How to make Jolla's "Media" application show covers for MP3 files?
asked 2015-11-29 01:37:45 +0200
The situation is that "Media" application doesn't show covers for some of your MP3 files. I dug the question under study and my investigation yielded that possibly values of the "Genre" ID3 tag were guilty. Sometimes people that supply MP3 files, set "Genre" values manually. Perhaps, they really insert some strings (i.e. "Rock") but not the codes which probably correspond to the human-readable words. And if you compare two MP3 files (say, genre is "Rock", and one of them doesn't expose it's cover to "Media") by opening them, say, in "EasyTAG", you will not be able to see the difference. But if you choose, say "Acid Punk" (using the drop-down menu in "EasyTAG"), save the file, then change it's genre back to "Rock" (but, again, using the drop-down menu in "EasyTAG") and save the file, "Media" application will show the cover correctly.
I hope that my observation helps some people who stuck the same problem.
my question is rather: how to get rid of them? :-)
pawel ( 2015-11-29 11:32:42 +0200 )edit