![]() ![]() ![]() Quite an exhaustive list, and while a single MP3 file could embed all of the above images, in practice only one image is ever usually embedded. $07 – Lead artist/lead performer/soloist.The full list of different images that can be embedded are: The ID3 standard is very flexible with regards to the type and number of images that can be embedded in a MP3 single file. Practically speaking JPEG images have been adopted as the de facto standard in this respect. While the ID3v2 tag standard allows any type of image to be embedded in an MP3 file, it does advise that either PNG or JPEG formats should be used when interoperability with playback devices is required. If you’re not familiar with ID3 tags, you may find my previous article on What are ID3 tags in MP3 files? helpful. ID3 tags allow you to store additional information within your MP3 files such as the track title, artist name and even album art. To include such extra information in an MP3 track, tag data is usually added to the beginning or end of the audio file in ID3 format. So, before you start cutting and pasting huge graphics and adding them into your collection of MP3 tracks, what do you need to consider to avert potential disaster?Ī standard MP3 file only contains audio data, with no additional information about the artist or type of audio contained within it. However, it wasn’t until version 2 of the protocol became available that MP3 files could actually contain embedded album art. While MP3 files were not originally intended to store additional metadata within them, the release of the ID3 tag protocol in 1996 suddenly made this a possibility. However, before you start filling up all of your MP3 files with works of art, there are a few things that you should stop to consider first. nicamoq (Stripe.P Remix)"), the results seem pretty normal.Album art can be embedded into MP3 files fairly easily using ID3 tags. Tried searching this track in iTunes on a third party website (query of "銀河鉄道のペンギン ft. Only the iTunes Store source returned that creepy one. I reproduced the problem with different online cover source by adding a Cover.png, rescanning cover art in "tags (2)", deleting it and restarting MusicBee. + at least the first 30 results on google images don't contain the wrong cover displayed, and the first result is exactly the embedded cover art. nicamoq (Stripe.P Remix)" on last.fm have no thumbnail and the "photos" section in the first track returned is correct + couldn't find a way to access iTunes Store directly from my browser, but why would iTunes return that cover for a totally irrelevant track? Now the problem itself is solved (kind of), but that still doesn't explain the wrong image: my cover lookup source in "tags (2)" is "1. And maybe MusicBee tried to retrieve the cover from the internet, but got the creepy image instead. I���D��� ��� ���H���U���H � ' � �� A8 Ĭombined with the effect of rescanning, broken link to filesystem image is likely to be the cause. If I remembered correctly, I once "fixed" a wav file's cover by converting it to flac (do wavs have a platform-independent tagging system anyway?) Last log is on 2 and is about "dead file link removed".ĭid a reverse image search on some random site (Google Images 400'd me, so :P) and "no results found". maybe not, but in that case this report can't be more detailed either.Įrror log contains no useful information. The description above should have covered the reproduction. )įor this file, if I right click on the cover and select "image 2" (?) the cover will be temporarily corrected:īut after switching to another song and switch back a "no cover art" placehold would be displayed shortly:Īnd in a few seconds, back to that mysterious spooky image we go. (the original file can be downloaded here ( soundcloud link). This image keeps being displayed instead of the album art randomly (but only for the same set of files): Windows 10 Professional (4.228), zh-CN (Simplified Chinese) with system fallback encoding CP936 not critical, but kind of creepy when you see a weird image instead of the embedded album art in the middle of the night. This bug has been occuring for quite a while (at least for 3+ months).
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