Discover media - contacts photos and music album art?

[JoeGTI]

Bill, I gave that a go last weekend and it didn't work. I didn't spend a lot of time at it and I haven't got round to looking at it since. But mine's the same - some songs / albums show artwork and a lot don't. I can't see any pattern or logical reason for it.

[Gryzor]

Basically it seems you need to insert suitable images into the files (suitably low res I assume) and then convert the files to something other than the protected format apple likes to use.

It's all in here guys:

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=256340.msg2352469#msg2352469

They need to be unprotected MP3, embedded images, preferably JPG, and less than 500 x 500 pixels.  Links to software is in there too, some free, some not, but none of it dodgy.  There is even a link to an embedded album art converter for if (like me) you have album art already but in hi-res.  This will turn them all into JPG anyway, so worthwhile using it.

[Bill_the_Bear]

Bill, I gave that a go last weekend and it didn't work. I didn't spend a lot of time at it and I haven't got round to looking at it since. But mine's the same - some songs / albums show artwork and a lot don't. I can't see any pattern or logical reason for it.

I'd love to investigate (seriously I'd love to, I'm weird like that) but I'm still months () away from picking up my car.

Gryzor's info looks promising though.

[GolfTi]

Thanks guys

Some progress, downloaded mp3 tag from CNET - good download.
Then used it to set tags.

Example artwork Coldplay Mylo Xyloto is 600 x 600 (shows in mp3 tag), so i removed this and downloaded a 360x360 version from within the cover artwork option.

This works for m4a or mp3.

Next step is to try Gryzors album art converter, hopefully this will allow bulk conversions.

Thanks again

[Gryzor]

The art converter definitely works in bulk - I did hundreds, if not thousands of tracks in one go.

[JoeGTI]

Cheers Gryzor, I'll give that a go when I find the motivation to boot up the laptop.

It's a royal pain though, you would think that music bought from the iTunes store for example would work "out of the box" but apparently not...

[Gryzor]

Cheers Gryzor, I'll give that a go when I find the motivation to boot up the laptop.

It's a royal pain though, you would think that music bought from the iTunes store for example would work "out of the box" but apparently not...

No probs, hope it sorts it for you!  It is a pain I agree, which is why I never buy from iTunes.  I just use that software as a means to get music onto my iDevices.

[GolfTi]

Cheers Gryzor, I'll give that a go when I find the motivation to boot up the laptop.

It's a royal pain though, you would think that music bought from the iTunes store for example would work "out of the box" but apparently not...

You're not wrong Joe.

[KyleB]

Cheers Gryzor, I'll give that a go when I find the motivation to boot up the laptop.

It's a royal pain though, you would think that music bought from the iTunes store for example would work "out of the box" but apparently not...

Just shows that piracy does pay 

[Gryzor]

Just shows that piracy does pay 

Wash your mouth out, it's "Try before you buy!"