Problem importing album cover art for AAC files

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Problem importing album cover art for AAC files

Postby abby_normal on Tue Nov 08, 2005 2:36 am

Total xlobby noob here, so please bear with me. I've got ~17GB of music files, about half mp3 and half AAC (m4a, m4p). I've added cover art to most of the files already via iTunes (and the m4p tracks came with the cover art already installed when purchased through iTunes).

I've managed to import the files into the xlobby music db, and have 'em working pretty well via winamp, even the m4ps (can't get Apple lossless to work so far, but that's another story). But the cover art was only imported for the mp3s--not the AAC files. As far as I can tell, there's no essential difference in the cover art image data--bmps all around.

Any easy fix for this? Thanks in advance for any thoughts you might have!
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Postby rembetis on Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:56 am

I don't use AAC, but according to this thread (found through Google) it sounds like those files handle tagging, particularly embedded cover art, differently than other music files. You may end up needing to have an actual image file in each album folder. FWIW, a program like Tag and Rename (or for that matter, Xlobby's internal spiders) can make that download process fairly painless...
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Postby abby_normal on Thu Nov 10, 2005 2:08 am

Hey rembetis, thanks a lot for the response--certainly sounds logical. I'll look into the options you mention and report back if I get it working!
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