Cover art resizing

One of the more heated debates involving audio tags is: do you organize your files using one directory for every album and put the cover art into a single file into that album (‘folder.jpg’) or do you embed the cover art into the tags of each and every file? Myself, I embed it into all files.

  • the cover art is always with the file, no matter where I copy it to
  • I do not have to put every album into one folder
  • what about single files? You have to embed the art then since creating a folder for one single file seems…strange.

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Digital audio players: iTunes

ITunes

Note: this article was originally posted on April 11th, 2007. Some of the mentioned extensions are no longer compatible with later iTunes versions.

Why?

ITunes is Apple’s audio player with versions for both Mac and PC. You can say a lot of things about it:

  • It always seems to ‘know better’
  • It is limited in supported playback formats
  • It feels a bit slow

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