Several questions

[sculen]

in the folders on my external drive

[simbun]

I still don't understand. Just WHERE EXACTLY are you seeing that the artwork is not embedded in the FLAC files.

Probably Finder!

[garym]

Probably Finder!

Likely (similar to file explorer in windows). This is not a music library, and won't show you embedded art (or the folder.jpg). I'm guessing that AIFF (being apple format) may be showing him a picture of the art as the "icon" for the file, and he is taking that as being "embedded" artwork.

[sculen]

Flac ....

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aiff......

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[sculen]

in case the pictures didn't get to you, here now as attachments

[sculen]

Let me see if I understand. I'm on a mac, so AIFF shows the embedded art work. Flac does not. But that does not necessarily meant that it's not embedded in the FLAC files. The only way to know for sure is test it in playback. Since I'm currently not there yet on playback, there is no way to confirm it. Do I have it right?

[garym]

Let me see if I understand. I'm on a mac, so AIFF shows the embedded art work. Flac does not. But that does not necessarily meant that it's not embedded in the FLAC files. The only way to know for sure is test it in playback. Since I'm currently not there yet on playback, there is no way to confirm it. Do I have it right?

Correct. Your seeing the MAc using the art for the icon.

you could confirm it by using id tag edit from dbpa. Or mp3tag. Or almost any tagging program. You could also install foobar2000 as a server/player.

[schmidj]

You are probably right about Finder. You are being fooled by it. (I just ripped a dozen CDs with dBpa to FLAC (on my PC) and the artwork was saved in all the files.) But there are ways to see (and if necessary edit) the tags, called tag editors. dBpoweramp includes one. On the PC you use Explorer (our equivalent to Finder) to select a file and right click on it. The help information for the mac says right click, select sevices, then edit tags in dBpoerramp. That tag editor will show you the tags saved for that track, including the artwork.

There is another tag editor most of us use called mp3tag (the name is deceiving, it does tags for almost every codec you can imagine. The PC version is free, donation requested, the mac version is available fro the store for $25.00 I think you'd find it well worth the cost. It will also show the artwork.

Unlike Gary, I use the artwork tag saved with each track in my players. I actually store the folder.jpg artwork file also, should I ever need it. (It has saved me a few times when I accidentally edited the wrong files and stuck incorrect artwork in the tags. But I still had the folder.jpg file with the correct artwork which I copied to the messed up files.

You really at this point need to install a simple player on your mac, one that displays tags. This allows you to properly check what you have ripped. You can certainly install the (free) MAC version of Foobar2000, an excellent player, but it does have a bit of frustration in get it initially configured. The program is just about infinitely configurable. I'm not sure how usable it is as initially installed, I played with my installation years ago for some time before I got the user interface to a way it made it make sense to me. Perhaps others here of the MAC school will suggest another player.

Remember, this player is not for regular day to day use, it is there as a testing tool to make sure your files are god and configured in a usable fashion. You will be listening through the MAC speakers or a pair of headphones unless you connect better speakers, but that doesn't matter. This isn't for audio quality, it is for checking tagging as seen by a player.

[sculen]

Got it all. Thanks guys