album art - embedding directly into the mp3?

kennethlee · 11th October 2007, 09:55

I was happily reading over the list of improvements in 5.5 and I saw album art and decided to download. While I have a few complaints/questions one is burning most...

If winamp is set to display album art that is embed into the mp3, why can it not also embed the album art into the mp3 when you use winamp to update it?

As I currently see, when updating album art, Winamp plops a .jpg it got from AOL into your music folder.

Any thoughts?

Flegint · 11th October 2007, 10:59

Absolutely agree with you. Album art embedding into the file option is the thing I really miss in this Winamp release.

jgordizbak · 11th October 2007, 14:19

Totally agree. We should have the option to embed album art within MP3.

Also --- Winamp should auto crop all artwork so that it's square. I read the iPod won't show artwork unless the width/height is 1:1

kittmaster · 12th October 2007, 17:56

that would be cool to see this too. I have all my MP3 in one main folder and not artist or group subfolders. All the embedded art get jumbled and messed up.

It would be cool to see winamp have a plugin or just take the media library data and embed it into the file or give the users a choice to embed or not.

Sawg · 13th October 2007, 02:57

Album art saving options are coming in a later release. It's the first release with Album Art Support, love will take a few point releases.

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....d=278538#notes

kittmaster · 13th October 2007, 05:15

i'm sure this question was expected....but is there an estimated timeline?

Sawg · 13th October 2007, 07:26

"When it is ready."

Flegint · 13th October 2007, 08:42

Maybe this thread should be moved to the "Winamp Wishlist" forum?

chaironome · 13th October 2007, 21:13

Also, it would be nice if Winamp could be configured to display whatever jpg was in the album folder. In most of my album folders, I have a small jpg called coverart.jpg that has the album art in it. I do this so I can browse album covers with Directory Opus and they appear as CDs.

kittmaster · 13th October 2007, 22:09

Quote:

Originally posted by chaironome
Also, it would be nice if Winamp could be configured to display whatever jpg was in the album folder. In most of my album folders, I have a small jpg called coverart.jpg that has the album art in it. I do this so I can browse album covers with Directory Opus and they appear as CDs.

That is the whole point of this thread......you wouldn't have to play this stupid game......the image you want is already IMPLANTED into the mp3 itself....no more jpgs period.....

oYx · 14th October 2007, 16:38

.. and i hope that embedding a cover would replace any existing cover art in the mp3. some mp3s have many of the same cover art embedded, and it's quite a mess.

kittmaster · 14th October 2007, 16:50

Quote:

Originally posted by oYx
.. and i hope that embedding a cover would replace any existing cover art in the mp3. some mp3s have many of the same cover art embedded, and it's quite a mess.

From the apps I've seen thus far, some programs have the ability to strip all old album art first no matter how many and then replace it with the current art your adding.

The big reason it would be nice to have winamp do all this automatically is because all other programs can't do batch processing, or embedding, or album art at all.....there doesn't seem to be an automated process that is effective with the key criteria of the album art being embedded. Other apps can do it but with the jpgs which is like going round and round.....

Hopefully winamp comes through "when they can".....

kennethlee · 15th October 2007, 01:01

Sawg speaks, and I am satisfied. I'm a patient man. Can I also assume that album art saving options will also be available when I create the mp3s? (i.e.import the cd). Or is that a whole 'nother story?

Side note/thought...all of my mp3s in one main folder with filename set as Artist - Trackname ...for life! I wonder how many people still prefer this way... i wonder how it began...

Ellipsys · 18th October 2007, 01:31

I have to admit, I've gotten used to how seamless MediaMonkey makes it to embed Album art into not only MP3s and would love to see Winamp also include this feature. MediaMonkey and even the (hated) iTunes support this feature and without proper batch tagging support (including adding Album art to many tracks without having to click "ok" more than once, thank you) Winamp is lagging behind.

