Does anyone have any experience embedding album art into MP3 ID tags (or especially playlists)?
Like jpg's particularly?
How would wimamp display them while the song is playing?
I know that the other guys at MS have a full screen image area when using the "now playing" option, and it shows the album art.
any help is appreciated
thx
embedding images in MP3's
6 posts
i have written a program that inserts any data into mp3s, and pulls that data back out.
currently i am changing it into a winamp plugin, so give me a little while and we'll see what happens 🙂
currently i am changing it into a winamp plugin, so give me a little while and we'll see what happens 🙂
awaiting your progress
ok, please keep me posted on this.
thx
ok, please keep me posted on this.
thx
Uhhh ... I hate to be mean, but what does this have to do with NSIS???
-Duane
-Duane
There has already been made a Winamp plug-in that reads album-art from MP3's.
Really, I don't see any point in putting album art in an MP3, because it just makes it harder for some players to play it, and it's far from being part of the standard.
Really, I don't see any point in putting album art in an MP3, because it just makes it harder for some players to play it, and it's far from being part of the standard.
Simply place the url of the JPG in the url field of the ID3v2 tag.
For internet based files, just type the full url, eg.
http://www.site.com/dir/file.jpg
Or you can create an html page for each specific MP3, with the images/artwork/extra info/etc, then link directly to this instead.
For local based mp3's, use the following format (also in the ID3v2 url field)
file:///c:/folder/subfolder/file.jpg
Or if you create a html page:
file:///c:/folder/subfolder/file.html
If there's any spaces in any of the local or internet url's, then replace them with the html code for a space: %20
eg.
file://c:/my music/pink floyd/animals/sheep.html
would be typed as:
file://c:/my%20music/pink%20floyd/animals/sheep.html
Or:
http://www.mysite.com/streams/pink floyd/animals/sheep.html
http://www.mysite.com/streams/pink%20floyd/animals/sheep.html
For this to work, the minibrowser needs to be already open and also it won't work if "no internet connection" is selected in Prefs -> Setup.
Older versions of Winamp supported a similar method, but the url was typed in the comments field of either the ID3v1 or v2 tag as follows:
^www.site.com/dir/file.html
However, this feature has since been disabled because there was no way of preventing the minibrowser from popping up for every track on the radio stations which used it. Many people reported this as an infringement of privacy, and the feature was eventually removed, and rightly so!
Also, ID3v2.4 and higher supports image/artwork tags,
but at the moment, Winamp still uses ID3v2.3 🙁
As the guys above say, the only other way is to use plugins
There's definitely at least one relevant plugin available, if not more.
For internet based files, just type the full url, eg.
http://www.site.com/dir/file.jpg
Or you can create an html page for each specific MP3, with the images/artwork/extra info/etc, then link directly to this instead.
For local based mp3's, use the following format (also in the ID3v2 url field)
file:///c:/folder/subfolder/file.jpg
Or if you create a html page:
file:///c:/folder/subfolder/file.html
If there's any spaces in any of the local or internet url's, then replace them with the html code for a space: %20
eg.
file://c:/my music/pink floyd/animals/sheep.html
would be typed as:
file://c:/my%20music/pink%20floyd/animals/sheep.html
Or:
http://www.mysite.com/streams/pink floyd/animals/sheep.html
http://www.mysite.com/streams/pink%20floyd/animals/sheep.html
For this to work, the minibrowser needs to be already open and also it won't work if "no internet connection" is selected in Prefs -> Setup.
Older versions of Winamp supported a similar method, but the url was typed in the comments field of either the ID3v1 or v2 tag as follows:
^www.site.com/dir/file.html
However, this feature has since been disabled because there was no way of preventing the minibrowser from popping up for every track on the radio stations which used it. Many people reported this as an infringement of privacy, and the feature was eventually removed, and rightly so!
Also, ID3v2.4 and higher supports image/artwork tags,
but at the moment, Winamp still uses ID3v2.3 🙁
As the guys above say, the only other way is to use plugins
There's definitely at least one relevant plugin available, if not more.