Support for Cover Art during conversion?

[GianlucaM]

Hi. I have searched this forum but I could not find the aswer to my question.

I am adding cover art (JPG images) to all my music files which are encoded in .APE format, and I was wondering if there are plan in dBpowerAMP Music Converter to support cover art, so that a players that support it (like the iPod with .m4a files) can display it.
Thanks,
-Gianluca.

[xoas]

Re: Support for Cover Art during conversion?

I believe Spoon has made reference to a super tag editing component that would do this and more but there is no telling when such a featurer will be ready. Spoon is the sole programmer for virtually all of the dBpowerAMP Programs and these are all in a constant state of improvement as well.

Best wishes,
Bill

[GianlucaM]

Re: Support for Cover Art during conversion?

Thank you for the reply Bill.
Actually I don't need to be able to edit my .APE files to add the image, because I wrote my own .APE tag editor program that does that; I only need to be able to use dBpowerAMP to convert my .APE files (which already contain the cover art images) into another format (in my case .m4a) and have dBpowerAMP pass the image artwork to the .m4a encoder.
I use the FAAC encoder (through the FAAC CLI encoder in dBpowerAMP), and I know that the FAAC command line encoder does take an image cover art file (like a *.JPG) in input.
Thanks,
-Gianluca.

[LtData]

Re: Support for Cover Art during conversion?

The problem is that dMC cannot interpret the album art, so it cannot put them into the new file.

[GianlucaM]

Re: Support for Cover Art during conversion?

Hmm...OK.
Forgive me for insisting but, in my case going from .APE to .M4A files it's just a matter of copying another tag over, with the only difference that the content of the cover-art tag need to be copied to a file and then that filename passed to FAAC as another command line option. It's quite easy to extract the cover-art tag from a .APE file using Monkey's Audio SDK package.
-Gianluca.

[LtData]

Re: Support for Cover Art during conversion?

Right, but as it has been said, dMC doesn't support cover-art tags right now. The Monkey's Audio SDK may support it, but dMC doesn't. Sorry

[rayi34]

Re: Support for Cover Art during conversion?

Hello. Well I hate to state the obvious that being able to tag cover art is long overdue and needs to be done. This has been discussed long enough for the programmer (hint) to get the message. I actually would be willing to pay more for this feature to be included. I would use the coverter more often, but I actually tend to avoid it if I can.

[Spoon]

Re: Support for Cover Art during conversion?

It is down for adding, not sure if it will make R12, possibly R13.

[LtData]

Re: Support for Cover Art during conversion?

He does get the message and plans to include it at some point. For a more exact timeframe, you'll have to ask Spoon (programmer and developer).