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2003, 10:41:04 am »
That's wierd because I tried that and I thought it was done successfully but when I play a song I just got the generic MC logo in the track info screen.
I then spent about two hours manually going to the properties of every album and re-linking the artwork to an external folder.
What am I doing wrong here?
I then looked at the Tagging properties in Monkeys Audio (not MC) and did not see any settings for image tagging so thought is was a no go.
Also, no cover art shows when serving to another computer over a network.
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Re: Cover art in .ape files??
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2003, 11:08:15 am »
Look at the "Format" pane inside MC while selecting files to see exactly what's in the tag.

MC has the best / most comprehensive tagging for APE files.  It's better than the tools shipped with Monkey's Audio itself.  ( I wrote the bad tagging tools in Monkey's Audio, so I can say that :P )

Thanks Flobalob.
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Flobalob

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Re: Cover art in .ape files??
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2003, 06:35:49 pm »
OK I think I figured it out...
Media Center's plug in for MAC is v3.98 which supports APE2 tags and I have MAC v3.97 installed which supports APE1 tags.
One day I noticed that when looking at files in MAC and checking info, no tags would show. I deduced that Media Center only knew what the songs where from the library database and that the files themselves where not tagged.
I then had MAC 3.97 renew all the tags automatically from the filename. When I then checked the file info in MAC 3.97, they were tagged. All was well except I did not realize that I had erased all the APE2 tags, including the cover art, and replaced them with APE1 tags.
So much for backwards compatibility. It is still a great program though.
So.....here's my plan...
I will update my Monkeys to 3.98
I will go to Media Center and have it update all tags from library.
I will then tell Media Center to store images inside files.
and I should them be good to go.
Can someone confirm this plan before I do it as I don't want to manually add cover art again.
Thanks again Matt
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