Copy default cover into ID3v2.4 when possible

[bflorat]

Reported by fsck222 on 5 May 2008 14:48 UTC to help the interworking between portable MP3 player (iPod, Zune, etc...) and also other audio player. It will be good to be able to copy the cover into the music tags, to allow users to have their cover to be displayed on their MP3 players.

Not sure how to do that, but I guess it need to use ID3v2.4 cover field. This task could be done part of the common-jukebox framework?

[bflorat]

Commented by bflorat on 5 May 2008 15:19 UTC Definitively something to dig. Cover tags should be managed by jaudiotagger api.

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Commented by bflorat on 12 May 2008 16:42 UTC In all cases, the writing of cover into mp3 files should be optional and volontary as it would make files grow and possibly lock user with products that has the ability to read covers from tags.

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Commented by fsck222 on 12 May 2008 18:38 UTC I believe it should be a tool that will be used on demand (such as "find duplicate").

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Commented by bflorat on 13 May 2008 18:33 UTC I like this idea

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Commented by anonymous on 23 Jul 2008 15:56 UTC aTunes is working on this, but I think we will not make it part of common-jukebox because: a. The code is aTunes specific (at least part of it) b. There is no way to make it a separate jar easily

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Commented by anonymous on 10 Apr 2009 16:34 UTC tskler arkadasim

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Commented by bflorat on 6 Feb 2011 21:22 UTC Note that writing covers into tags has several drawbacks :

• Increases files size
• May override existing cover tag
• Which files do we want to set cover to ? current file ? all files of the same album in the same directory ? all files of the same album in any directory ?

Maybe should we add a new button or use SHIFT + default cover to explicitly write cover to the current file ? May be a first lightweight solution ?

Or add a new "default covers try to write cover as a tag" ?