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Album Art embedded in Vorbis files

I have read about the METADATA_PICTURE_BLOCK tag as the defined tag for proper album art embedding, in Vorbis files.
However, I can't seem to find any application that will display embedded images off Vorbis files.
Does anyone know any news about this?
Thanks.

Album Art embedded in Vorbis files

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foobar2000 can
don't know about others

Album Art embedded in Vorbis files

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I have read about the METADATA_PICTURE_BLOCK tag as the defined tag for proper album art embedding, in Vorbis files.
However, I can't seem to find any application that will display embedded images off Vorbis files.
Does anyone know any news about this?
Thanks.


I think you'll find that the deprecated/unofficial method of adding images to vorbis is also used vorbiscomment

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Unofficial COVERART field (deprecated)

There also exists an unofficial, not well supported comment field named "COVERART". It includes a base64-encoded string of the binary picture data (usually a JPEG file, but this could be a different file format too). The disadvantages are that

    * no additional information like a description about the cover art or its type (front cover, back cover etc.) is provided,
    * the cover art can't be linked
    * the base64 string is displayed within many tag editors as plain text because of their missing support for this "COVERART" field
    * it may breaks the playback on hardware players because of a large VorbisComment header


Some tagging applications I've used that are capable of adding images to vorbis use this coverart field, and others use the official method.  For example easytag uses the coverart field while mp3tag uses the official METADATA_PICTURE_BLOCK.  Each fails to recognise the images embedded using the other method    Anyway I'm using easytag and its unofficial method (no particular preference for either application or method, it's because I run Debian and rarely use Windows) and the software players and hardware devices I've used which can display embedded vorbis cover art have worked with it....so far, and so do some other tools (I convert from flac to vorbis using a gstreamer script which as well as encoding & and writing the text fields also automatically copies embedded images from the flacs to the vorbis files and that also uses the coverart field).  I didn't check what happens with mp3tag tagged vorbis because right now everything works and if it ain't broke.....

So I suspect that the coverart method, despite being unofficial and frowned upon, may actually be more useful in that you'll actually get to see the embedded images displayed instead of only having the comfort of knowing you did it right...


Album Art embedded in Vorbis files

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foobar2000 can
don't know about others


Are you sure?
It is not displaying embedded art in Vorbis files when tags are added with MP3Tag - using METADATA_PICTURE_BLOCK.

Album Art embedded in Vorbis files

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Album Art embedded in Vorbis files

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In 1.0.1 it is working...
But surely was not working previous <= 0.9.6.9


Album Art embedded in Vorbis files

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I was using 0.9.6.9 primarily because 1.0 was crashing on WINE. That's why I was caught on the trick.
I tried 1.0.1 and the crashing bug seems to be gone now.


Album Art embedded in Vorbis files

Reply #10
search for MediaInfo lite
much better than ugly GUI version

Album Art embedded in Vorbis files

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MusicBee can read and display both formats (METADATA_PICTURE_BLOCK and COVERART field) and can store the image in the officially recommended tag.
Moreover, if the tag is stored as COVERART (with no information about the cover art type, as already mentioned), if one choose a cover art type, MusicBee autamatically convert the tag in the recommended variant (with type attached), either as a link or as embedded picture.