[Fenster]

It's my understanding that most DAPs use embedded ID3 info for displaying album art. Does anybody know if there are any DAPs that can utilize seperate jpeg images for album art viewing? For instance, loading a folder onto the DAP containing the mp3 files and a saved image of the album art and having the image display while the track is playing.

 

[Cowon_1]

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Originally Posted by Fenster /img/forum/go_quote.gif It's my understanding that most DAPs use embedded ID3 info for displaying album art. Does anybody know if there are any DAPs that can utilize seperate jpeg images for album art viewing? For instance, loading a folder onto the DAP containing the mp3 files and a saved image of the album art and having the image display while the track is playing.

Yes the Cowon D2 does exactly that...and it also can display it using the ID3 tag.

 

[JesseDirks]

The Rockbox firmware supports this, it works on an awful lot of MP3 players; even iPods'!

 

[Fenster]

Thanks guys. Any others? I was hoping for maybe the Kenwood HD30GB9 or some of the archos players.

 

[LDMES]

As above Rockbox will do album art the way you ask about. Though you have to have the album art patch compiled into your version of Rockbox and all your album art needs to be a .bmp file and named cover.bmp. I used photoshop to resize all my album art (folder.jpg) to 100x100 pixels and then save as cover.bmp. So I have both folder.jpg and cover.bmp in every album folder (I use the following directory structure: \music\artist\album\song.flac).
It was a bit of work, but well worth it.

You can have a look at my updated postiing below to see my iMod with Rockbox using album art.