Thread: N900 and iTunes album covers
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ceeceebee is offline ceeceebee
2009-09-28 , 21:05
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#27
Originally Posted by bbin View Post
Maemo's player show's the album art from id3 tag. Itunes doesn't copy the album art automatically to the id3 tag.

I don't get it, why the itunes doesn't copy all those images automatically to the id3 tag. All other than apple devices are using the id3 tag image album art.
Two things at play here. First Apple stores the art as meta-data in a datebase. This allows FAST access to the art, so cover-flow works. If they did not do this, the ipod would have to open EACH file to extract the art, (my ipod has 25000 songs) that that would take a long long time. So, into the meta-data it goes. Ratings stored there too, btw.

Second, once it is in the meta-data, apple figures WHY write it as a tag too? That wastes space, each art JPG is 100-300K, per SONG, and that adds up to something.

Oh, and they also want you to keep buying ipods! ;^)
 

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