I have now tried everything
As I have post in other threads I struggling with covers not showing up for half of my collection.
So far I have found out that some of my files have been up to 2 MB and that should not be to big as it is stated: "Bluesound will resize any external graphic file larger than 600kb but less than 4mb in size to a 600x600 jpg" None of my Scans is that big. So far I have tried:
To resize the jpg's from 1 MG to 500 kb and even down to 250 kb.
Rename the files.
Remove the tags add the smaller cover and retag.
Rename the folder to covers.jpg and of course to folder.jpg
Tried to get rid of the folders and put just the front cover direct to the folder holding the Music files.
Convert files to Flac and add the downsized cover and original size non of this works.
Reindex the whole Collection both with the resize covers and not with the resize features on
Reload covers
Load the files to a new HDD
Not using capital letters and using capital letters
Reset the Node to factory setting and loaded the library again.
I have spending the whole day and evening to get this to work with no result.
The covers showing up is in subfolders to the musicfolder and named for example:: ABBA - RING RING - COVERS - RZ and the jpeg's are named: ABBA - RING RING - A - RZ but this is just for half of my entire Collection Everything is tagged with JRivers ID3 tags. This is the "original" that I have been using for years running on JRiver with no problem and they show's up in the Node. The same Jpeg's are copied and loaded to my library software collectorz.com with no problem.
Nothing works, and looking around this forum it is not only me struggling with this issue, how to solve this what more can I do? Even better what can you do to make this product handlig covers better? Cause I'm out of ideas.
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I did all that, right now I rescanned an album cover to get a Clean copy tagged it with folder. jpg added it to the album file.
464 kb. Rebuilded the index, reloaded artwork. No cover shows up.
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there is no use to alter folder to cover.jpg nothing works.
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I was reading your entire post and I can't find any info on what software are you using to edit your "folder.jpg" files. The JPG format is not monolithic, so there are a few caveats that needs to be avoided. From the sheer size of your files I can tell that something is not right. My folder.jpg files are usually 450x450px and they are rarely bigger than 100kb. Even files that are 600x600px shouldn't be larger than 150kb.
As an graphic professional, I'm lucky to have access to Adobe Photoshop, and the example that I'm going to show here is going to be from that program. The options that you can see in software that you use might be in different place, but the parameters are always the same.
When you resize the cover photo in your photo editing software, set the resolution to 72 or 96 pixels/inch, and set the size from 450 to 600px, as you like.
Then try to find some JPG options like in this picture. Avoid using "Progressive" at any cost as many media programs are not familiar with it. These are my preferred settings.
Just one more thing. If there is an option to save Color profile with your photo turn it off as it's only going to make folder.jpg larger in kb and BluOS isn't going to use it anyway.
I really hope this would help. Some other software that I used earlier thought me to be pedantic with the way I submit my media files to the Library so I didn't have any problems with Library indexing on BluOS from the beginning. All the subfolders with music in my Library looks like this example.
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Hi and thank you all for advises and helps, I found what was wrong, but first of all let me say that I started out by ripping in EAC and then scanned the covers myself, and just like you Igor I have Photoshop elements to adjust the covers. This work started years ago and as I listened to music via JRiver media software that was at the time a very good audoiphil software. JRiver didn't care what size a jpg was or how the file was named. So I did it my way to create a good and easy to find structure. The problem was when migrating from computer to Bluesound Node. Some covers turned up while other didn't.
So after a lot of trying, adding, Reading the this forum and a lot of other thing a I found out that JRiver seems to not tag the cover into the files they seems to handle it in their own way. I also found that some of my covers was too big. I decided to try another ripper and was advised by another forum member (thank you Bjorn) to ttry db -poweramp. Voila this software has a feature to read my files and add the cover. If the jpg's are a Little to big It can downsize it to whatever size I prefeer. It don't mind the filename so my Jpg's are still named for example: From Elvis In Memphis - Elvis Presley - A - Rz. So I'm A Happy Man! I have a lot of work to do adding all those missing covers.(and sometimes use Photoshop to resize the biggest ones) For all of you Flac friends, I still listen to Wav, and it works great!
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