CD Cover Art

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Hi,

just received the HD unit. I ripped my audio cd’s using exact audio copy and then converting to FLAC.

how do I get it to WD HD unit to display the audio CD Cover art? I see it on some mp3’s and others don’t have it.

I have the original audio cd’s so how do you go about getting to display the cover art?

thanks!

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two methods

  1. obtain the cover art by using a program that supports tagging such as mp3tag, tagscanner, winamp etc. (they all work with FLAC not just MP3) - tagscanner makes finding cover art easier but i prefer mp3tag for overall ease of use. Winamp is a great media player but it uses the gracenote db which is not too hot for cover art especially for older or less popular titles, besides, winamp does not embed the artwork in the file it uses folder.jpg (or a file of your choice).  You could also use Windows Media Player but I don’t like the way it spreads hidden jpeg files all over the relevant folder. The metadata does not seem very accurate either.

  2. use “manual” artwork ie. if you have a media file called rumours.flac then the artwork file should be called rumours.jpg etc.

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Thanks for your help. I guess I’m still unclear on how the WD player reads the cover art.

when the audio file is ripped from the audio cd, it’s a wave file, then it does the FLAC encoding.

so is the cover art imbedded in the wave file and FLAC file?

I’ll check with the software I’m using.

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There’s no cover art on the CD if that’s what you are thinking.

You have to obtain the cover art from the internet, then either a) embed it in the FLAC file [the cover is another tag, just like the title, artist etc.] or b) use the WDTV manual method as I described in (2) above.  I would recommend the 1st method because a) less files=less mess in the directory b) the jpegs will not show up under the WDTV ‘Photos’ menu and c) it’s just less work when dealing with many files

EDIT: BTW, the ideal cover art size is 300x300, because that’s the size of the graphic you see when the song is playing.