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Guys
I desperately need some advice on how to make cover art show up in my V1 Homemedia.
For some of my music files I can see the cover art in Homemedia, for most of them I don't. I can't figure out why this is. Here is my set-up:
- My music is stored on a ReadyNas Duo in FLAC. The ReadyNas acts as the DLNA server (with native Netgear software)
- I use a Mac for managing my files
Simply adding a folder.jpg file with the cover art into the Album directory does not seem to work. Making the file smaller or larger does not seem to make a difference either. So, I must be overlooking something.
Who can give me some "Flac cover art for dummies" guidelines? I think I will need some "metadata tagging software" on my Mac to do the job. Any recommendations?
Looking forward to learn from the Forum's wisdom!
Jan
Max will do it - it has an album art function as well.
http://sbooth.org/Max/
Or XLD
http://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html
Which software do you normally use to rip and to manage/tag your flac files?
MM
There is a tv - and there is a BV
I am using Max.
I tried to convert files from itunes (m4a) to FLAC with Max. Probably I have done something wrong, because when I try to open the FLAC files with Max, I get an error message, saying something about a "missing cue file". No clue what the cue file is all about. So, I am stuck since I cannot open the FLAC files.
Any idea what I am doing wrong?
J.
You don't necsesarely need the cue file
For what a cue file is, see: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_sheet_(music_software)#undefined
Does it mean that you can't access the single FLAC files you have created?
Which player are you using for the FLAC's on the Mac?
Your initial post said that you already have your files on the NAS!
Means that you have two problems:
1: how to convert your m4a files to FLAC properly (note: if the files are data-compressed, it makes no sense to convert them to FLAC).
2: how to embed the album art in existing FLAC files on the Mac.
Is that so?
MM,
I'll look up the Cue File this evening.
Just to clarify a little bit. I normally don't use the Mac for playing my files on the NAS. I mostly play music from the NAS either through Sonos, or via the V1 HomeMedia. in case I play music on the Mac, I use VLC.
I have indeed a lot of music on my NAS, some of it is already in FLAC, others in m4a. I am now doing a sort of a "refresh" of my library consisting of:
- trying to add cover art to my existing Flac files (doesn't work because of the "missing cue file" error message in Max)
- re-ripping CD's that were previously in mpeg format, to make sure that they are ripped correctly and with the best quality (which was not always the case previously). As part of this, I also want to add the right cover art. Here again, I use Max but adding cover art does not give me the expected result :-(.
Hope this clarifies