Music library preparation clarification

I'm trying to get all my music files (mp3, flac, ogg) in order with proper tags and names before the M6 SE comes out.

Now, I've seen that album art embedded in ID3v2 tag can cause problems if it is before title/artist/album/track #. Now, I was wondering if you can still have the album art as long as it is at the end of ID3v2 tag? If so, how do you check? I use Tag&Rename which I believe puts it at end, but I want to be sure before I start tagging 100 or so albums only to find out you shouldn’t have it at all. Otherwise, I'll just strip it out completely.

Does M6 allow for character symbols like apostrophe, dash and ampersand in ID3 tag names as well as file names? Just good to know to remove before hand.

The way I sort my music is that I have the folder with artist and album title, so like "Greenday - Dookie". Then inside all album tracks named/ordered like so, "00 - Green Day - Dookie.m3u", "01 - Burnout.mp3", et cetera. Also, inside the folder is a separate album art jpg called "DookieGreen Day.jpg".

The album art is named the same way according to this thread:

Code:

http://www.meizume.com/showthread.php?t=1200

However, I am not sure whether or not it is acceptable to have spaces in the album name or artist name. It is labeled with the same case and spelling as the ID3 tags artist name and album title. Also, what is a good dimension to size the album art? I was thinking of just doing 200x200 but do they have to be a fixed size or can they vary. Say, one is 200x200 then another is 198x196.

For the playlists (m3u), do I need to make them relative to the folder for M6 say like “*/ Greenday – Dookie/01 - Burnout.mp3"? Right now, they don’t have any path information.

I think thats it, cheers.

edit: Missed this thread: Got it. This is how to use Album Art!

I may organize music like that (artist > album) so thats good to know.