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Note about embedded coverart - TheOldPresbyope - 07-14-2020 Disk space is cheap and I have gotten in the habit of ripping tracks to FLAC and embedding coverart as a Vorbis Comment Picture Block. This has always worked well for me. FYI, while investigating several users' unrelated issue with .m4a files I came across this two-week old comment in the MPD Issues log, posted by the MPD maintainer himself, in response to a user who wasn't getting the coverart returned from his .m4a files: Quote:MPD currently supports embedded pictures in FLAC files and in ID3v2 tags. Your file has neither. Regards, Kent RE: Note about embedded coverart - suzywong - 07-15-2020 Is there any benefit in using m4a rather than flac? Just curious. RE: Note about embedded coverart - TheOldPresbyope - 07-15-2020 (07-15-2020, 11:01 AM)suzywong Wrote: Is there any benefit in using m4a rather than flac? Insufficient information. M4A is just a container format. You still have to decide what you'll put in it. Popularly, it's used to contain AAC-encoded audio or for ALAC-encoded audio (but could contain other). AAC is a lossy encoder. As denoted by the 'L' in their initialisms, ALAC and FLAC are lossless encoders. So, if the question is about M4A/ALAC vs FLAC, then the sound quality should be indistinguishable to us mere mortals. It's the other stuff with sources, players, and software tools which will make the difference for a user. If you're an iTunes fan, you're going to want to stick with M4A/ALAC. I, for one, prefer FLAC because its non-proprietary and my tools and players are happy with it. Regards, Kent |