Try - Menu: Settings>System Settings>Display Art in Lists set to 'On'
When I play the music albums on my Sansa player, I can see on the screen the information but not the album art. I know the album art is in my player already 'coz when the player is connected to the computer and I select the removable disc and click music, the folders will show the album art. Is there a way to make the player show the album art?
Oh my Sansa is a 2 gb black player with an 8 gb micro sd in it.
Thanks
The Display Art in Lists is set to on already and still it would not show the
album art.
The only other thing I've seen is my loader (MediaMonkey) will eliminate album art larger than a certain size so some of my songs which have art on my computer don't have art on my Fuze. Otherwise you might check some of the other forums.
Yeah, you don't hear the album art, but I like to see the album covers and it bugs me to not have it. It took a little time but I got almost all my album art working.
If you can't see any art, there's probably something going on with your loader, not the player. Make sure options to load album art are checked. Also check how you're saving the art. I save the art in the song tags. Art can be saved separately and linked to the song. That only works on the Fuze (if at all) if you transfer the art over separately. Your player may re-link the art to the song even if the art isn't on the player so seeing the art in your loader doesn't mean the art is actually on the Fuze. Make sure the art is saved in the song tags.
If there are only a few you can't see, then it's probably something about the format of the art file (size, resolution, scan type etc.) the player doesn't like. For some albums, I had to search the web to find a compatible file. In a few cases, I edited with a photo editor to get the Fuze to display it.
I really like to have the album art but this septuagenarian newbie it technically
challenged.
I really like to see the album cover.
When you say loader, is it the WPM and where do I look for the options to load
album art.
This is the way how I do it. I ripped the cd using WPM and after ripping, I right click the album to look for the album information. When it gets all the info including the album art I clicked update for the album. Then I check the music folder in my player and it shows the album art or the cover. When I play the album, it does not show wht album art.
I guess I am missing some steps or I am not doing it properly.
I use either WMP or MediaMonkey as my 'loader'. The album art and other info are usually stored in tags embedded in the mp3 file. Sometimes, the album art file (usually jpg or bmp) are stored separately. Tag and album art can be entered manually or added using the tag editor features of your loader or through a separate tag editor. Alternatively, both WMP and MM support loading tag/art off the web, usually from amazon.com but you can direct the loader to use info from other websites. 60-70% of the time, updating from the web gets the right info/art loaded into the mp3 file. Another 20-30% just need to be manually tweaked or an alternate web location for the data/art chosen. The remaining 10% need to be done manually, especially for obscure artists or songs.
You should find commands in both WMP and MM to achieve all of the above. If you need more specific, step-by-step instructions, indicate which program you use and I'll try to post.
I am using WPM cause i find that MM is very slow. Please let me know the step-
by-step in loading the album art.
Thanks and I really appreciate your help.
Here's a bit more step-by-step. Open WMP and right click on the song to which you want to add album art. In the menu, click on 'Find Album Info'. The next window should show you the correct album cover. Click 'Next' then 'Finish'.
If this doesn't work, you can download album art through your webbrowser. Find the album in an on-line store such as Amazon. Right click on the album art you want and select 'save image as'. Save the image by whatever name you want and whatever location you want. A folder named 'album art' on the desktop would be easy to find. Right click on the song you to which you want to add the art and select 'Advanced Tag Editor'. Click on the 'Pictures' tab, then 'Add'. In the new window, move to the folder containing your art and select the file you want - click 'Open'. In the 'Picture type' drop down, select 'Cover (front)' then click 'OK' or 'Apply'. This will add the album art to your mp3 file. Copy the file to your player either through WMP, Drag-n-Drop in windows explorer, or another loader like MediaMonkey. You should be able to see the album art next time you start your player. Occasionally, the Fuze won't like something about the file (size, how it's encoded etc.). Just locate the same picture on another website and give it a try deleting the old art first.
Hi Rob, sorry for not responding to your post regarding album art. MY computer
crashed and right now I am in the local public library using their computer.
I will let you know as soon as my computer is working again.
By the way the first part of your post is what i was doing, I have the album
art in the computer and when my player is connected to the computer, the music folders shows the album cover. I just don't know what to do so it will show
the album art when I want to listen to the player.
There's a setting in one of the menus called "Display art in lists". I think it's in the music options. Is that set to on? Oops, never mind - you already did that.
Try unloading all your songs and reloading them. Once you add the art, you have to reload the song to update to the file version which contains the art.
I unloaded all the albums and reloaded everything back and still no album art.
All the albums in the WPM library has the album cover art as well as in the
music folders in the player.
Please bear with me as I not computer savvy. I will just read everything again
and see what I might have missed.
Thanks again Rob.
That might be the problem. WMP is storing the art separate from the songs. The art needs to be embedded in the mp3 file itself as a tag, not in a separate file. I've heard the Fuze will read art in separate files but it's likely WMP isn't tranferring the art file and the music file to the fuze.
See if you can get the art added to the file as a tag.
How do I do that? How do you tag the cover art so ti can be added to the mp2 file?
I'm not sure in WMP. In MediaMonkey, when you add art, it gives you the option to save in tag or save as a separate file once you've selected the file you want to use as the album art. Also in MM, when you view the existing art associated with a song, MM will tell you if it's in a tag or a separate file.
I noticed many of the songs on my computer now contain three versions of album art - one as a tag, one as a separate file (both of these are associated as Cover(Front), and a third not associated as any particular image type. They are all the same picture, just attached to the song three different ways. Not sure how I did that.
I think some of this has to do with how (which mode) you copy the file to the player. I did a check of some of my music files on the fuze. The Album Art is stored on the Fuze in a separate file, not as part of the song (unlike what I said previously). I'm not sure how that happened either.
The more I dig into this, the less I am sure about. I hate to fool around too much since mine works. Good Luck!!
My Sansa e200R Rhapsody player and that is one reason why it would be difficult to close the Windows installation, since you can download music from Rhapsody client for free to the player because of my subscription.
Can you get wine to work with the recados para orkut Rhapsody client? Do you still use? I would add the Rhapsody player information in this guide, and give credit where credit is due.
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