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  • malhar

    • Aug 2024
    • 7

    Album art

    I have converted an MP3 file to Flac with dbpoweramp, so far so good as it moves the file to my Naim Unity Core. However it dose not show the album art work, I am using PerfectTunes to get the art work to show. What am I doing wrong, I have messed on for several days without any luck.
  • Spoon
    Administrator
    • Apr 2002
    • 44482

    #2
    A few questions, why convert mp3 to flac?

    Your mp3 file, does it have album art? right click on it >> Edit ID Tags, you can do the same for the FLAC file after it is created. If they have album art then look to how the Naim is being served the files. Consider Asset UPnP.
    Spoon
    www.dbpoweramp.com

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    • malhar

      • Aug 2024
      • 7

      #3
      Originally posted by malhar
      I have converted an MP3 file to Flac with dbpoweramp, so far so good as it moves the file to my Naim Unity Core. However it dose not show the album art work, I am using PerfectTunes to get the art work to show. What am I doing wrong, I have messed on for several days without any luck.
      Hi,
      Thanks for the info, I tried what you suggested however the album art did not appear on my iPad where I have the Naim app. Do you have any further information that my help.

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      • Spoon
        Administrator
        • Apr 2002
        • 44482

        #4
        Did you right click on the file >> Edit ID Tags?
        Spoon
        www.dbpoweramp.com

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        • malhar

          • Aug 2024
          • 7

          #5
          Originally posted by malhar

          Hi,
          Thanks for the info, I tried what you suggested however the album art did not appear on my iPad where I have the Naim app. Do you have any further information that my help.
          Yes I did, but it just showed tags, not edit id tags. what am I doing wrong.

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          • Spoon
            Administrator
            • Apr 2002
            • 44482

            #6
            You have dBpoweramp installed?
            Spoon
            www.dbpoweramp.com

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            • malhar

              • Aug 2024
              • 7

              #7
              Originally posted by malhar

              Yes I did, but it just showed tags, not edit id tags. what am I doing wrong.
              Yes I do, I am using an iMac if that helps.

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              • Spoon
                Administrator
                • Apr 2002
                • 44482

                #8
                And does it show album art when you edit the tags for one of the files? On macOS it could be under dBpoweramp >> Edit tags with dBpoweramp
                Spoon
                www.dbpoweramp.com

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                • malhar

                  • Aug 2024
                  • 7

                  #9
                  Originally posted by malhar

                  Yes I do, I am using an iMac if that helps.
                  Thanks, when I open tags it only shows the coloured dots and nothing else.

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                  • Spoon
                    Administrator
                    • Apr 2002
                    • 44482

                    #10
                    Then your files do not contain album art, you can look at PerfectTUNES for quickly adding the art.
                    Spoon
                    www.dbpoweramp.com

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                    • malhar

                      • Aug 2024
                      • 7

                      #11
                      Originally posted by malhar

                      Thanks, when I open tags it only shows the coloured dots and nothing else.
                      Thanks for your help, I can get it to work now. I am not getting anywhere fast, but a least I am making some slow progress. If I rip a CD I can choose the quality level, IE 1 to 9. Do you know what the Flac level is when converting an MP3 file. I have hundreds of MP3 files to convert plus obtain the album art. What is the best/fastest way to do this.

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                      • Spoon
                        Administrator
                        • Apr 2002
                        • 44482

                        #12
                        You would not convert mp3 to FLAC, there is no point.

                        To obtain album art you need to process the existing files, not convert them
                        Spoon
                        www.dbpoweramp.com

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                        • Dat Ei
                          dBpoweramp Guru

                          • Feb 2014
                          • 1786

                          #13
                          The level of flacs represent just a compression rate, which has no impact on the audio quality, but the file sizes.


                          Dat Ei

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                          • simbun
                            dBpoweramp Enthusiast

                            • Apr 2021
                            • 87

                            #14
                            Originally posted by malhar
                            I have hundreds of MP3 files to convert plus obtain the album art. What is the best/fastest way to do this.
                            It has been asked before, but why are you converting from MP3 to FLAC? Audio data has already been discarded during the initial conversion to MP3, converting to FLAC just increases the file size.

                            Originally posted by malhar
                            If I rip a CD I can choose the quality level, IE 1 to 9. Do you know what the Flac level is when converting an MP3 file.
                            The FLAC compression level tells the encoder how much effort (time) to put into compressing the audio. The output will always be lossless and the decoding time is largely unaffected, so 5 is a common choice.

                            I know nothing about the Naim system, but typically you'll want to store album artwork in a file called folder.jpg in the directory containing your tracks e.g.
                            %ALBUMARTIST%/%ALBUM%/CD%DISCNUMBER%/%TRACKNUMBER% - %TITLE%.ext
                            %ALBUMARTIST%/%ALBUM%/CD%DISCNUMBER%/folder.jpg



                            EDIT: It looks like the forum doesn't notify me of subsequent replies, or I didn't see it.

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                            • malhar

                              • Aug 2024
                              • 7

                              #15
                              Originally posted by malhar

                              Thanks for your help, I can get it to work now. I am not getting anywhere fast, but a least I am making some slow progress. If I rip a CD I can choose the quality level, IE 1 to 9. Do you know what the Flac level is when converting an MP3 file. I have hundreds of MP3 files to convert plus obtain the album art. What is the best/fastest way to do this.
                              Hi, not sure what you mean by process.

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