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.mp3 tags & artwork help

When I add some artwork to an mp3 in iTunes, all is well until I open the same mp3 in Winamp 5.5 and there is no artwork?!

mp3s that I have purchased have artwork that shows in both iTunes & Winamp, what program did they use to add the artwork?

Also when I use EAC to rip to mp3s the file reports in iTunes that I used LAME3.97 for the encoder but Winamp doesn't show any details for the encoder (just blank space)?

Can anyone shed any light on what's happening, where I'm going wrong and what I should be doing?

.mp3 tags & artwork help

Reply #1 –
The default (now) in itunes is to add art not to the tag itself but to an ITUNES library subdirectory. That's why ITUNES can show the art, but it doesn't show up elsewhere.  There is no option to change this behavior, but you can get around it by doing the following:

1. right click on the artwork in itunes and then select "copy"
2. highlight all the song files within the album and right click "get info"
3. Then in the artwork section, paste the artwork.

With these options, the artwork is now added to the file tags themselves and will show up in any program that reads artwork from tags (winamp, foobar2000, etc.).  p.s. the reason your purchased mp3's show in both programs is that the artwork is already in the tag (purchases from amazon for example).  However, if you purchase from ITUNES, you'll still need to add the artwork to the AAC tags just as I've noted above.

.mp3 tags & artwork help

Reply #2 –
mmmm ok I seem to have got myself into a tangle! First I tried what you suggested but still no show in Winamp so I added the Artwork in Winamp but now the mp3s don't play in iTunes!!!

Help!

What's happening with the tags, does winamp use a different tagging method than itunes? If so which is best?
Or should I be tagging in another program?

.mp3 tags & artwork help

Reply #3 –
hmmm. this is very odd. tagging shouldn't affect the ability to play. When you say they don't play, what do you mean. That itunes can't find the file, or that is gives some sort of error message, or what?  Be very specific here. I don't use winamp, but check it's options to make sure that you are saving the files with ID3V2 tags (either ID3V2.3 or ID3V2.4, although with itunes you'll be safer with ID3V2.3).  Perhaps you're telling WINAMP to save the files with another type tag that bothers itunes.  Do the mp3 files play in, for example, windows media player? How about in foobar2000.  Also, try simply removing the files from your itunes library (but don't send to recycle bin) and then add the files back to itunes to see if that makes any difference.

Quote from: chri5 on
mmmm ok I seem to have got myself into a tangle! First I tried what you suggested but still no show in Winamp so I added the Artwork in Winamp but now the mp3s don't play in iTunes!!!

Help!

What's happening with the tags, does winamp use a different tagging method than itunes? If so which is best?
Or should I be tagging in another program?



EDIT: FYI, I just installed Winamp 5.5 to test (out of curiosity regarding your problem). MP3 files I've encoded with LAME 3.97 with artwork added within ITUNES work just fine in both ITUNES and WINAMP. The art shows in both programs. Also plays (and shows artwork) in Windows Media Player.  Within WINAMP select the file, right click and then "view file info" and you can see the tags and the artwork info.
 

.mp3 tags & artwork help

Reply #4 –
The files appear in iTunes, I can highlight them and get their info but when I press play nothing happens with the files I've tagged/added artwork in Winamp.

The files don't play in windows media player either!

.mp3 tags & artwork help

Reply #5 –
so they play OK in winamp, but not in either itunes or WMP. Correct?  This is very odd unless you have accidentally set winamp to convert these mp3 files to a different format that can't be played by itunes or wmp (e.g., flac, shn, etc.).  Are you sure that these files are still mp3 files. What about removing and readding files to itunes. Did this change anything?  Keep in mind that files can appear in itunes, but no longer exist, because they've been moved to a different location. Perhaps winamp saved these changed files into a different location than your original location. What error does WMP give you. Can you see the files within WMP but simply not play them there.  You need to be a little more specific on these items.

Quote from: chri5 on
The files appear in iTunes, I can highlight them and get their info but when I press play nothing happens with the files I've tagged/added artwork in Winamp.

The files don't play in windows media player either!

.mp3 tags & artwork help

Reply #6 –
It's ok, I ended up loading foobar, highlighting the offending files and stripped out all tagging/header data. Then they worked!

It seems Winamp or itunes in my haste to get artwork to show in both must have corrupted the headers/tags.

Panic over!

.mp3 tags & artwork help

Reply #7 –
Perfect. Not sure what happened, but if you are (1) ripping with EAC, (2) converting to MP3 with Lame, (3) adding artwork with some other program (winamp, itunes, etc.), mp3 files should play (and display art) just fine in winamp, itunes, WMP, and foobar (assuming you're using foobar2000 0.9.5beta for artwork display).

I suggest you consider mp3tag to add artwork rather than the multistep procedure I mentioned with itunes. Then the artwork is embedded in file for any purpose.

.mp3 tags & artwork help

Reply #8 –
strip artwork
go itunes download artwork
use itsv http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...lease_id=552682 to fetch artwork from itunes and put it into folder
use a capable mp3 tagging tool to scan folder to artwork.jpg and import automatically into that folders mp3s or do it manually depending on your skills, folder structure etc.

for albums that have no artwork in itunes google is your friend


i done this for 60GB worth of music took me a while but all my mp3s are tagged and have album art from itunes = high quality.


never had issues

.mp3 tags & artwork help

Reply #9 –
I use MP3Tag to add album art to my MP3s. Haven't touched Winamp in ages, but the artwork shows just fine in iTunes and ought to in Winamp since it's embedded in the MP3 files themselves.

.mp3 tags & artwork help

Reply #10 –
Quote from: NeoRenegade on
I use MP3Tag to add album art to my MP3s. Haven't touched Winamp in ages, but the artwork shows just fine in iTunes and ought to in Winamp since it's embedded in the MP3 files themselves.

I can say you are absolutely right, because I have tested this method myself

Tag or Re-tag the files using Mp3tag, and they play and display album arts just fine in iTunes, Winamp, foobar2000, WMP, and Windows Explorer, on my system.