A Tip for Those With Album Art Troubles

I just got my M6 in the mail and have been loading it up with songs... The only problem I have had with it is getting all my albums to display their album art.

I was having a tricky situation because it would work for some albums but not for others.

Then I found the solution:
Please note: this solution assumes that your ID3 tags are able to be read by the M6 (I read a thread about someone with an M3 that had trouble with his reading the ID3 tags, so this may be a non-issue).

step 1)
Put your music album in the MUSIC file. (I like separating it further into Artist/Album/)

step2)
Add your Album Art to the same folder you added
the album. Naming it the same as the name of the Album as it appears in the ID3 tag of your music plus a ".jpg" at the end (This method has been proven by many posters; though I believe that there is a minimum firmware that this works with)


step3)
Check and make sure that the file that the Album is under does not EXACTLY match the name of the jpeg that you just added. If it does the image will not display. I recommend adding the year the album was issued or removing a letter or space to make the name just a little different.

I hopes this helps someone... I didn't see it anywhere in my searches of the forum. Though I could not search that far with the one search every 60 seconds policy that is in place.

-Gulp35

Also make sure your album-art names and ID3 tags do not contain invalid characters like : or / and \

I place mine in 1 subfolder under MUSIC. Like:

MINIPLAYER:\MUSIC\LINKIN PARK - MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT\<all music and album art>

Originally Posted by gulp35

step3)
Check and make sure that the file that the Album is under does not EXACTLY match the name of the jpeg that you just added. If it does the image will not display. I recommend adding the year the album was issued or removing a letter or space to make the name just a little different.

Thanks! This has solved the problem I was having with my album art!
My music player, amarok, automaticcaly named everything after ID3-tags.

greetz
mfb

Thanks man,

but still not working for me I have fw S2.003.2

My music is stored in x:\MUSIC\Depeche Mode\Violator
Album art is x:\MUSIC\Depeche Mode\Violator\Violator.jpg
ID3 in Album field contains Violator

I have no x:\Albums folder

What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions?
Thank you

Should be nothing wrong... looks right

Just try this first, and see if it works:

Place music in x:\MUSIC\Depeche Mode - Violator
Album Art in x:\MUSIC\Depeche Mode - Violator\Violator.jpg
ID3 of album named Violator

And also try to make the filesize of the album art smaller, around 100x100 if you can to speed up the display.

Originally Posted by iversonjack

Should be nothing wrong... looks right

Just try this first, and see if it works:

Place music in x:\MUSIC\Depeche Mode - Violator
Album Art in x:\MUSIC\Depeche Mode - Violator\Violator.jpg
ID3 of album named Violator

And also try to make the filesize of the album art smaller, around 100x100 if you can to speed up the display.

Thanks, iversonjack, I know this works, but I was wondering if there is another way, like the guy in the first post mentioned - he likes storing it as \MUSIC\Artist\Album and so do I, and he says he has album art working for him. So I am curious how... 'cause I don't like to have ten folders named \MUSIC\Depeche Mode - album, if you understand me...

But I really appreciate your help, thanks:-)

P.S.: I hope, Meizu will make better Album Art support (deeper folder structure or using ID3 tags) in the next firmware release.

Originally Posted by smidliboy

Thanks man,

but still not working for me I have fw S2.003.2

My music is stored in x:\MUSIC\Depeche Mode\Violator
Album art is x:\MUSIC\Depeche Mode\Violator\Violator.jpg
ID3 in Album field contains Violator

I have no x:\Albums folder

What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions?
Thank you

It won't work because the foldername is exactly the same as the album name in the ID3 tag. I had this very same problem, and fixed it bij renaming the folders with and -1 at the end, or some other random character.

greetz
mfb

I just copy name of album from foobar and paste when renaming "album_art".jpg, I never had problems with it. Twice, I must to rename ".jpeg" to ".jpg", that's all x)

Originally Posted by mfb

It won't work because the foldername is exactly the same as the album name in the ID3 tag. I had this very same problem, and fixed it bij renaming the folders with and -1 at the end, or some other random character.

greetz
mfb

Yep, you're right, many thanks to you:-)
That's a very stupid implementation of album art, anyway...

I don't understand the problem people are having with album art. Put the USB mode to MTB and sync it with Windows Media Player. Hey presto ! All the album art you could want.