no album covers for new tracks in n900 MP
 

I can transfer music over from windows media player to my N900, but it doesent have any album covers? I don't know what i am doing wrong.
Help please,
Barry :confused:

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The album art needs to be embedded into the mp3 file. You can do this with MP3Tag or similar programs.

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what if you use ogg, just curious

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Hi,
I used MP3 Tag and it works hurray.
Thanks for that Arif
:)

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does anyone have only partial album art on the N900? I only get about less that half the upper art and the rest is completely black for a lot of my albums. Any ideas? Thanks.

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what do you mean by mp3 tag?

do i just rename the gif filess .mp3 to get them to display?

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rename/copy folder.jpg (that i use on windows) to cover.jpg

that will help then i see my album art just fine..

If you add it later on, on your n900, it will not work you have to reset the trackers database: run "tracker-processes -r" in the terminal

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sorry, run me by that one again, i am confused.

people are talking about renaming the cover art to mp3tag's, and now you are saying just to rename them to cover.jpg.

which is it?

also, if my music and cover art is already on the device, am i to understand that i cannot simply connect it to the PC and rename the cover art from there?

can i instead cut the music folders to my computer, rename the cover art there, and then cut it back to the n900 and expect to have the media player do its job and display cover art properly?

many thanks. :)

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i think both work,
i just use the cover.jpg (extention doesnt matter i think)
and all my albums have a nice picture after i reset the tracker db/cache.

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How can we reset the tracker db/cache?

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in xterminal type the following
tracker-processes -r

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I type tracker-processes -r enter and tells me not found.

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tracker-processes -r works perfect for me!

but doesn anyone know why this appears on my music, ÿþM ?!

it replaces Muse as the artist, but otherwise it's all the same

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Well... everything is fine when you attach image if there weren't any before. But I want to change my existing cover to another embedded in ID3tag.
I've tried first just remove cover.jpg from directory, embed pics into tags and "tracker-processes -r" but it still shows my previous cover. Then I tried removing files (including .mediaartlocal subdirectory) and copy it again into device, restarting it, changing filenames, directories and even tags. Nothing worked...
Media player still finds its magic way to find the old cover and attach them instead of the new one.

Though I must sayd that when the song is playing, the album cover is the new one embedded in file, but in the album or artist view it stays old one...

Maybe media player stores some informations about it on the system partition. If this is the case, where are they and how to change them...?

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With MP3Tag you can remove cover and replace it with another one. That way you can transfer only mp3 to your device and it should show that cover.
Don't forget to save in MP3Tag after you change the cover.

Other way you can remove cover in MP3tag and when you copy your mp3 to the device include cover.jpg together in the same folder. But I dont know what happens if there are more mp3s in the same directory so probably its better to use the first method.

EDIT: I noticed that if you put mp3 with embedded cover on N900 and when tracker finishes it adds subdirectory .mediaartlocal with the picture from mp3. Maybe you need to delete this folder... just guessing

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awesome, I don't think you read my entire post, did you? ;)

I have embed pics to my mp3's and delete old cover.jpg already.
I've also remove .mediaartlocal folder. Tracker now creates new one with old covers, even when none of old album pics are available, neither in cover.jpg nor in mp3 tags.

BTW: To blow your doubts. when you put cover.jpg it affects to all mp3's in that folder.

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I knew that there has to be some other folders that keeps album arts. :D

If anyone has the same problem of changing album covers in N900 you just need to:
$ rm ~/.cache/tracker/file-*
$ rm ~/.cache/media-art/*
$ rm -R ~/MyDocs/your-music-folders/.mediaartlocal (this I think is optional but it's safe to do this)
$ tracker-processes -r

Restart device (in my case)...


Have a nice album-arts. ;)

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I've made everything like you but after restart the small covers (on the list of all albums in media player) are still the old ones. When I play a track the bigger cover is good. Is there a chance to delete the small covers?

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I have the exact same problem... stupid old covers just won't go away. Even though I've embedded pics into tags using Mp3tag the N900 still shows old covers. The old covers have got to be cached somewhere on the device (I tried the 'tracker-processes -r' and all that). But where???

It's driving me crazy.

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Thank you all for the information that i needed.
I started working with Mp3tag and you can do all the stuf that you need with Mp3tag + adding album covers.

Every song its own album cover! and if you select all songs will add 1 cover for all.

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/images/sht_main.png

Link http://www.mp3tag.de/en/download.html

ps. if somebody do not know how too integrate album covers ask me!

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Anybody have experience using cover art for .M4A AAC files? should work the same way (I hope)

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Mp3tag supports the following audio formats:

* Advanced Audio Coding (aac)
* Free Lossless Audio Codec (flac)
* Monkey's Audio (ape)
* Mpeg Layer 3 (mp3)
* MPEG-4 (mp4 / m4a / m4b / iTunes compatible)
* Musepack (mpc)
* Ogg Vorbis (ogg)
* OptimFROG (ofr)
* OptimFROG DualStream (ofs)
* Speex (spx)
* Tom's Audio Kompressor (tak)
* True Audio (tta)
* Windows Media Audio (wma)
* WavPack (wv)

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Me too, I haven't figured out how to change it.
I think there is some database somewhere that keeps a record of everything including the cover arts and links them to songs/albums/artists.

