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[SBrandsborg aka Mouseman]

Hi everybody

Whats the best way to store cover art???
right now i have 600x600 JPG files internal in all my files is it better to just have a jpg file in the folder where the album is stored???

[Mastiff]

I keep them in my files since it's a lot easier to trade files with friends that way, and keep the cover art, and also since I like my directories tidy.  

[KingSparta]

I keep them In the Dir

Since I don't Give my music to anyone

It Is Easy To Then Use The Option:

Get Cover Art From The Internet

Then Select

Mode: Local (Use Already Downloaded Cover Art)

MC will search the Coverart Dir In A Few Seconds And I Don't need to spends Hours Waiting For MC to look for something I Already Have.

[SBrandsborg aka Mouseman]

okay thanks guys

[nila]

It's definitely better to have it seperate I think.

Reasons:

If it's inside the file then the file is fully self contained and can function by itself fully stand alone HOWEVER if the image file is: 500kb it means that for an album with 20 tracks you have that same image repeated 20 times so it's taking up 10Mb of space for that album. Having it individually only takes up .5Mb.

[DocLotus]

I keep them in a seperate folder 1000 x 1000 size so they will show up full screen size on my Sony 1024 x 1280 screen...

*  I sometimes just want to page through them with ACDSee as some of them are very pretty.

* I sometimes want to re-size them all at one time (this can't be done if they are in the music files).

[JeffreyK]

I've played with the cover art a bit by having MC store them in a single directory for all the cover art, but it is possible to store the images in the same directory as the album?  Ideally, I'd like to keep it all together...

[sertua]

I've been thinking the same as you JeffreyK.

[SBrandsborg aka Mouseman]

Space is not a problem so i think ill just keep them in the idtag

[rocketsauce]

Mode: Local (Use Already Downloaded Cover Art)

MC will search the Coverart Dir In A Few Seconds And I Don't need to spends Hours Waiting For MC to look for something I Already Have.

Does this only work if the art is in the same folder as the files or will it work if it's in the cover art directory specified in options and the .jpgs are named something like artist - album?  Also, do you have to choose local every time or can it be set permanently?

Rob

[Phil Lee]

I was updating my cover art last night and had some problems.

In MJ8 when you downloaded cover art you were presented with the image and asked if you want to use it or a different one on your local hard disk.

In MC9 you aren't given any choice. A cover art image is either associated with the album or not. If no image is found there doesn't appear to be a way to you used to be able to point a track or album at a specific image file like you could in MJ8. Also you can't edit the cover art tag manually to correct this. I found it a real pain to have to download an image, save it to my cover art folder then give it the same name as the album so that MC9 would pick it up.

I also had problems with compilation CD's. For example, I have a Fleetwood Mac box set with 6 CD's. I want to use the same cover image for each one. The albums are called "The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (CD#)" where # = 1 to 6. I had an image file called Fleetwood Mac - The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (CD1).jpg which was associated with the first album. None of the other 5 albums would pick up the same image even with the low tolerance option selected and I forced it to look at the local hard disk only.

The only way I could get this to work was to have 6 copies of the same image with the same file name as each album. In MJ8 I was able to have just 1 image because I could explicitly point the album at an image.

[The Muffin Man]

I'd also like a tool to take Cover Art from say, the "central repository" to the directory where the file is. I _could_ do it but it would be nice to have a tool do it for me.  I just started storing the images centrally before there was an option to store them with the files.