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freeware comparable to dbpoweramp music converter?

Reply #25 –
Quote from: funkyblue on
I got the impression the OP wanted to copy the WHOLE tag including Album Art.


Even then does it make sense to pay $36 when there are freeware alternatives available? I'm sure a simple batch job with mp3tag can copy ALL tags after converting the files with the stock binaries.

freeware comparable to dbpoweramp music converter?

Reply #26 –
I was only suggesting it as an option. IMO It makes life easy to mass convert files and copy all the tags.

freeware comparable to dbpoweramp music converter?

Reply #27 –
Quote from: funkyblue on
I got the impression the OP wanted to copy the WHOLE tag including Album Art.


Placing album art in individual MP3s, especially when ripped as several files per disc, is quite wasteful, as the art is reproduced for each album unless some other technique is used to solve that redundancy. Just because ID3v2 can handle it does not mean it belongs there.

When you consider the size of some of the scans that people include (I've seen scans in the MBs), that can add significant bloat to a rip.

There's no one universal way to handle album art at the moment. The best way that I can see is to toss the scans as files in the folder with your music, but that's hard to automate.

freeware comparable to dbpoweramp music converter?

Reply #28 –
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Just because ID3v2 can handle it does not mean it belongs there.


I think the rest of the world would disagree with that statement, times move on and 60K for album art is nothing (500x500 as jpg). 15 tracks = 900KB when the mp3s themselves might takeup 30MB.

freeware comparable to dbpoweramp music converter?

Reply #29 –
Quote from: spoon on
I think the rest of the world would disagree with that statement, times move on and 60K for album art is nothing (500x500 as jpg). 15 tracks = 900KB when the mp3s themselves might takeup 30MB.
Just because your software supports it does not make it any less a waste of space, nor does it mean that your statement is anything more than your opinion. I'm not about to get into a flame war about this.

1024x1024 PNG comes to what, 0.5MB? And that's not even on the large end, especially considering some scans that I've seen people use with albums. 500x500 JPG is not archival grade. 300DPI scans of the 12cm x 12cm cd covers work out to roughly 1440 x 1440 pixels in size, and that's not even considering the case of vinyl scans, nor the case of more image data than just the cover.

If you're concerned with doing things properly, stuffing that data inside an ID3v2 tag for each file is silliness. Maybe if you were ripping to one-file-per-album that would be sensible, but even one-file-per-disc is redundant in many cases.

freeware comparable to dbpoweramp music converter?

Reply #30 –
Quote from: spoon on
I think the rest of the world would disagree with that statement, times move on and 60K for album art is nothing (500x500 as jpg). 15 tracks = 900KB when the mp3s themselves might takeup 30MB.


Even Apple have back tracked on this one, they used to embed album art into each file, however more recent versions of iTunes keep one copy separately rather than embedding it.

freeware comparable to dbpoweramp music converter?

Reply #31 –
Quote from: chelgrian on
Even Apple have back tracked on this one, they used to embed album art into each file, however more recent versions of iTunes keep one copy separately rather than embedding it.
Actually, that's partially incorrect.  If you add your own art manually via iTunes (like dropping an image in the "drag album artwork here" box), it's stored in each file.  All iTunes Store purchases also include lightly compressed 600 x 600 Album Art... yes, in each file.

The only album art not stored in the file is the art used if you ask iTunes to "find Album Art" all by itself when none exists... and that was a relatively "new feature."
 

freeware comparable to dbpoweramp music converter?

Reply #32 –
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If you're concerned with doing things properly


Rest assured album art is done propperly, if you wish it can be written to folder.jpg only, or both (internal external), or internal only. We even have utitlity codecs to import and export folder.jpg batch style.

Apples reasons I am sure are ones of not allowing the album art to be used outside of iTunes <> iPod.