@nickcoll ....Nope, it's not that I'm afraid. The 300x300 image is a mere 25k after resizing and saved at 85% compression! They're always jpegs I use for the covers.

 

The frustrating thing is, I can briefly 'see' all the covers cascaded underneath the generic source icon almost like a pack of cards, so I know they're there.

 

Plus there's the fact that all my 'mixed' artists folders, all show up perfectly. It's really baffling (& annoying) me.

OK, I think I've cracked it (at least for Mac users).

 

Itunes:  Create a playlist and drag whatever you want in there (obviously it's got to be a little less than the size of the SD card you're using).

 

Download Re-apply Downsized Artwork (http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts13.php) - costs around £1.40 (Mac only I'm afraid) and run that on your playlist created above. I set the Downscale resolution to 200px and just overwrote existing artwork although you can choose to make this the first artwork and preserve the original if you require.

On a playlist that previously had something like 40% missing artwork although iTunes had all of it, using the Re-apply Downsized Artwork script, I now have 100% of my artwork showing on the Amundsen!

 

 

Download iSyncer (http://www.isyncer.de/en/releases) - it's available for Windows as well.  This will allow you to select the playlist you created above and copy it to your SD card. You might want to play with the profiles to get the file structure you want on the SD card, but it's pretty versatile.

 

Let me know if this works for you please!

The correct way to have the cover art appear in every MP3 is the following:

- image must have a maximum size of 500x500 pixel

- image file size must not exceed 200KB

- image must not be progressive. (It took me a while to understand this)

 

In case you download a progressive image (in linux/MacOS you can check it with jhead -v and if you see Progressive, then you can convert it with jpegtran in.jpg >out.jpg

That will do the trick.

No idea on how to do it under Windows but I guess someone else will be able to tell you.

 

Cheers!

Nice thread resurrection!

 

I just recently re-ripped all of my CD's using Sony MediaGo software (its a free download for PC and Mac) so now its all 256kbit AAC (m4a). This software just seems to work better than iTunes. It got nearly all the album info right first time and most tracks got the album art embedded too. Thank you Sony

The correct way to have the cover art appear in every MP3 is the following:

- image must have a maximum size of 500x500 pixel

- image file size must not exceed 200KB

- image must not be progressive. (It took me a while to understand this)

 

In case you download a progressive image (in linux/MacOS you can check it with jhead -v and if you see Progressive, then you can convert it with jpegtran in.jpg >out.jpg

That will do the trick.

No idea on how to do it under Windows but I guess someone else will be able to tell you.

 

Cheers!

This progressive image thing appears to be the missing piece of the puzzle for those who still have problems even though their album art images comply both in terms of file size and pixel area.

 

Windows users can download irfanview (google it - it's free) and check whether an image is progressive or not. Jpegtran also has a windows binary available on their website which will take care of the conversion in the same way as ciclista71 describes above.

And my sons tell me their Macs are intuitive and scorn my PC! I simply copied all my iTunes tracks (160Gb) onto a 256Gb SD card, shoved it slot 2 and everything came up instantly on Media complete with artwork. Simples!

And my sons tell me their Macs are intuitive and scorn my PC! I simply copied all my iTunes tracks (160Gb) onto a 256Gb SD card, shoved it slot 2 and everything came up instantly on Media complete with artwork. Simples!

Not sure what you mean exactly here. In some cases all the artwork will be fine, but what others have been examining is the cases where it doesn't display properly.

 

This is not a Mac/PC thing - it's more about where the artwork came from, what size the image is (in pixels and MB), and the latest tip is that it must be coded as baseline rather than progressive (which is a different way of incorporating the data in the image file).

 

There are tools for manipulating the images within music files on both platforms and certainly from my personal experience the tools which are available on the Mac work great. How would you sort out an image which didn't display properly (as it certainly could happen to you)?

Basic Dumbo question.

 

I have about 30 albums on a USB drive saved as MP3. when played on the Amundsen not matter what album or track is playing it displays the same screen artwork, in my case 'The Animals'

 

WMP displays all the artwork but I cannot find any artwork in the main Audio folder or individual album folders, it must be somewhere though as my previous Avensis found the artwork without any input from me! IF I can find the artwork I may be able to show it correctly!!

 

Where do you start looking?

I would start by taking a look at what artwork is stored within the MP3 files.

