Re: [Gtkpod-devel] Re: Cover Artwork

[Francois I. <isa...@sy...>]

Jorg Schuler a écrit :

>Hi!
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>> I just got a 30GB video ipod!
>> And I was pleased to see that Apple was kind enough or smart enough to
>> keep there product line compatible enough from generation to
>> generation, so I was pleased to see this great gtkpod application
>> working on this recent model, thanks to all the developpers.
>> 
>> I whish I could join the developpers, but I have not enough spare time
>> at the moment...
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>> Anyway I ran into a problem with album artwork support
>> My collection has the artwork embedded in the id3tags and iTunes was
>> used for an initial import on the iPod, so artwork was displayed.
>> 
>> After I updated my iPod from gtkpod I lost the artwork.
>>  I'm now able to restore it using gtkpod to "add cover" ,
>>  I'ld like to get this automated, using the embedded artwork images,
>>  is this possible at this time ? Otherwise, it would be a cool feature
>>  to add.
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>gtkpod/libgpod should read artwork added by iTunes to the database (ithmb
>files). Therefore I do not understand why your artwork got lost when using
>gtkpod to first read and then write the iTunesDB. All artwork present before
>should still be present afterwards. Can you confirm in more detail what you
>did?
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>gtkpod does not read artwork stored in file tags. Yes, it would be a nice
>feature, but since I don't know how that works, I'll be waiting for a patch
>:-)
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>Cheers,
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>JCS.
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Well, first I might have been using 0.94.0-1 (ubuntu) for the initial
sync, I don't know if that explains
anything,  I remember seing and Artwork related message  (which I still
see on some files (maybe the couple of files I've been adding artwork
manually : )
** (gtkpod:6142): WARNING **: iTunesDB and ArtworkDB artwork sizes
inconsistent (125329+2 != 125330)
   
I must say that some 3rdparty windows iPod application lead to same
results, at that time I used iTunes check box "display cover atwork" to
recover them by unchecking it, apply changes then checking it
again(iTunes displayed status information "optimizing artwork" or
something like that.

So I don't have anymore details, I may try to experiment a bit to see
how reproducible it is  ...

With all the work done on artwork, I guess I may be able to reuse the
code to sync artwork using id3tags, gtkpod/libgpod already builds
against it anyways...

I'll try to evaluate the work required, and see if I can submit some
patches ..

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>> By the way video support works fine with the CVS version
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>CVS right now is identical to release 0.99.2 / 0.3.0.
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It's weird that the build system didn't rerun automake when I synced
with CVS ,the "about" box  still
displayed 0.96 until I manual ran "automake". Well it's ok I guess.


Bye
Frank

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