Jerethi · 21st October 2007, 16:30

If this feature is added to Winamp in the future, hopefully there will also be an option to automatically embed existing Cover.jpg files into the mp3s!

jim2664258 · 8th November 2007, 17:34

Quote:

Originally posted by Ellipsys
I have to admit, I've gotten used to how seamless MediaMonkey makes it to embed Album art into not only MP3s and would love to see Winamp also include this feature. MediaMonkey and even the (hated) iTunes support this feature and without proper batch tagging support (including adding Album art to many tracks without having to click "ok" more than once, thank you) Winamp is lagging behind.

iTunes will only embed the image in the mp3 file if you drag/drop the image to the file. For album art that iTunes automatically downloads, it stores it in its own database (for CoverFlow performance, I would think). This is a reason to turn off the iTunes option to automatically download album art - this way you can be sure you have the art embedded in the file.

Acidvader · 26th September 2009, 08:42

old thread but has winamp fixed up the feature to embed cover art directly into mp3 file?
i dont want to load itunes just to embed my cover art!!!!

quickest way to do embed cover art in itunes is to have firefox on one side with google image search then drag over to itunes - never have to go through agony of saving jpegs! winamp needs the same feature!!! just drag it to the album icon and it re-saves all the mp3s in that folder with the jpeg embedded! easy!! ?

Acidvader

J_Darnley · 26th September 2009, 08:59

Nope.

Entegy · 29th September 2009, 13:09

Personally, I find MP3tag is the best program to embed album art into your music. Try that

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html

wfcamb · 19th May 2011, 22:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Entegy

Personally, I find MP3tag is the best program to embed album art into your music. Try that

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html

I didn't know it also embeds the art into the file.. I thought it just changed the tag information.. I'ma hafta' look that up!

onix · 22nd May 2011, 07:18

Patiently waiting more than 5+ years, I too would like to add my support/desire to see this feature native in WinAmp.

analyst · 2nd December 2009, 12:28

Quote:

Originally posted by Acidvader
old thread but has winamp fixed up the feature to embed cover art directly into mp3 file

Is it so difficult to add this feature?

I am still switching to MediaMonkey to do this but it would be so much less hassle if Winamp could do it.

Wildrose-Wally · 3rd December 2009, 01:43

It would be less hassle also if Winamp would make my toast in the morning. That way I don't have to drag out the frikken toaster. That does not mean it is going to happen though.

Use something that is good and made for it. Read two posts above this one!!!

JonnyMac · 3rd December 2009, 10:45

Quote:

Originally posted by Wildrose-Wally
It would be less hassle also if Winamp would make my toast in the morning.

That was a part of Winamp when CD burning support was introduced. However, users starting complaining about all the crumbs building up in their CD burners, so toast support was removed in the next version of Winamp.

Omega X · 3rd December 2009, 18:11

Quote:

Originally posted by Entegy
Personally, I find MP3tag is the best program to embed album art into your music. Try that

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html

I also recommend this program. Its very easy and stable.

kittmaster · 22nd October 2010, 17:28

Any news on embedding album art? I mean it has been THREE YEARS since I last inquired.

Frolor · 25th October 2010, 01:52

Same here!!! So many media players can embed the Album Art, why can't Winamp do it?

kennethlee · 6th January 2011, 21:09

Hello. I created this thread almost four years ago. Any movement on this feature Sawg? It is sad to see every new release come out with more "features" (mostly online services I'll never use, but some good ones) but never this simple one that I know would greatly benefit every user.

Winamp has programmed to download the art, load, paste, etc, but can't get around to embedding? Is it very difficult? Or do they not the see need for the feature?

If they don't see the need (which is my assumption as it has been 4 years) then they miss one of the main powers of winamp vs all other players. Winamp doesnt hijack your organizational method, but caters to it. It also doesn't require you to use multiple other programs to get your music database and playing done.

With this one exception of course.

The ability to use Winamp to fetch text info from gracenote database, cover art (from aol?), and also DISPLAY embedded images needs to be coupled with the ability to embed it!

People who make suggestions of what programs to use in the meantime are being very helpful, but I am not asking for other programs. I want winamp to replace them, you see?

To the guy who made the joke about not expecting winamp to do everything (like not making my toast)...

I don't mean to be rude, but if you don't see this as an essential feature to winamps music database management, you are pretty clueless to the topic at hand. If you are happy using mediamonkey or somethign else for it, why don't you just go ahead and use mediamonkey to play your music? I paid for a pro version of winamp, and happily support it, but I'm a stickler about it keeping up with other players so I don't have to feel the need to swtich.

