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diff --git a/manual/appendix/album_art_info.tex b/manual/appendix/album_art_info.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0e8f692e3d --- /dev/null +++ b/manual/appendix/album_art_info.tex @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +\chapter{\label{ref:album_art}Album Art} +Rockbox allows you to put the album art, or another image related to the music +on your \dap{} to display it in the PictureFlow plugin\opt{albumart}{ or in the +theme}. For this feature to work, there are a few requirements. + +\section{Limitations} + +\opt{albumart}{% + Rockbox supports embedded album art only for some specific formats, see + \reference{ref:featureset_for_generic_metadata_tags} for full details. It additionally + supports loading images located on the \disk{}. PictureFlow is currently unable to + use embedded album art. +}% +\nopt{albumart}{% + Rockbox currently only supports loading images located on the + \disk{} for use in PictureFlow. +}% +The image files must be in either BMP or JPEG format\opt{albumart}{, while embedded +album art is currently limited to JPEG. Embedded JPEG images must not be +unsynchronized}. Rockbox does not support RLE-compressed BMP files, nor does it +support progressive and multi-scan JPEG files. +JPEG files must consist of a single scan with interleaved components, +as progessive and multi-scan images require much more memory to decode. + +\section{Where to put album art} + +The pictures can be named a number of different ways, and placed to a number of +different locations. You can have pictures specific to the file or the album +or use a generic picture. You can place the picture in the same directory +as the file, in the parent directory or in a fixed directory named +\fname{/.rockbox/albumart/}. The order Rockbox uses when looking for a picture +is as follows (a list in braces means that those file extensions are tried in +that order): + +\begin{enumerate} +\item embedded (JPEG images in ID3v2 or MP4 tags only) +\item \fname{./filename.\{jpeg,jpg,bmp\}} +\item \fname{./albumtitle.\{jpeg,jpg,bmp\}} +\item \fname{./cover.\{jpeg,jpg,bmp\}} +\item \fname{./folder.jpg} +\item \fname{/.rockbox/albumart/albumartist-albumtitle.\{jpeg,jpg,bmp\}} +\item \fname{../albumtitle.\{jpeg,jpg,bmp\}} +\item \fname{../cover.\{jpeg,jpg,bmp\}} +\end{enumerate} + +The following characters will be replaced with an underscore (\_) when looking +for albumtitle.bmp or albumartist-albumtitle.bmp: \textbackslash{} / : < +> ? * |. Doublequotes will be replaced by single quotes. +If no album artist is set, artist will be used instead. See \wikilink{AlbumArt} +in the wiki for programs that will help you automate the process of putting +album art on your \dap{}. |