Three method of Cover art in Meizu players
Posted: 05 Feb 2009 10:52
Some users have claimed that it's difficult to deal with Cover Art in Meizu players. This is wrong, actually Meizu player have 3 working methods... not just one.
I talk of Meizu players as this apply to M6 x2.004.4 and M3 T2.004.3
Examples:
AAAAAA (A uppercase) = Artist = The Beatles
aaaaaa (a lowercase) = Album = Abbey Road
Method 1. Most simple method.
Cover Art in \ALBUMS folder in format aaaaaa.jpg, then Abbey Road.jpg
Folders structure is
\ALBUMS
Abbey Road.jpg
Cover Art in this \ALBUMS folder apply to all matching files located anywhere in the player, in other words: it doesn't matter what folders structure are followed.
This method can be confusing when album name is too common, ie: ”Greatest Hits” then must be used Method 2 or 3.
Method 2. Most known method.
Cover Art in \ALBUMS folder in format aaaaaaAAAAAAA.jpg, then Abbey RoadThe Beatles.jpg
This is automatically generated by WMP10 and above with USB MTP mode of Meizu players.
Folders structure is
\ALBUMS
Abbey RoadThe Beatles.jpg
\MUSIC
_____\The Beatles
__________\Abbey Road
_____________ track 1
_____________ ...
Method 3. Most sophisticated method
This is used by some media managers like J. River Media Center.
Cover Art in albums folder with format aaaaaa.jpg
Important: aaaaaa.jpg has to be different than the name of the folder.
For instance, as a personal rule I put year of release before the name of the Album. Then folder "1969 Abbey Road",
Folders structure is
\MUSIC
_____\The Beatles
__________\1969 Abbey Road
_____________ track 1
_____________ ...
_____________ Abbey Road.jpg. <--- cover art
Name of the folders is free in this method.
Generalities
a. AFAIK Cover Art can be any size. I suppose it follows sizes of photos in menu function PICTURES.
c. The names must fit exactly ID3 tag fields "artist" and "album".
Folder, when mentioned, must fit exactly names in ID3
Then this won't work
AAAAAA = "The beatles" "the Beatles" "the beatles"
aaaaaa = "Abbey road" "abbey Road" "abbey road"
Hope it helps
I talk of Meizu players as this apply to M6 x2.004.4 and M3 T2.004.3
Examples:
AAAAAA (A uppercase) = Artist = The Beatles
aaaaaa (a lowercase) = Album = Abbey Road
Method 1. Most simple method.
Cover Art in \ALBUMS folder in format aaaaaa.jpg, then Abbey Road.jpg
Folders structure is
\ALBUMS
Abbey Road.jpg
Cover Art in this \ALBUMS folder apply to all matching files located anywhere in the player, in other words: it doesn't matter what folders structure are followed.
This method can be confusing when album name is too common, ie: ”Greatest Hits” then must be used Method 2 or 3.
Method 2. Most known method.
Cover Art in \ALBUMS folder in format aaaaaaAAAAAAA.jpg, then Abbey RoadThe Beatles.jpg
This is automatically generated by WMP10 and above with USB MTP mode of Meizu players.
Folders structure is
\ALBUMS
Abbey RoadThe Beatles.jpg
\MUSIC
_____\The Beatles
__________\Abbey Road
_____________ track 1
_____________ ...
Method 3. Most sophisticated method
This is used by some media managers like J. River Media Center.
Cover Art in albums folder with format aaaaaa.jpg
Important: aaaaaa.jpg has to be different than the name of the folder.
For instance, as a personal rule I put year of release before the name of the Album. Then folder "1969 Abbey Road",
Folders structure is
\MUSIC
_____\The Beatles
__________\1969 Abbey Road
_____________ track 1
_____________ ...
_____________ Abbey Road.jpg. <--- cover art
Name of the folders is free in this method.
Generalities
a. AFAIK Cover Art can be any size. I suppose it follows sizes of photos in menu function PICTURES.
c. The names must fit exactly ID3 tag fields "artist" and "album".
Folder, when mentioned, must fit exactly names in ID3
Then this won't work
AAAAAA = "The beatles" "the Beatles" "the beatles"
aaaaaa = "Abbey road" "abbey Road" "abbey road"
Hope it helps