Box Set Cover Art

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(19-05-2015 17:24)simoncn Wrote:  This would only be the case if
1) folder view is not being used,
2) the tracks of the album are split between different folders,
3) only the folder.jpg approach is used to associate artwork with the album's tracks (i.e., no embedded artwork at all), and
4) the folder.jpg images are different for different tracks

Hi

Thanks for the reply.

I don't know if a lot of people use folder view...I know I do not as for me it seems to defeat the point of tagging somewhat.

I would assume that for most boxsets (or "album" - all the tracks for each disc within the same boxset are merged - different $DISCSUBTITLE tag values but the same $ALBUM tag value for all tracks) the artwork for each disc is likely to be different (e.g. the original album cover for the particular disc) so the folder.jpg image will be different across tracks on different discs (i.e. one folder.jpg for each $DISCSUBTITLE value). I know I could use the boxset artwork for every track, but this doesn't look so great...

Finally I don't understand why it is relevant that the artwork is taken from a folder.jpg (point 3 above)...wouldn't there still be a "choice" of artwork for the boxset (album) even if the artwork were embedded within each track? All the tracks for one disc would have the embedded artwork for that disc and all the tracks for another disc would have the embedded artwork for that other disc, etc. So which embedded artwork would be chosen for the album (boxset)? Am I missing something here? Hopefully I am and using embedded artwork may give me what I want?

In summary it would be good to be able to set an image for a boxset, but I do understand that this would be difficult since there is no track , i.e. no tagged entity, that is related to the "merged" album that does not also have its own associated artwork that is disc specific, regardless of whether this artwork is sourced from a folder.jpg or embedded?

I think I will agree to differ with David here as I think most boxsets (or albums comprising of merged tracks from different discs if you prefer), e.g. retrospectives, would be like this and so not that uncommon. I suppose it depends how many boxsets you own!

Regards
Chris