Empty_Shell
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posted on 9-28-2004 at 05:41 AM
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Cool software, but Album Art Tags?
Hi, Ive been trying to set up a jukebox system for an upcoming wedding party and have searched extensively for software that suits my
needs/tastes.
In my opinion, eJukebox is the slickest attempt ive seen yet but I can't for the life of me get the software to display my album art.
I had a lot of mp3's semi tagged and with zero art so decided to purchase mp3Tag to do all (most) of the work for me just as a massive batch job.
It performed well obtaining art/lyrics etc which I can view in windows media player, musicmatch jb and various mp3 related software, but
disappointingly not in eJukebox.
Ive tryed using other mp3 tagging software (tag tools, tag clinic) to no effect with their image tagging functions. Also, they will show the art
tagged by MP3Tag and indicate the tag having a field type "Cover (front)" whereas those tagged with the built in editor of eJ have a field
type "Other". If that makes sense to anyone. Ive tryed editing the mp3 - saving with field type "other" , still nothing. What is
different here in the way art is tagged?
Getting confused, and disheartened - any ideas much appreciated.
Its not something stupid like no art displayed in unregistered version is it? as i have been hesitant to purchase due to this problem.
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posted on 9-28-2004 at 09:09 PM
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Empty_Shell, eJukebox should automatically look up your album covers for you from some database. (Not sure what its called) Every option in the pro
version of eJukebox is in the demo version so albums should be working. When you play a song for the first time eJukebox should look up the album
cover. When you play a song in the now playing window do you see a magnifying glass over the area the cover should show up in? It should then show up
under the albums tab with all the other albums that have been looked up so far. If eJukebox is not automatically looking up the covers it is possible
this feature has been disabled. One of the buttons to the right of the play controls pulls up an options menu. Click on the "Other" tab and
make sure the box that says "Disable automatic album cover lookups" does NOT have a check in it. If you are still having problems click on
the albums tab and at the top of the window you will see 3 buttons (Full List, Search, and Options) Click on options and then "Lookup missing
cover images." Hopefully this will load up all the covers. You can also try clicking the full list button. Let me know if that works or you still
need help. 
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Audiosoft
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posted on 9-28-2004 at 11:29 PM
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If you added album art to the mp3 tags 'after' setting up your eJukebox database: you will need to rebuild your music database to get
eJukebox to see the art. On the eJukebox options panel...click the 'Update Database' button and select Rebuild.
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Empty_Shell
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posted on 9-29-2004 at 12:29 AM
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Thanks for both replies, firstly rllercstr - yes am aware of eJ's auto lookup and this is not disabled, it does work to some degree with my
mp3's.
The annoyance of it is that my mp3's already have ALL their album art tagged the way I want them, eJ just doesnt see it - well it sees everything
bar the graphic.
Thanks Audiosoft for your reply, have tried rebuilding database everytime on a small folder containing 4 albums, fully tagged. 2 albums tagged
through eJ and 2 (which dont show) through other tagging software, ive also tried complete reinstalls.
There is some compatibility issue or tagging schema that is not consistent between these different programs, a lot of other software sees it so I can
only assume the problem is within eJ, dont get me wrong, i think that eJukebox is great and if it comes down to it I think I will wipe all my tags
and redo them through eJ's editor (lot of work I already done...bugger) but I think there is definitely an issue here - am curious to know if
anyone has had success with pre-tagged mp3's (with other taggers) importing into eJ's database with success and name of software used.
Thanks again.
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Fishy
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posted on 9-29-2004 at 09:29 AM
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I got fine experiences with a "second hand tagger" named tag&rename. A big bonus is that it can get albuminfo directly from Amazon,
which eases the tagging process quite a lot 
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Empty_Shell
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posted on 9-29-2004 at 09:35 PM
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Thanks Fishy, downloaded tag&rename to try out, it could see my images in the tag and thanks to its batch tagging I was able to go into each
album, then "edit all supported tag fields", ticked the "art" and it rewrites all files in a format that eJ can see. Saved a lot
of work reaquiring the images that I wanted so thanks very much.
Still strange but, am thinking that this must be a simple problem with the way frames are read and written between these different pieces of software,
anyway tag&rename bridged them for me nicely so cheers.
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posted on 9-29-2004 at 10:04 PM
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Glad to hear that it does the job for you too.. Ej and tag&rename is a
powerful fusion.. Cheers!
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posted on 9-30-2004 at 11:38 AM
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| Quote: | Message original : Empty_Shell
Still strange but, am thinking that this must be a simple problem with the way frames are read and written between these different pieces of
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I totally agree, Empty_Shell...
I've already experienced the same thing than you with my album covers in the tags and various softwares... It seems that each software do what it
can, but...
Fortunately, like says Fishy, tag&rename works good with eJukebox!
Personally now, i just put a "cover.jpg" image in the repertory of each album, and eJukebox read them during the database rebuilding!
It's another easy solution, providing you have organized your albums each one in a separate repertory... but then, no need to put an image in
each mp3!
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noision
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posted on 10-1-2004 at 03:17 PM
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I am finding that eJukebox is not recognizing albums made from .m4a files.
I.e., if I have a ZZTop folder with two subfolders for two separate albums. If one subfolder has fully tagged (w/album art from byTaag&Rename)
.mp3 files and the other subfolder has similarly fully tagged .m4a files, then eJukebox will show all the tracks from both albums but will only
identify the .mp3 files as belonging to an album and show the album art. The .m4a album tracks will just show up as loose ZZTop tracks . . .
I wish this would be fixed!
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Audiosoft
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posted on 10-1-2004 at 08:16 PM
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The best way to get eJukebox to recoginze .m4a files (or any other non-mp3/mpc file type without ID3 tags) is to name them "track# - artist -
title.m4a" then put all the files from the album in a single folder named after the album...then drop a "cover.jpg" file in the folder. After that
you would need to use eJukebox's Database Update wizard to either rebuild the whole database or rebuild the album folder, in order for eJukebox to
recognize the changes.
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noision
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posted on 10-2-2004 at 11:06 PM
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Thanks .m4a files do have some sort of tags right? Will a future version of eJukebox recognize these?
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perf
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posted on 10-8-2004 at 11:57 PM
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Audiosoft,
I did this for my wma files, but the application did not pick up the album names for the folder names.
/Per
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