Specifications

Appendix C. Album Art 162
C Album Art
C.1 Introduction
Rockbox allows you to put the album art, or another image related to the music on your
playerto display it in the PictureFlow plugin or in the WPS. For this feature to work,
you must observe a few rules.
C.2 Limitations
Rockbox does not support album art embedded in your files’ tags, and will instead look
for a picture located in the filesystem. In addition to this, the pictures must be in the
BMP or JPEG formats. Rockbox does not support RLE-compressed BMP files, nor
does it support progressive and multi-scan JPEG files. JPEG files must consist of a
single scan with interleaved components, as progessive and multi-scan images require
much more memory to decode.
C.3 Where to put album art
The pictures can be named a number of different ways, and placed to a number of
different locations. You can have pictures specific to the file or the album or use a
generic picture. You can place the picture in the same directory as the file, in the parent
directory or in a fixed directory named /.rockbox/albumart/. The order Rockbox uses
when looking for a picture is as follows (a list in braces means that those file extensions
are tried in that order):
1. ./filename.{jpeg,jpg,bmp}
2. ./albumtitle.{jpeg,jpg,bmp}
3. ./cover.{jpeg,jpg,bmp}
4. ./folder.jpg
5. /.rockbox/albumart/artist-albumtitle.{jpeg,jpg,bmp}
6. ../albumtitle.{jpeg,jpg,bmp}
7. ../cover.{jpeg,jpg,bmp}
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