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Title: First post help with album art
Post by: nuckles on February 22, 2009, 08:12:21 AM

Just downloaded freebox.
I am having trouble working out how to add album art.
I looked on the site for a answer but could not find one.
Its most likley right in front of me but need some help.

thanks
cameron

Title: Re: First post help with album art
Post by: Orc on February 22, 2009, 01:10:56 PM

The album art goes in the album folder...

You can name it what you like....cover.jpg......folder.jpg......front.jpg etc....

Then when you run the config you specify your cover name and if you want it to generate cover thumbnails which are used on the album screen to make paging faster....

Title: Re: First post help with album art
Post by: GMac on February 22, 2009, 01:33:41 PM

I have found that if you are using folder.jpg then this is the default one that Windows Media Player uses and it will hide the file and make it a system one. Freebox does not pick these up. I wrote the following batch script that unhides all the folder.jpg files, copies them to a file called cover.jpg and then rehides the folder.jpg. That way WM Player and Freebox can co-exist quite happily. If you run this at the root of your music collection it will recurse through your directory structure and create cover.jpg all the way through it for you.

artconvert.bat

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echo off
cls
attrib folder.jpg -s -h /s
for /r %%i in (Folde?.jpg) do copy "%%i" "%%~dpicover.jpg"
attrib folder.jpg +s +h /s

In the interests of credit where credit is due, I got the original idea from Lars who posted a similar idea to this thread.

http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=953.msg8932#msg8932 (http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=953.msg8932#msg8932)

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