Can anyone give me an official reply as to why this feature gets shelved at every new release?

robdog2004 · 7th January 2011, 07:05

have not heard anything supporting that embed feature has been added

MrSinatra · 7th January 2011, 07:45

i don't embed art, but i don't begrudge the feature to others. however, there is something of a problem... how would winamp make clear to the user what art was folder based, and which embedded? right now, i can't tell from inside winamp which art came from where.

its a UI issue that needs to be solved prior to implementing the feature, imo.

robdog2004 · 7th January 2011, 08:42

from what i understand
embedded art takes preference

MrSinatra · 7th January 2011, 17:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by robdog2004

from what i understand
embedded art takes preference

yes i know... but what i am saying is that if you are in winamp, and you see you have art, you can't tell from inside winamp whether it is embedded or folder based. some kind of UI indication of which is being shown to you would be nice.

robdog2004 · 8th January 2011, 04:06

ok that i understand
from this point i can only recommend you recommend this in the wishlist
since the only way i know the difference is that on the newer windows systems it shows up in the icon of the music file
but i have yet to see a internal identification within winamp

kennethlee · 8th January 2011, 08:31

Some UI indication would be nice, but not necessary to have before implementing it. I can't imagine a scenario where this would be critical. If you have a standard organizational method, you probably know how your album art is, so I'm assuming you mean if you are going through lots of files you got from someone else.

If in doubt, you can use winamp to check very quickly. In the media library view, right click and choose "explore item folder" for the file in question. Is there a .jpg in there? If not, and the album is displaying, the image is embedded. If you see a .jpg in there and you wonder if it may still be embedded, try moving the .jpg and see if the image still displays.

You can also open your folder via windows and check by looking at the icon.

Winamp could implement the feature without the UI indication and make many users happy, even without the UI indication. But yes, it would be nice, and an obvious complementary feature. But I disagree it would need to be done first.

I also recommend never putting any music directly into your database until you have checked the album art method, if you are particular about it. It can save you a lot of headache to do it on a "as you receive the song" basis.

Still waiting to see if anyone can shed light on why this feature is seemingly ignored.

MrSinatra · 9th January 2011, 03:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by kennethlee

Some UI indication would be nice, but not necessary to have before implementing it. I can't imagine a scenario where this would be critical. If you have a standard organizational method, you probably know how your album art is, so I'm assuming you mean if you are going through lots of files you got from someone else.

or downloaded, p2p, paid for, etc... maybe you were just messy with your own stuff.

art itself isn't critical, but the feature is necessary to save you from having to do anything else to know whats what. i think its important to know if you are replacing an embedded artwork or just superceding a folder one, before embedding a new one for example.

by the same token, when you delete art, its nice to know first if its embedded or folder based. in my usage, i'd almost always want to delete embedded art, but how would i know? (just fyi i'd save it to the folder first once if i wanted to keep it, then delete the art from the various files)

Quote:

Originally Posted by kennethlee

If in doubt, you can use winamp to check very quickly. In the media library view, right click and choose "explore item folder" for the file in question. Is there a .jpg in there? If not, and the album is displaying, the image is embedded. If you see a .jpg in there and you wonder if it may still be embedded, try moving the .jpg and see if the image still displays.

artwork can be a hidden file, and lots of users don't know this or configure windows to show hidden files. often, its ugly to do so depending on windows ver.

regardless, forone or two files, the round-a-bout way above is fine, but it should be unnecessary and its impractical for working lots of files.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kennethlee

You can also open your folder via windows and check by looking at the icon.

Winamp could implement the feature without the UI indication and make many users happy, even without the UI indication. But yes, it would be nice, and an obvious complementary feature. But I disagree it would need to be done first.

lets just agree to request both.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kennethlee

I also recommend never putting any music directly into your database until you have checked the album art method, if you are particular about it. It can save you a lot of headache to do it on a "as you receive the song" basis.

