Forgive the poor speling and the poor grammar. Last night was young dermot's stag party. We spent the afternoon shooting things in Wicklow. I think the reverend should have been there, he would have probably beaten us all (embarassing, sonsidering that we are a bunch of computer gaming first person fools.
July 2006 Archives
When I converted the id3 tags to v2.3 all the album art went to the correct format. Interesting issue that. By noting it here I hope that it will help someone else. iTunes has been great for this as it can convert between various tag types (from v1.1 through). I've shoved my collection to version 2.3 tags, and it seems to have solved the problem with the screwed up album art.
Let's see, a bulk change of many thousands of tracks should take all night.
Let's see, a bulk change of many thousands of tracks should take all night.
Interesting thing that Windows Media Player 11 does to the artwork on albums you possess is to place them in a cache directory under %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player\Art Cache\LocalMLS. Each one is names after a guid, which is probably generated for each track in the collection.
I'm just wondering how difficult it would have been to use a hash of the image data as it's file name, and storing the hash in the media library instead of the pointer to the guid. This way when you have duplicate images (typically 10 per album), they are not replicated into the cache of images.
The other complaint is that I've got a bunch of black album art images. It's completely odd, as they seem to be completely ok inside in the file - other tools have no difficulty in examining them, and show correct icons. Maybe I should feed this back to them - after all it's a beta of media player 11.
I'm just wondering how difficult it would have been to use a hash of the image data as it's file name, and storing the hash in the media library instead of the pointer to the guid. This way when you have duplicate images (typically 10 per album), they are not replicated into the cache of images.
The other complaint is that I've got a bunch of black album art images. It's completely odd, as they seem to be completely ok inside in the file - other tools have no difficulty in examining them, and show correct icons. Maybe I should feed this back to them - after all it's a beta of media player 11.
Here I am listening to David Bowie; hoping to hear from Finbarr 'Barry' O'Flynn, but knowing that nothing we play willl ever amount to listening him back.
We just had our fourth of july burn some food and enjoy ourselves thing. Burned animal with added spices. Just the thing on a medium-warm day like ours. Then there was the mandatory sing at the flag thing by the kids. I got one shot of Athena, but that was the extent of it.