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  • monsterjazzlick
    dBpoweramp Guru

    • Jul 2017
    • 1764

    #91
    Re: Recommendations for a digital audio player

    Originally posted by garym
    b. I also tick the box for convert all to jpg.
    Do you mean 'Force embedded to JPEG', please:

    Cheers.

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    • garym
      dBpoweramp Guru

      • Nov 2007
      • 5894

      #92
      Re: Recommendations for a digital audio player

      Originally posted by monsterjazzlick
      Do you mean 'Force embedded to JPEG', please:
      Cheers.
      yes

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      • monsterjazzlick
        dBpoweramp Guru

        • Jul 2017
        • 1764

        #93
        Re: Recommendations for a digital audio player

        garym,

        Having a quick try again now...

        Cheers,

        Paul

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        • monsterjazzlick
          dBpoweramp Guru

          • Jul 2017
          • 1764

          #94
          Re: Recommendations for a digital audio player

          Originally posted by garym
          8. when done (which could take hours depending on number of files), click FINISH.
          I just CONVERTED 3 albums:
          Last edited by monsterjazzlick; August 14, 2018, 12:01 AM. Reason: Link

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          • monsterjazzlick
            dBpoweramp Guru

            • Jul 2017
            • 1764

            #95
            Re: Recommendations for a digital audio player

            Originally posted by garym
            Now you have both folder.jpg and embedded art in all your files. AGAIN, do your testing to be sure that embedded art is actually the solution to your problem first. otherwise, no need to embed artwork.
            garym,

            All three 'Emerson, Lake & Palmer' albums are showing artwork on the Sony Walkman now! So this must mean the Walkman reads 'embedded' art only.

            Should I perform a massive 'Batch Conversion' in one single hit now, please? I have 150GB of FLACs. Or would you slice it down and do, say, one GENRE at a time; just to be safe?

            Paul

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            • schmidj
              dBpoweramp Guru

              • Nov 2013
              • 522

              #96
              Re: Recommendations for a digital audio player

              Before you do a batch conversion. or anything else that could drastically modify your ripped files, please make sure you have an extra copy of the files that will remain unmodified, like on a brick (USB) drive or an NAS. Too many ways of having an accident and doing irreparable damage. Much better safe than sorry.

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              • garym
                dBpoweramp Guru

                • Nov 2007
                • 5894

                #97
                Re: Recommendations for a digital audio player

                Originally posted by schmidj
                Before you do a batch conversion. or anything else that could drastically modify your ripped files, please make sure you have an extra copy of the files that will remain unmodified, like on a brick (USB) drive or an NAS. Too many ways of having an accident and doing irreparable damage. Much better safe than sorry.
                agree. but once you have a backup, I'd run it all in one big job. (I'm not that knowledgeable about using SD cards, but I suspect you'd be better off running the process to embed art on files that are on your USB external drive or your C: drive (rather than directly on your SD card), then copying the files back over to your SD Card.

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                • monsterjazzlick
                  dBpoweramp Guru

                  • Jul 2017
                  • 1764

                  #98
                  Re: Recommendations for a digital audio player

                  Originally posted by schmidj
                  Before you do a batch conversion. or anything else that could drastically modify your ripped files, please make sure you have an extra copy of the files that will remain unmodified, like on a brick (USB) drive or an NAS. Too many ways of having an accident and doing irreparable damage. Much better safe than sorry.
                  They are backed-up on 2 x SD cards, 3 external HD's, and my C: drive.

                  Is the second-mentioned what you refer to as a "brick"? Thanks.
                  Last edited by monsterjazzlick; August 14, 2018, 01:39 PM. Reason: spelling

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                  • monsterjazzlick
                    dBpoweramp Guru

                    • Jul 2017
                    • 1764

                    #99
                    Re: Recommendations for a digital audio player

                    Originally posted by garym
                    agree. but once you have a backup, I'd run it all in one big job. (I'm not that knowledgeable about using SD cards, but I suspect you'd be better off running the process to embed art on files that are on your USB external drive or your C: drive (rather than directly on your SD card), then copying the files back over to your SD Card.
                    Yes, I think you are correct. Plus, SD-cards seem to be significantly slower at such transferring tasks. The C: drive performs the task in half the time!

                    Would you just 'wipe' the Walkman's SD-card before saving the new 'embedded' artwork files on? Or would you go so far as to 'format' it again.

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                    • garym
                      dBpoweramp Guru

                      • Nov 2007
                      • 5894

                      Re: Recommendations for a digital audio player

                      Originally posted by monsterjazzlick
                      Yes, I think you are correct. Plus, SD-cards seem to be significantly slower at such transferring tasks. The C: drive performs the task in half the time!

                      Would you just 'wipe' the Walkman's SD-card before saving the new 'embedded' artwork files on? Or would you go so far as to 'format' it again.
                      Probably just wipe. Also brick is external usb drive.

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                      • monsterjazzlick
                        dBpoweramp Guru

                        • Jul 2017
                        • 1764

                        Re: Recommendations for a digital audio player

                        Originally posted by garym
                        Probably just wipe. Also brick is external usb drive.
                        OK, thanks; I'll do just that...

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                        • monsterjazzlick
                          dBpoweramp Guru

                          • Jul 2017
                          • 1764

                          Re: Recommendations for a digital audio player

                          Originally posted by garym
                          If you decide you need to embed your artwork in addition to having folder.jpg, do the following to automate it. (test on a folder or two to make sure you understand what's happening before running it on your entire collection).

                          7. bottom right, click CONVERT
                          8. when done (which could take hours depending on number of files), click FINISH.
                          It converted 150GB of artworks in 22 mins:

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                          • garym
                            dBpoweramp Guru

                            • Nov 2007
                            • 5894

                            Re: Recommendations for a digital audio player

                            Originally posted by monsterjazzlick
                            It converted 150GB of artworks in 22 mins:
                            nice! You did remember to hit the FINISH button, correct?

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                            • monsterjazzlick
                              dBpoweramp Guru

                              • Jul 2017
                              • 1764

                              Re: Recommendations for a digital audio player

                              Originally posted by garym
                              nice! You did remember to hit the FINISH button, correct?
                              Ha ha, yes I remembered this time thankfully!

                              Just firing-up the Walkman now...

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                              • monsterjazzlick
                                dBpoweramp Guru

                                • Jul 2017
                                • 1764

                                Re: Recommendations for a digital audio player

                                Hi,

                                I just random-checked a few albums and they all seem to be displaying the artwork! And those with double/triple-discs correctly display their respective-artworks.

                                Ironically, Sony emailed earlier on. They said their higher-tech team advised: "I will not be able to use my own PC to transfer music files or artworks to the Walkman"; and so instead I need to use an 'alternative' computer for this task. Quite unbelievable!

                                Paul
                                Last edited by monsterjazzlick; August 14, 2018, 08:58 PM. Reason: spelling

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