 

As far as the (very sketchy) Skoda documentation is concerned, the head unit displays the artwork for the music file that is playing. I have not seen any suggestion that it will find and display artwork that is elsewhere.

 

Furthermore in my experience it does not display any artwork for any MP3 file that do not contain artwork.

I would start by taking a look at what artwork is stored within the MP3 files.

 

As far as the (very sketchy) Skoda documentation is concerned, the head unit displays the artwork for the music file that is playing. I have not seen any suggestion that it will find and display artwork that is elsewhere.

 

Furthermore in my experience it does not display any artwork for any MP3 file that do not contain artwork.

 

Hmmm.. Artwork stored within the MP3 files, none that I can find, I thought MP3 files were purely audio files. Tried properties but no indication of any artwork. but the artwork is shown in WMP so it must be somewhere! The Amundsen can play all afternoon and still show that same Animals artwork!

 

Any other clues?

Try some software like mp3tag. It'll allow you to view and edit all the info an mp3 file contains including any artwork.

Hi Prog, thanks for the advice, now downloaded and installed mp3tag and will have a play tomorrow. Be nice to see something other than 'The Animals'!!

It's a useful piece of software so I hope you get on with it. Let me know if you get stuck with anything.

Try some software like mp3tag. It'll allow you to view and edit all the info an mp3 file contains including any artwork.

 

Mp3tag is very useful as individual mp3 files can actually have more than one piece of album art embedded in them (the idea being that tags can contain art for the front and back of the cd, as well as inlay cards etc) and mp3tag shows you whether this is the case or not. The reason this is useful is because - in my experience - if a particular file has more than one piece of album art embedded in it the amundsen can get confused and end up displaying nothing at all.

 

If you right-click the file in mp3tag and hit 'extended tags...' then you'll be able to see what the file's got attached to it, and you can delete any extra stuff that shouldn't be there. In my experience where there's more than one piece of album art in a file, it's because there are duplicates (which presumably are created when a file which already has some album art embedded is run through some media centre software which sources another version of the picture and plonks it alongside what's already there).

Not a lot of luck so far, opened some of my folders containing the tracks and as CD above suggested hit 'extend tags' after about a dozen files showed no artwork I opened WMP and found they all had artwork shown there. I then opened the ABBA files Abba 'Gold' and 'The Music Still Goes on' in Mp3tag and selected 'Tag Sources' and Amazon.com and found both covers that seemed to work. I found that some of my music files were on Amazon UK but that option does not appear in the Mp3tag options.

 

I am truly starting from total ignorance on this subject, and struggle to comprehend why WMP and my out of date Avensis had no trouble displaying artwork without seemingly any problem. It would seem my music files only contain the music and nothing else.

 

As said I can find 'The Best of Dreamboats and Pettycoats' triple cd set on Amazon UK and is shown in WMP but Mp3tag cannot find anything reporting 'Sorry, no entries are matching your search criteria'. There are 3 cd's and WMP shows the 3 cd's with artwork for each.I am obviously not doing something right. Tried the 'Getting started' pages but think they are for someone who already understands what they are doing and terminology to go with it.

WMP will save the artwork as files in the same folder by default.

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odd one this - i have say 30 albums (each in their own folder)  on my sd card with album art and they display ok on the admunsen so i can flick them across and choose an album to play no issues.

 

if however i put a 31st folder on the sd card with a random selection of 20 different songs/artists in it i get a collection of my 30 albums and 20 individual songs to flick thru on the touch screen rather than than 31 album folders

 

any ideas why this happens or how to fix this?

Snippet screen shot of my ABBA The Music Still Goes on attached. There seems to be only mp3 music files shown. I have 'show hidden files' ticked in Files and folder options.

 

Snippet also shown from mp3tag showing the artwork. If the artwork is saved in the album folder why does it not show up?

 

Warned you I was starting from scratch!

 

 

 

That's how my music files look in mp3tag and the artwork shows up just fine on the Amundsen.

Enable view system files as well

Also try the Sanse album art utility - you can reduce the sizes and the quality - try 300x300 at 90% quality.

 

I find 500x500 can be a bit hit and miss

99% of mine are 500x500 and they work fine.

EDIT: There are around 6,000 files on my SD card.

Edited 23 March, 201610 yr by Prog

All depends on the jpeg quality setting I find

 

300x300 don't seem to be a problem

Ah, I can't comment on the jpeg quality. It's mostly whatever last.fm use.

http://hcware.t15.org/

 

Useful tool for batch processing of art