Big library. Whats better: embedded artwork in each track or separate jpg in album folder

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Hans
Dear Bluos team, I have a big library of about 150.000 tracks. All classical music resulting in a lot of metadata. Big cd boxes I import and store as one album. Am I assuming correctly that it saves space in the library file/ index on my nodes when I don’t embed the album art in each track but only as one jpg in the same folder?
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  • Official comment
    Tony W.
    Product Support Manager

    Hi Hans

    Removing all embedded artwork and using a single cover.jpg file in each directory on jumbo size libraries will significantly reduce resource storage and increase App efficiency and response times when browsing your library.

    See here for more details; https://support.bluos.net/hc/en-us/articles/360000368827

     

  • Seppi Evans
    Hi-Res

    Hi Hans,

    There is a great App called Bliss that can run through all your albums removing the imbedded artwork automatically, it’s a great time saver. You can also adjust the artwork size automatically (both size and physics space) and again this helps with resources.

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  • Hans
    • Edited

    Thank you Tony, that’s very good information to have. I could not find it in the support pages (including the link you just shared).
    Best regards, Hans

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  • Hans

    And thank you for the advice Seppi I will give it a try.

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  • Gerben

    @Tony: it would be useful if such information is included in the article you referred to

    @Hans: alternative to Bliss would be mp3tag (free for Windows, 7-day trial for Mac); it supports bulk cover art removal and bulk cover adjustment (by specifying max pixel size); unlike the name suggests, most formats are supported

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  • Hans

    Big thanks to all of you. It took me not much more than an hour and now the total metadata of my big library is halved in size (with mp3tag). It makes the Bluos app run smoother (it was good but now it’s great). And I don’t need to worry anymore about running into the max library size in the future.

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  • Gerben

    Out of interest: what did you do, remove the embedded art or resize these? If resizing, to which max size?

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  • Hans

    Hi Gerben, I removed the embedded artwork from the biggest albums and replaced with a cover.jpg in the album folder. Before this I already aimed for artwork size between 400 and 600kb. If possible not much lower to keep a good enough quality on a 12.9 inch iPad screen. Not higher than 600kb to limit total metadata size of the library and to be able to keep the optimize artwork setting turned off which results in faster indexing.

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