Re: Re: Playback an album

Hello Richard,

It sounds like your player, like many, won’t assume that a JPEG image in the folder is album art. 

What you need to do is embed the album art in each FLAC file you rip.  I believe that adding this to your FLAC external command line may do the trick:

%hascover%--picture="%coverfile%"%hascover%

That tells EAC to embed the album art if it exists. 

Regards,
  Fred Maxwell
  Moderator, Exact Audio Copy Yahoogroup

> On Jun 14, 2018, at 11:53 AM, 'Richard Heuston' [email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi Fred,
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> Point taken about FLAC.
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> I have been messing around since getting your email below, and feel that I still must be getting something very simple wrong.
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> I take it that you have a music collection stored on your PC in a folder or in a media program, and when you open this folder to see what you want to play, you see albums covers with Album title and Artist, and when clicked on show the tracks in the album. If you click on track one your music player plays back the album.  I now have achieved doing all of the above with the exception of the album cover art work showing. A Jpeg of the album cover is in the album folder at the bottom of the tracks list, but what use is it if it doesn’t show up on the folder icon? Am I supposed to do something with the jpeg or am I not using the correct playback program? I’m a long way off getting my 500+ collection onto my NAS drive until I sort this out.
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> From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
> Sent: 11 June 2018 11:01 PM
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> Subject: Re: [EAC] Re: Playback an album
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> Hello Richard,
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> Unless you have a very specific need for WMA9 Lossless, I’d recommend ripping to FLAC, which has much wider support than WMA9 lossless.  FLAC is royalty-free and is an open format with much wider support.  
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> By contrast, WMA9 is proprietary and has never been publicly documented by Microsoft -- WMA9 Lossless decoders are based on reverse engineering.  Windows Media Audio is a mess;  see:  http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-windows-media-audio.htm <http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-windows-media-audio.htm>
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>   Fred Maxwell
>   Moderator, Exact Audio Copy Yahoogroup
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>> On Jun 11, 2018, at 2:18 PM, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [EAC] <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>> I am setup for external program for compression, but I am using Microsoft WMA9 Encoder with bit rate set to Lossless as I want a perfect copy of the CD. Program path and additional command-line options are blank. As I said in my original post al the tracks from the CD go into the music folder is the NAS drive, but not as an album.
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