FLAC Embedded Album Covers

[TheOldPresbyope]

Hi Rob,

I was able to repro the issue. Only the Doors embedded cover is displayed. I looked at the files with Mediainfo and did not see anything suspicious.

I don't have any other tools to analyze the files so maybe u can look at them with a tag editor and see if there is anything unusual with the embedded images.

-Tim

Try VLC, my favorite Swiss-Army knife, available on most platforms. It should show the image in a media file if present.

FLAC is not MP3. See https://xiph.org/flac/index.html for a discussion of its format scheme.

Regards,
Kent

Hi Kent,

Every other program I have displays the embedded image without an issue (especially VLC). I use MP3TAG to tag my MP3 and FLAC and it shows the image.

No one said MP3 and FLAC are the same. 

Thanks,
Rob

Sorry, I was in a hurry to leave and ended up with what sounds snarky when I read it now.

The point I failed to make is that FLAC has its own scheme for metadata and various editors do or do not write strictly valid entries. Some players are more lenient than others about it. I haven't explored the Zend modules which are pulled into moOde to deal with the various file types but it's possible Zend/Media/Flac.php is having heartburn over some of your files or it's returning data which moOde's coverart.php throws into the proverbial bit-bucket.

I don't have a library of FLAC files to test. I just downloaded one I found on the Interweb which VLC can play and display the coverart. moOde can also play it but not display the coverart. Similarly the very useful tool easyTAG can display its basic audio info and its textual metatags but not its coverart. I'm thinking one could use the Python mutagen module to analyze the file contents in detail, but no promises here.

In the above I use the word "coverart" loosely. FLAC has the METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE which can contain many pictures of different "picture type". The MIME type of each picture is mandatory. yada yada yada. That's why I pointed to the spec.

Regards,
Kent