lifehacker.com — Last week we took a big step toward improving your MP3 collection by leveling the track volume. Now it's time to focus on album art, which is less of a practical improvement and more of a fun one. If your music library was built from a variety of sources chances are good you've got some missing or messed-up artwork. Fortunately it's not hard to fix
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lofidanJan 29, 2007
@packetlockSize of music file = many megabytes.Size of folder.jpg = a few k.It doesn't have to be a huge 24 bit uncompressed bmp file... some of us cope with a low res file.
petrokJan 29, 2007
I need to look into that... doesn't iTunes not write it to the ID3 tags either.If not, I really need to find a hack to apply iTunes art to ID3v2 tags (of course that would mean a little more file bloat...wouldn't it?)
praisethelardJan 29, 2007
err...RadiatedAnt, aren't CDs already digital?
jguerryJan 29, 2007
i've just tested ID3-TagIT and Tag & Rename software. There is an inconvenience which I do not like. When I have multiple copies of the same song/file, it will not rename them and gives an error message. Does anyone know of a program that will just append a 1,2,3,etc to the end of the filename before the .mp3 ?
mouskyJan 30, 2007
Are you sure it is LAME? Which version of LAME are you using? I have no problems with LAME encoded VBR MP3s with my SanDisk Sansa players.Go to: <a class="user" href="http://rarewares.org/mp3.html">http://rarewares.org/mp3.html</a> to get the latest version of LAME. There is also an alpha version that you can try out.
nitesh9999Jan 30, 2007
@verse101I can get the job done quicker in MediaMonkey, the interface for me is a little more intuitive.MM is free too. :)
cyclopsfaceJan 30, 2007
Yeah, they were encoded with the latest version of LAME. It's a pretty well documented problem with iTunes (though not anywhere on apple's support site of course :/) that it uses old school VBR headers or something and doesn't understand the newer standard, so it calculates the length of the song based on how many bits are in the first chunk, and so if the beginning of the song doesn't just happen to have the average amount of bits, the length of the song comes out wrong. There are some programs on the internet that are supposed to batch rewrite the headers for iTunes benefit but nothing worked for me.ps: the problem is with iTunes. I wish I could just use Amarok, but it took me 2 days to compile it for my mac and i never could get it to update my iPod :(
guhappyFeb 6, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://www.mp3tag.de/en/">http://www.mp3tag.de/en/</a> If you like Tag&Rename, try this free alternative instead... Mp3tag