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Tracker is the program which indexes all the media on the N900. For MP3s it copies the cover art to a filename with the form /home/user/.cache/media-art/album-$(printf ' ' | md5sum)-$(printf '<album-name-in-lowercase>' | md5sum).jpeg. It follows the GNOME Media Art Storage Spec, except that it always uses a space instead of the album artist. (That's been reported as Bug 7263.

I've tried manually copying an album cover to this location for one of my Ogg Vorbis albums, and it showed up in the media player like it should. So for me the next step is to modify the tracker-extractor-vorbis package to copy the album covers like the MP3 extractor does. (Bug 7413)

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hey i have a question about album art, i have ripped an original CD on my pc, when i play it on windows media player the art appears, i copy paste the album to my n900, and played the songs there was no album art, but when i go to my images the album art is there :\

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1.) Read the whole thread from very beginning. Answer seems to be on first page ;-)

2.) Start xterm, navigate to folder, then:

mv Folder.jpg cover.jpg
tracker-processes -r

You might want to automate this for your whole folder structure using "find".
You might want to use symbolic link instead of renaming.

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Yes, they're cached in the "/home/user/.cache/media-art/" folder and ".mediaartlocal" folders in your music directories.
You have to remove them like I wrote before.

I also had to remove files "file-*" in the "/home/user/.cache/tracker/" directory for my changes to take effect.

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Just wanted to bring this topic back up not sure if the odd behavior of the N900 with how it saves cover art and its tracker would be a bug or not, but it makes it pretty hard for the end user to update cover art.

I just today wanted to update a cover art for an album and did the simple steps first of deleting the old files and the folder with the album cover in it and then rebooted the device and found it did not work.

I have not yet gone into the advanced steps listed here to run the xterm commands and delete all those folders, its a lot to do and a lot of work for the N900 just to update cover art.

Anyways I was thinking if we have a kind hearted developer about that can cook up a script/program for us that automates this process that would be awesome. The FM transmitter required typing out this long winded script into the xterm to boost the transmission signal, somebody made a nice little widget you just press and it does it for you. So that same kind of thing would work great for this.

Infact I am going to find out who made that widget and ask them kindly if they can bundle this process up for us into an automated deal.

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I don't use album art ... Kids these days and their pretty pictures!

But I'll whip up a little widget to fix album art if someone will post a definitive set of commands and I see a couple people say, "works for me". It's not clear to me what the magic commands are yet.

Do I need to write a script to do both jcompagner / Weiner's suggestion (move any files named Folder.jpg to cover.jpg and run tracker-processes -r) and ravbin's suggestion (delete /home/user/.cache/media-art/*, any .mediaartlocal folders, and /home/user/.cache/tracker/file-*, then run tracker-processes -r ), or just one or the other?

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I agree and that was my only concern is that we do not have a proper command set yet, esp since the 1.1 update things may be different now. I noticed my album art loads faster on the main selection screen so that may mean things have changed up in how they load/store.

I'll do some testing later tonight and let you know how it goes.

I do belive people with the worst issues needed to delete the local content and then update the tracker because just refreshing the tracker it still loaded the old cover art stored in the local folders.

I think even still as far as this thread goes we have only discovered the location of the "large art" the ones that you see while a track is playing and not the smaller icons that you see when picking the album from the main menu.

But thanks for coming so quickly to help out.

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I have the same problem '.m4a' cover art is not shown

Google came up with this

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7413

Has anyone got th epatch to work? Is it safe?

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mussorgsky mussorgsky mussorgsky mussorgsky

I repeat

mussorgsky mussorgsky mussorgsky mussorgsky

Amazing, it seems this little gem of an app fixes the tracker issues and finds cover.jpg for ogg files - it uses those you may have already downloaded or there is a search option.

So cool.

Anyway to thank the author Ivan Frade? Kudos man!

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anyone working on mussorsky? I cant edit tags forward/back. mussorgsky hangs

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I used it for correcting album art, sorry haven't ried editing tags.

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Hey, i have tried Mp3Tag but i don't understand how to use it, could you just explain to me how to use it because i don't understand its help pages.

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I had a problem that for one album, the cover art showed up corrupt on my N900, while the cover showed 100% correct on my PC in Windows Media Player and mp3tag editor. this strangely enough only happened with Beyonce's new album "4".

When I changed "4" into "Four" in the mp3tag editor, the cover art showed up crystal clear on my N900. So maybe the N900 does not accept album titles starting with a number?

Anyway, although this may not be the best "N900 tip of the day" ever, maybe it is useful to someone :)

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If there is a picture that can be opened in .mediaartlocal directory of the given album and it does not show up in mediaplayer, manually copying this file to /home/user/.cache/media-art/ helps.

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Mussorgsky Only Works For "Mp3" i guess

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ust for the record, if someone stumble upon this thread (just like I did, searching for programs to manage album cover arts on device) - statement in above post is, obviously, complete BS. Mussorgsky works with ogg files as well, and, in fact, with any file type supported by python-mutagen.

Cheers,
/Estel