Arghhh Album Art

**strohj** · 05-23-2006, 10:40 AM

not neccessarily.. frodo player will look for a jpeg in the folder and use that... if the mp3 doesnt have album art embedded

**ayclens** · 05-23-2006, 10:53 AM

Hrm I know that I have had to embed the art into each file to get it to work correctly. I wonder why...

**strohj** · 05-23-2006, 10:56 AM

in settings 1 (i think) you tell frodoplayer the name of the jpeg that it needs to look for...

**proph** · 05-24-2006, 09:09 PM

I only use the Brightlife skin. As I stated before it works in WMP. Seems like I wasn't the only one to have the problem (Jackboot did too). I'll install it on my laptop to see if I get the same result.

**strohj** · 05-24-2006, 09:40 PM

ok thats great... Jackboot is also having this problem WITH THE BIRGHTLIFE SKIN

therefore.. try another damn skin.. and once we can confirm it is the skin.. then we can look at how to fix the skin...

**proph** · 05-24-2006, 11:05 PM

... done w/ your hissy stroj? Well its using any file named 'album_art.jpg' in the Brightlife/skin/album art folder. I was able to change the default file. Is there a file to change the default location of album art? I would think it would use the default music directory.

**proph** · 05-26-2006, 06:23 AM

Anybody?

**ergman** · 05-27-2006, 12:25 AM

I had the same problem. For some stupid reason when I ripped my albums to MP3 my ripping software put read only, hidden, and system file attributes on the albumart.jpg file. when I checked the properties of the file the Read only and Hidden check boxes are grayed out and I cannot change them. Anyways what I did as a temporary solution is open the albumart.jpg file in MS Paint and resave the file as art.jpg. the art.jpg file will not have read only, hidden, or system file attributes associated with it. Now you have to go into setting 2 > Misc 3 and change the album art file name to art.jpg in FP.

This was the fix for me. Anyhow that isn't going to work considering I have nearly a thousand different albums.

This brings me to a question for you guys. Is there a way to change the system attribute of a file when the attribute options are grayed out? not sure if I posed the question right. I will try using winPE. If this doesn't work I am not sure what will.

I used audio grabber to rip my music with the lame codec.

Oh this was my first post here on MP3car. woo hooo

**proph** · 05-27-2006, 08:52 AM

Ergman your the $hit, it had it as a system file and hidden. It works like a charm now... now to copying and renaming. Thanks again man... I feel like I owe you a hooker or something.

**ayclens** · 05-27-2006, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by ergman

*CUT* This brings me to a question for you guys. Is there a way to change the system attribute of a file when the attribute options are grayed out? not sure if I posed the question right. I will try using winPE. If this doesn't work I am not sure what will. *CUT*

Can't you just use a command prompt?

Use the command: "ATTRIB -r -h -s"

If you have a million files, use "ATTRIB/s *.jpg -r -h -s" to apply the changes to all .jpg files in all the subdirs of the directory that you are in (ie: C:/Music/...)