gregmacc 22 Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 I have a Camebridge Audio CXN (V2) network player and I am trying to play album files controlled by their free Android phone app. I'm loading my albums (mainly FLAC filles) onto a USB hard drive using the recommended library structure. I'm using MP3TAG to check and occasionally re-organize the metadata in the album files. Initially things were going well and I managed to get 5 albums loaded to the HDD plugged it into the Camebridge player and everything worked perfectly from the Android app. Most of the albums have embedded album art in the files and everything loads, displays and plays perfectly. I have managed to pull in cover artwork from various sources for some albums and add it to the files without issue. But ... I have a Joni Mitchell folder with 2 separate sub folders containing the tracks for 2 of her albums ... Hejira and Wild Things Run Fast. I have attempted to provide cover art jpgs for both albums. Everything seems to look correct in MP3TAG (but obviously it's not). The albums can be found and displayed on the app ... tracks play in the correct sequence ... but no cover art for the albums or the individual tracks. What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated. Screenshot (3)1920×1200 140 KB IMG_46313648×5472 2.27 MB IMG_46323648×5472 2.33 MB Link to post Share on other sites
Dan Gravell 12 Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 As described here https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2015/06/10/cambridge-audio-851N-CXN-album-art/ ... if you are using USB storage it used to be (it might have changed) that a Folder.jpg was used in preference to embedded art. Do you have a Folder.jpg? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
GregWormald 1,836 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 My player (Amarra on a Mac) has difficulties with any non-jpeg files and anything not embedded in the individual tracks. Link to post Share on other sites
gregmacc 22 Posted February 26 Author Share Posted February 26 Thanks Dan and Greg ... I've just popped in here to have a quick look and greatly appreciate your responses ... I can't try your suggestions right now but definitely will ... and return here with the results. Cheers guys. Link to post Share on other sites
kiwimeat 34 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Another thing to consider is the resolution of the album art. Too high and it may not display as well. I've had a few older devices in the past that could not handle a resolution over 600x600 - either embedded in the file or as external image file. Oh just remembered another possible thing. Check that any embedded album art is actually correctly tagged as the 'Front Album Cover'. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
gregmacc 22 Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 thanks Kiwimeat ... resolution doesn't seem to be a issue ... other albums behaving properly have cover art at 1400X1400. All album art is tagged as Front Album cover. Link to post Share on other sites
Brett1968 10 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 It might also be the image file type and encoding. ie. jpg, png, colour depth etc. If you open the files with some image editing software you should be able to see and compare the files that display with the ones that don't. Link to post Share on other sites
gregmacc 22 Posted February 28 Author Share Posted February 28 thanks Brett1968 ... will look into it ... Link to post Share on other sites
gregmacc 22 Posted March 7 Author Share Posted March 7 (edited) On 26/02/2021 at 3:27 AM, Dan Gravell said: ... if you are using USB storage it used to be (it might have changed) that a Folder.jpg was used in preference to embedded art. Do you have a Folder.jpg? Thanks so much for this Dan and apologies for taking so long to get back here. As you suggested, I had omitted to include the album art jpg inside the folder containing the album music files. All is good now that I have done so. It doesn't seem to matter how the jpg is named ... as long as it has the jpg extension. Interestingly, and possibly why it didn't occur to me initially, I have several albums on the drive that don't have the jpg inside the album music folder and the album art is still displayed!? - So something else is going on. Edited March 7 by gregmacc Link to post Share on other sites
Dan Gravell 12 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Hmmm, not sure about that. Are you sure the artwork isn't embedded? And are you sure there are really no image files in those folders? Remember the old Windows system file problem: https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2012/02/01/removing-windows-folder-jpg-system/ Link to post Share on other sites
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