Still waiting to see if anyone can shed light on why this feature is seemingly ignored.

it just isn't done yet. eventually i'm sure they'll get around to it. keep in mind each tagging system has its own way of doing it, and you want to be sure you do it for each one in a non-destructive, compatible way.

i'd also guess they haven't thought thru my UI indication either. with limited resources, they just haven't focused on this yet. personally, i think there are some huge issues outstanding right now that really need attention prior to this.

drmnys · 10th February 2011, 11:00

Hi everyone. Its appalling that 4 years have passed and yet the developers at Winamp have failed to include this absolute must feature to embed album art into tracks. Its as if they refuse to do it. As far as using the desktop winamp is concerned downloading and storing the album art in the music folder is fine as it shows up in winamp. But problems arise when I sync my music with my phone. No album art is synced. This is such a necessary yet trivial feature. I just dont get why it is not being included. I absolutely love winamp, always have, but this is ridiculous.

Frolor · 24th May 2011, 08:58

I still wonder why they won't do this... In the meantime, I'm still using another software *just* to embed pictures in my files.

And the transcoding tool (verified in v5.61) is broken regarding album art: if the album art is stored as folder.jpg (or cover.jpg etc) in the same folder as the files to transcode, then the transcoder does not embed the album art inside the newly created transcoded format. Basically, the album art is lost during the process...

However if the album art is already embedded inside the file to transcode (with another software of course, as Winamp cannot do it...), then transcoding the file will keep the album art embedded inside the newly transcoded file.

onix · 24th May 2011, 16:32

By "broken" maybe he means that embedding during transcoding was once working? I cannot verify since I'm now on the latest version.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frolor

...And the transcoding tool (verified in v5.61) is broken regarding album art: ...

DrO · 24th May 2011, 12:36

not copying the external album art is not a bug, it's a feature request as the transcoder has only ever been designed to copy in-tag data which external album art files aren't covered by.

-daz

csdaly · 6th September 2011, 03:39

Any movement on this yet? Or suggestions on other software that actually embed the file rather than create a seperate jpg file (WinAmp), link to a seperate file (Roxio, WinAmp 'embed' option) or create a seperate hidden file (WMA)? There seems to be some confusion over whether programs actually embed (and therefore make transportable) or not.

11th October 2007, 09:55	#1
kennethlee Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 13	album art - embedding directly into the mp3? I was happily reading over the list of improvements in 5.5 and I saw album art and decided to download. While I have a few complaints/questions one is burning most... If winamp is set to display album art that is embed into the mp3, why can it not also embed the album art into the mp3 when you use winamp to update it? As I currently see, when updating album art, Winamp plops a .jpg it got from AOL into your music folder. Any thoughts?

13th October 2007, 02:57	#5
Sawg Forum King Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 7,456	Album art saving options are coming in a later release. It's the first release with Album Art Support, love will take a few point releases. http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....d=278538#notes \| Brought to you by ^V ^C \| The one... the original... no seriously!

13th October 2007, 07:26	#7
Sawg Forum King Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 7,456	"When it is ready." \| Brought to you by ^V ^C \| The one... the original... no seriously!

26th September 2009, 08:59	#18
J_Darnley Forum King Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Belgium, Europe Posts: 3,625	Nope. Winamp ATF Reference — My cPro timer widget — My port of AVS Do NOT email me with general tech support questions.

22nd May 2011, 07:18	#21
onix Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 69	Embedding cover art Patiently waiting more than 5+ years, I too would like to add my support/desire to see this feature native in WinAmp.

11th October 2007, 10:59	#2
Flegint Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Khabarovsk, Russia Posts: 5	Absolutely agree with you. Album art embedding into the file option is the thing I really miss in this Winamp release.

11th October 2007, 14:19	#3
jgordizbak Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 15	Totally agree. We should have the option to embed album art within MP3. Also --- Winamp should auto crop all artwork so that it's square. I read the iPod won't show artwork unless the width/height is 1:1

12th October 2007, 17:56	#4
kittmaster Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: usa Posts: 9	that would be cool to see this too. I have all my MP3 in one main folder and not artist or group subfolders. All the embedded art get jumbled and messed up. It would be cool to see winamp have a plugin or just take the media library data and embed it into the file or give the users a choice to embed or not.

13th October 2007, 05:15	#6
kittmaster Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: usa Posts: 9	i'm sure this question was expected....but is there an estimated timeline?

