RE: Xlobby

["Kevin Hawkins" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tried this yesterday Paul - and what I found was there was no option to
store the downloaded cover art as a single file within the actual directory
containing the album - it either stores it in the MediCentre Cover art
directory and writes the path to a 'cover art location' field within the
ID3v2 tag - or you can set an option to add the image itself to each mp3
file (within the tag) which is obviously a bit wasteful for albums but was
an option ..

However - that yielded a second problem - I use a USB2 connected NTFS
formatted 250GB drive for my music collection. What I have found is that
the
space is none recoverable on this disk. What I mean is that if I add a 50MB
directory say for a new album I lose the space but when I remove it it
doesn't return as free space - even after emptying the trash -
defragmenting
the disk or whatever - does anyone know why this would be ??? Eventually my
drive fills and even at that satge the OS fails to do anything and moans
about disk full..

The additional problem is that if I add some information to the ID3tags of
my music file I am losing the size of the mp3 file even though I am only
adding a pathname or a small 25K Jpeg file. It seems to cost me the size of
the whole file each time I update them so even though I have 60 GB free
(180
GB used) I run out of space even though I'm only adding about 3MB of data
for paths or about 1GB for images.

Any ideas - I don't mind which way I do it although ideally I would
just like to place a jpg file in the directory for each album - named
either
artist-album.jpg or cover.jpg

Kevin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 07 March 2004 14:48
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Xlobby
>
> I used the batch art facility in Media Jukebox / Media
> Centre - got about 60% of my very large MP3 collection.
>
> Paul.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Hawkins [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 07 March 2004 13:26
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Xlobby
> >
> >    > -----Original Message-----
> >    > From: Mark McCall [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
> >    > Sent: 05 March 2004 19:44
> >    > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >    > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Xlobby
> >    >
> >    > > 	I am well impressed though - and speedwise it
really
> >    > does deliver
> >    > > when you have a very large music library which has
been
> >    > my problem to
> >    > > date with the other solution. It's still not
'instant'
> >    > but it is very
> >    > > useable.
> >    >
> >    > Yes...seems good speed.  Is there an eay way to get album
> >    > cover images downloaded for an MP3 collection?
> >
> > Can anyone suggest a good way to build cover art for a large mp3
> > library - I have tried Gotcha Covered but it seems full
> of bugs and
> > problems (crashes) and really slow. Looked at  'Album Cover Art
> > Downloader' but it doesn't use
> > mp3 tags. Definitely need some form of batch/automated
> system. I just
> > want the cover art files placed in the same directory - not
> > incorporated within the mp3 files themselves.
> >
> >
> >    >
> >    > > Also works very well with the UK TV listings screens
> >    > which James' xAP
> >    > > TV generates.
> >    >
> >    > Tell me more?
> >
> > You can just rename & place the XML TV files created by
> xAP TV / XMLTV
> > into the folder within Xlobby and they get automatically
> imported and
> > appear on the TV Listings screen.
> >
> >     Kevin
> >
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