[maemo-users] Displaying music album cover images in media player

[From: Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Gunter Ohrner
<G.Ohrner at post.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I just got my new, shiny N900 and updated it to firmware release Maemo 5
> 3.2010.02-8.
>
> The media player works, but does not shows cover images for most of my
> music albums.
>
> I read the manual, but I could not find any hint on what I would have to
> do to make the player recognise the cover images.
>
> Nearly all of my albums have a cover which is contained within the
> directory containing the album's music files. In all cases, there is a
> tiny "folder.jpg" (which is needed by my dedicated mobile music player)
> and a higher resolution PNG of JPG file of the same image. This separate
> file is often called "FrontCover.jpg", "FrontCover.png" or
> "AlbumName.png" or similar.
>
> What do I have to do to make the media player recognise and display
> these files?

Rename folder.jpg to cover.jpg and it might work.

Also if the cover is embedded inthe ID3 tag it should read that as well.