Amarok and covers in id3 tags

[Dennis Neumeier]

Hello all,

I spent quite some work in including covers directly in the id3 tags of all my 
songs. I do that so far with a Mac (with iTunes and coverscout). Now, I 
started to use Amarok (again) and I like it. But: when I copy songs from my 
iPod (classic, 160GB), it does not recognize the stored covers.

Moreover, Amarok has an own cover manager, but in version 2.2.0 (Kubuntu 
9.10), this is not really useful for me: When I tell Amarok to fetch the not 
available covers, it does nothing. But when I right-click on an album without 
cover, it correctly fetches it (if Amarok can find it). So automatic fetching 
does not work for me.

Over all, I am aware that cover management is some kind of difficult area. 
Amarok stored the covers somewhere in the filesystem itself which is perfectly 
okay if you do not make backups of the mp3 collection. Unfortunately, I am one 
of these people who like making backups - as I use my collection on several 
systems ( Linux / Windows  / Mac). So storing the covers directly in the id3 
tags of the songs is taking more space, but it is the best solution for me.

Does anybody see another possibility? Or will covers in id3 tages be supported 
in a future version of Amarok?

Regards,
Michael

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