Minim not passing through embedded artwork?

[simoncn]

Thanks for these detailed instructions. Doing this testing has reminded me why I switched from EAC to dBpoweramp at least 10 years ago.

Ripping test tracks with the two JPEG/EXIF files produced .mp3 files with the unusual tagging that was causing problems for MinimServer. Ripping with the JPEG/JFIF file produced an .mp3 file with standard tagging. Embedding these images into .mp3 files is done by LAME, so the unusual tagging is a LAME issue.

When you ripped files with the White album image (JPEG/EXIF), you weren't using a local disk file for the artwork image but you were using artwork downloaded by EAC. It appears that for some reason this produces standard tagging when passed to LAME. I don't think it would be productive to dig deeper into why this happens as it doesn't make any difference to the change I need to make to MinimServer to support the unusual tagging produced by LAME for some files.

Thanks for your help with tracking down the combination of factors that causes this problem. The fix will be in the next MinimServer update.