13th October 2007, 08:42	#8
Flegint Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Khabarovsk, Russia Posts: 5	Maybe this thread should be moved to the "Winamp Wishlist" forum?

13th October 2007, 21:13	#9
chaironome Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1	Also, it would be nice if Winamp could be configured to display whatever jpg was in the album folder. In most of my album folders, I have a small jpg called coverart.jpg that has the album art in it. I do this so I can browse album covers with Directory Opus and they appear as CDs.

14th October 2007, 16:38	#11
oYx Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 10	.. and i hope that embedding a cover would replace any existing cover art in the mp3. some mp3s have many of the same cover art embedded, and it's quite a mess.

15th October 2007, 01:01	#13
kennethlee Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 13	Sawg speaks, and I am satisfied. I'm a patient man. Can I also assume that album art saving options will also be available when I create the mp3s? (i.e.import the cd). Or is that a whole 'nother story? Side note/thought...all of my mp3s in one main folder with filename set as Artist - Trackname ...for life! I wonder how many people still prefer this way... i wonder how it began...

18th October 2007, 01:31	#14
Ellipsys Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 4	I have to admit, I've gotten used to how seamless MediaMonkey makes it to embed Album art into not only MP3s and would love to see Winamp also include this feature. MediaMonkey and even the (hated) iTunes support this feature and without proper batch tagging support (including adding Album art to many tracks without having to click "ok" more than once, thank you) Winamp is lagging behind.

21st October 2007, 16:30	#15
Jerethi Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 59	If this feature is added to Winamp in the future, hopefully there will also be an option to automatically embed existing Cover.jpg files into the mp3s!

26th September 2009, 08:42	#17
Acidvader Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 1	old thread but has winamp fixed up the feature to embed cover art directly into mp3 file? i dont want to load itunes just to embed my cover art!!!! quickest way to do embed cover art in itunes is to have firefox on one side with google image search then drag over to itunes - never have to go through agony of saving jpegs! winamp needs the same feature!!! just drag it to the album icon and it re-saves all the mp3s in that folder with the jpeg embedded! easy!! ? Acidvader

29th September 2009, 13:09	#19
Entegy Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 169	Personally, I find MP3tag is the best program to embed album art into your music. Try that http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html

3rd December 2009, 01:43	#23
Wildrose-Wally The Albertan Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Sunny Southern Alberta Posts: 6,132	It would be less hassle also if Winamp would make my toast in the morning. That way I don't have to drag out the frikken toaster. That does not mean it is going to happen though. Use something that is good and made for it. Read two posts above this one!!!

22nd October 2010, 17:28	#26
kittmaster Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: usa Posts: 9	Any news on embedding album art? I mean it has been THREE YEARS since I last inquired.

25th October 2010, 01:52	#27
Frolor Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 4	Same here!!! So many media players can embed the Album Art, why can't Winamp do it?

6th January 2011, 21:09	#28
kennethlee Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 13	Hello. I created this thread almost four years ago. Any movement on this feature Sawg? It is sad to see every new release come out with more "features" (mostly online services I'll never use, but some good ones) but never this simple one that I know would greatly benefit every user. Winamp has programmed to download the art, load, paste, etc, but can't get around to embedding? Is it very difficult? Or do they not the see need for the feature? If they don't see the need (which is my assumption as it has been 4 years) then they miss one of the main powers of winamp vs all other players. Winamp doesnt hijack your organizational method, but caters to it. It also doesn't require you to use multiple other programs to get your music database and playing done. With this one exception of course. The ability to use Winamp to fetch text info from gracenote database, cover art (from aol?), and also DISPLAY embedded images needs to be coupled with the ability to embed it! People who make suggestions of what programs to use in the meantime are being very helpful, but I am not asking for other programs. I want winamp to replace them, you see? To the guy who made the joke about not expecting winamp to do everything (like not making my toast)... I don't mean to be rude, but if you don't see this as an essential feature to winamps music database management, you are pretty clueless to the topic at hand. If you are happy using mediamonkey or somethign else for it, why don't you just go ahead and use mediamonkey to play your music? I paid for a pro version of winamp, and happily support it, but I'm a stickler about it keeping up with other players so I don't have to feel the need to swtich. Can anyone give me an official reply as to why this feature gets shelved at every new release?

