How do they do that?

[promytius 1]

Naming manual says:

"Music Images - Images are supported in both artist and album folders, as well as images embedded within audio files."

 

How can you possibly embed an image in an audio file?

 

Thanks.

[jasonmcroy 316]

Musicbrainz is one example of a program you can use to embed images into music files.

[promytius 1]

thanks, but that was a"program that can do that" answer; I was more interested in how a visual image can be embedded in an audio file; the formats don't seem compatible. HOW exactly does that software do it?

I have that program Musicbrainz Picard, and it is good at many things but is terrible at renaming multiple file batches of mp3s, all needing numbering, but the process is so clunky, it is almost as slow as manually changing them.

Thanks. I will definitely try that program on some of my own audio tracks - that would be a kick to see an image appear when I play them!

[jasonmcroy 316]

Ah, I see. Yeah, I don't know the answer to the HOW. It is pretty cool though to be able to see your images pop up when listening to music. It does the same thing on my phone when I use my music player app (not the emby player) there.

[cyr 1]

It's part of the metadata that can be stored in many audio formats (just like song title, artist, album name etc).

 

e.g: http://id3.org/id3v2.3.0#Attached_picture

[ebr 16199]

Its all just 1's and 0's in the end .

[naeonline 27]

Try mp3tag if you don't like picard. Also mediamonkey is pretty good.

[promytius 1]

Cyr, you totally scored an A! That was a perfect reference; I did not know you could do that. Way cool!

Thanks for your replies!