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[Lewin]

I'm using MC for Audio only and all my CD's are ripped to FLAC. If I understand correctly, there are two options for embedding cover art:

a) The cover art image is embedded into each track of an album
b) It is only in the Folder.jpg image, i.e. only once per album

While (b) saves some disk space, does this result in any disadvantage or missing features against (a)?
Thanks a lot for your answer.

[Vincent Kars]

I prefer to embed the cover art.
This makes the audio file self-documenting.
If you start moving files e.g. restructuring the file system, sync to a portable, there is always the risk the relation with the pic will be lost.
Likewise, if two different albums end up in the same directory, what happens to the pic?

BTW: there is an option C: you can embed a different pic in each track.
I use this sometimes in case of samplers.

[Al ex]

Embed all tags in the file. I never understood, why I should keep them outside. Also disk space is no issue for that.

[Lewin]

I'm scanning most of my covers, since the cover art found on the Internet is not always of good quality. My average JPG is around 125 KB. For an album with 16 tracks, this comes to 2 MB of additional overhead if cover art is embedded into each track. For FLAC-albums taking up about 400 MB, this amounts to roughly 0.5%. I just went through this quick calculation as you mentioned that disk space is no issue. Indeed, nothing to worry about.

Thanks for your answers.