Hi,
It occured to me that there is possibly another way to manage cover arts by managing them as pictures.
It is possible to make a view scheme group for audio and jpegs. If you store some jpegs inside your albums directories, you can import the images along the music files, you can tag them like your audio files with at least Artist and album name.
The Drawbacks:
- The views will show both audio and image files. (I know some don't like to mix jpg and mp3..)
- Statistics for the albums will show the total number of files (music+jpg's) which is not the real number of tracks. Same thing for the popup in album thumbnail mode.
The Advantages:
- When using the copy / move.. all files (music + images) are copied
- You can add more than just the cover art, and by selecting the Image Display plugin your album playback will be enlightened by a nice slideshow.
- As a bonus, when you view your album directories as 'Miniature' inside WXP explorer you get some nicely decorated folders/
For example let's look at the inside of my folder for "Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup':
There are 10 mpc files for the 10 tracks plus the following jpg : Cover front, cover back, cover inner1, cover inner2, the soup.
Each music file is associated with only the cover-front jpeg so that thumbnails (album group if logical) view will show the cover-front only.
I'm not really using this scheme, but I'm just wondering if this could be a possible strategy ?
Have a nice day,
christian