Re: Resolution of embedded album art
Reply #12 – 2024-04-13 09:44:33
What is your practice with album art? Do you think it matters? I don't embed album art. My practice: - find a high quality picture through Album Art Downloader if possible - I'm using Topaz Photo AI (formerly Topaz Gigapixel) to increase resolution, but also remove all jpeg artifacts, etc... It was mentioned once by a new member (here ). I tried once: there's a kind of black magic in this software. I immediately fell in love with it and I'm using it to improve all my album art pictures which were never so good. Its also very useful to increase the size of small pictures of albums that are not available on digital platforms and get decent results. The software is rather expensive: better wait for black friday sales. - I often get a 4000 to 6000 px output. I export it in lossless then convert it in JPEG-XL format, which is amazingly efficient. - The JXL file is renamed as BEST.jxl, and I'm using this file as a basis for future conversion (I'm using IrfanView on Windows which is user-friendly). Then I can easily resize & convert my album art (currently on my mobile phone: webp q75 at 1600×1600 => ~130kb on average (30kb min; 800 kb max). On my tablet, JPEG at 3000×3000, 1200 kb output. Quality is here absolutely amazing, much better than CD sleeves and far beyond streaming applications.
Wavpack Hybrid: one encoder, one encoding for all scenarios WavPack -c4.5hx6 (44100Hz & 48000Hz) ≈ 390 kbps + correction file WavPack -c4hx6 (96000Hz) ≈ 768 kbps + correction file WavPack -h (SACD & DSD) ≈ 2400 kbps at 2.8224 MHz