7th January 2011, 07:05	#29
robdog2004 Major Dude Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 843	have not heard anything supporting that embed feature has been added thanks rob (c)rob 2013 (picture & SN) (please note) As users we can't give others help unless we get full details of the problem that you are having

7th January 2011, 07:45	#30
MrSinatra Forum King Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: WKPS, State College Posts: 5,791	i don't embed art, but i don't begrudge the feature to others. however, there is something of a problem... how would winamp make clear to the user what art was folder based, and which embedded? right now, i can't tell from inside winamp which art came from where. its a UI issue that needs to be solved prior to implementing the feature, imo. PENN STATE Radio or http://www.LION-Radio.org/ -- BUG #1 = Winamp skips short tracks Wish #1 = Multiple Column Sorting Wish #2 = Add TCMP/Compilation editing

7th January 2011, 08:42	#31
robdog2004 Major Dude Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 843	from what i understand embedded art takes preference thanks rob (c)rob 2013 (picture & SN) (please note) As users we can't give others help unless we get full details of the problem that you are having

8th January 2011, 04:06	#33
robdog2004 Major Dude Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 843	ok that i understand from this point i can only recommend you recommend this in the wishlist since the only way i know the difference is that on the newer windows systems it shows up in the icon of the music file but i have yet to see a internal identification within winamp thanks rob (c)rob 2013 (picture & SN) (please note) As users we can't give others help unless we get full details of the problem that you are having

8th January 2011, 08:31	#34
kennethlee Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 13	Some UI indication would be nice, but not necessary to have before implementing it. I can't imagine a scenario where this would be critical. If you have a standard organizational method, you probably know how your album art is, so I'm assuming you mean if you are going through lots of files you got from someone else. If in doubt, you can use winamp to check very quickly. In the media library view, right click and choose "explore item folder" for the file in question. Is there a .jpg in there? If not, and the album is displaying, the image is embedded. If you see a .jpg in there and you wonder if it may still be embedded, try moving the .jpg and see if the image still displays. You can also open your folder via windows and check by looking at the icon. Winamp could implement the feature without the UI indication and make many users happy, even without the UI indication. But yes, it would be nice, and an obvious complementary feature. But I disagree it would need to be done first. I also recommend never putting any music directly into your database until you have checked the album art method, if you are particular about it. It can save you a lot of headache to do it on a "as you receive the song" basis. Still waiting to see if anyone can shed light on why this feature is seemingly ignored.

10th February 2011, 11:00	#36
drmnys Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 3	Hi everyone. Its appalling that 4 years have passed and yet the developers at Winamp have failed to include this absolute must feature to embed album art into tracks. Its as if they refuse to do it. As far as using the desktop winamp is concerned downloading and storing the album art in the music folder is fine as it shows up in winamp. But problems arise when I sync my music with my phone. No album art is synced. This is such a necessary yet trivial feature. I just dont get why it is not being included. I absolutely love winamp, always have, but this is ridiculous.

24th May 2011, 08:58	#37
Frolor Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 4	I still wonder why they won't do this... In the meantime, I'm still using another software just to embed pictures in my files. And the transcoding tool (verified in v5.61) is broken regarding album art: if the album art is stored as folder.jpg (or cover.jpg etc) in the same folder as the files to transcode, then the transcoder does not embed the album art inside the newly created transcoded format. Basically, the album art is lost during the process... However if the album art is already embedded inside the file to transcode (with another software of course, as Winamp cannot do it...), then transcoding the file will keep the album art embedded inside the newly transcoded file.

24th May 2011, 12:36	#39
DrO Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 27,873	not copying the external album art is not a bug, it's a feature request as the transcoder has only ever been designed to copy in-tag data which external album art files aren't covered by. -daz WACUP Project <‖> "Winamp Ramblings" - Indie Winamp Dev Blog

6th September 2011, 03:39	#40
csdaly Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 4	Any movement on this yet? Or suggestions on other software that actually embed the file rather than create a seperate jpg file (WinAmp), link to a seperate file (Roxio, WinAmp 'embed' option) or create a seperate hidden file (WMA)? There seems to be some confusion over whether programs actually embed (and therefore make transportable) or not.

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