Copy default cover into ID3v2.4 when possible

[fsck222]

to help the interworking between portable MP3 player (iPod, Zune, etc...) and also other audio player. It will be good to be able to copy the cover into the music tags, to allow users to have their cover to be displayed on their MP3 players.

Not sure how to do that, but I guess it need to use ID3v2.4 cover field. This task could be done part of the common-jukebox framework?

[bflorat]

Definitively something to dig. Cover tags should be managed by jaudiotagger api.

[bflorat]

In all cases, the writing of cover into mp3 files should be optional and volontary as it would make files grow and possibly lock user with products that has the ability to read covers from tags.

[fsck222]

I believe it should be a tool that will be used on demand (such as "find duplicate").

[bflorat]

I like this idea

[anonymous]

aTunes is working on this, but I think we will not make it part of common-jukebox because: a. The code is aTunes specific (at least part of it) b. There is no way to make it a separate jar easily

[anonymous]

tskler arkadasim

[bflorat]

Note that writing covers into tags has several drawbacks :

• Increases files size
• May override existing cover tag
• Which files do we want to set cover to ? current file ? all files of the same album in the same directory ? all files of the same album in any directory ?

Maybe should we add a new button or use SHIFT + default cover to explicitly write cover to the current file ? May be a first lightweight solution ?

Or add a new "default covers try to write cover as a tag" ?