Thanks to ascherjim for the heads-up on the a2dp situation - I must research that further.

I did a simple test of the Album Art handling last night.

I ripped some CDs using iTunes - I decided use this as expect that world-wide the majority of rippers will use it ( I don't usually as I said in an earlier post) Itunes tells me these id3 tags v2.2 and each file contains the album art. I ripped them to a completely separate folder to any other files. I then tried to play and display.

First on the PC

iTunes - Obviouly displayed the album Art

Musicmatch - Failed to show the covers

Windows Media Player - Failed to show the covers

WinAmp - Showed the covers perfectly


On the N800 - wifi/bluetooth was disable to avoid any downloads of art

UKMP, Kagu and Mediabox - All failed to display the art in the id3 tags
Canola2 doesn't display any art yet - that's coming.

I think that any player should display art embedded in the tags - is this reasonable?