External Album Art for Individual Tracks?

[nmkaufman 50]

Now that Emby supports per-track album art, can I take advantage of this without actually embedding album art in my music files?

I'd like to start adding art to some of my non-album tracks, which are all in a massive folder together.

Is there a naming convention for art stored next to the tracks? Or can one be added in the future?

I tried naming the cover the same as the track, but it was ignored.

 

[Carlo 4561]

Hi, you would want to embed the art right into the tracks themselves with a tool such as mp3tag.

[Happy2Play 9784]

To my knowledge no, you have one image that covers the entire album.

Image Type	Supported file names
Primary	folder.ext
	poster.ext
	cover.ext
	default.ext
Art	clearart.ext
Backdrop	backdrop.ext, backdropX.ext
	fanart.ext, fanart-X.ext
	background.ext, background-X.ext
	art.ext, art-X.ext
	extrafanart (subfolder)/fanartX.ext
Banner	banner.ext
Disc	disc.ext
	cdart.ext
Logo	logo.ext
Thumb	thumb.ext
	landscape.ext

[nmkaufman 50]

That's what I suspected.

I tried adding art to a single track through the UI, and it didn't save the art anywhere externally. It did work, but I can't back it up or share it with friends that way.

I don't necessarily object to embedding art for individual tracks/singles. It's just a nuisance having to reconfigure my tagger each time.

I'm not sure I care enough about art for singles to retag my existing collection, I was just thinking I'd flesh it out a bit if external files worked.

Perhaps, one day?

Edited June 24, 2021 by nmkaufman

[Luke 42085]

They're correct, not currently supported for audio files, but possible for the future.