CD art missing in Wiim Home app for two CD's that I RIP'd

[paul_jr]

Can someone please help trouble shoot a problem that I am having? I RIP'd 130 CD's with Exact Audio Copy and then LAME to produce MP3 files, and then MusicBrainz for the metadata, and placed that in my Music folder of my DLNA server, and the Wiim Home App shows all of the artwork correctly for 128 CDs plus two CDs that show the 'artwork is missing' icon. I ran one of the two through MusicBrainz again, and that resulted in the exact same MP3 files. I ran the same MP3 files through Windows Media Player, and it sees the artwork.

I have a Wiim mini.

Can someone please help me troubleshoot this?

 

[Mr Ee]

Welcome.

Is there anything different about those two artworks? e.g. image size?
And... why convert to mp3? Why not save as flac from EAC?

 

[paul_jr]

New developments on this: the artwork is missing from the two CD's on BOTH the Wiim Home App, but it is also missing from an LG television that is able to access the DLNA media server when I uploaded the MP3 files. This new info suggests that the problem is with the DLNA server not the Wiim.

I saved it as MP3 just as my preference. I have a lot of experience with MP3 and no experience with FLAC.

 

[d6jg]

Is the cover art stored as cover.jpg or folder.jpg or only as embedded artwork in the files?

I’d also opt for FLAC

 

[paul_jr]

I believe that the artwork is embedded as metadata in the MP3 files themselves.

 

[d6jg]

Use something like mp3tag to interrogate the files and perhaps replace the cover art from a downloaded image at no more than 600x600

 

[simbun]

New developments on this: the artwork is missing from the two CD's on BOTH the Wiim Home App, but it is also missing from an LG television that is able to access the DLNA media server when I uploaded the MP3 files.

What music server are you using?

 

[Shrike]

Use something like mp3tag to interrogate the files and perhaps replace the cover art from a downloaded image at no more than 600x600

Any reason for limiting it to 600px?
I've settled to max 3000px or under 3MB, usually both happen with JPG's, as a PNG it needs to be half (1500px) to consistently be under 3 MB (I'm testing this out, thus not settling to one or the other).

I believe that the artwork is embedded as metadata in the MP3 files themselves.

Just add the file (cover.jpg) to the folder, usually that sorts it out. I've had similar problems in the past and resorted to this solution to be sure (I've previsouly had a Plex server, now I'm running MiniDLNA).
If it's a problem with the file, create a new file (first save as some other format like PNG, open that and then save again as JPG or what ever format you like).

 

[d6jg]

Any reason for limiting it to 600px?
I've settled to max 3000px or under 3MB, usually both happen with JPG's, as a PNG it needs to be half (1500px) to consistently be under 3 MB (I'm testing this out, thus not settling to one or the other).

3000px images embedded in every file will use up a lot of unnecessary disk space. 1 single cover.jpg or folder.jpg at 3000px is fine but the OP is embedding into MP3. 600px renders well on a phone, tablet or PC. OK not so good if you are displaying on a TV,

 

[rccarguy]

yes I'd do batch delete of huge jpeg. Not sure how though, I've probably got some, if it's using 500K per track multiply that by hundreds... a lot of wasted space, when all that's needed is max 800x800 in a single file

 

[d6jg]

yes I'd do batch delete of huge jpeg. Not sure how though, I've probably got some, if it's using 500K per track multiply that by hundreds... a lot of wasted space, when all that's needed is max 800x800 in a single file

Load all files into mp3tag, do Ctrl+A to select all, then Alt+T to bring up Advanced Tags - the embedded image window will say "cover varies" but hit Red X to delete anyway. Then Ctrl+S to Save.

Screenshot shows a few albums loaded, all selected and Alt+T pressed

 

[rccarguy]

Load all files into mp3tag, do Ctrl+A to select all, then Alt+T to bring up Advanced Tags - the embedded image window will say "cover varies" but hit Red X to delete anyway. Then Ctrl+S to Save.

Screenshot shows a few albums loaded, all selected and Alt+T pressed

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yes I'm aware of that, doing 300,000 tags would take too long, mp3tag doesn't seem to have a cached library when doing rescan it'll take hours. I've selected the option for monitoring the path, it's still slow

Ideally foorbar (I use foobar and it creates a database so it's fast) if there is a way to sort by size of embedded file, select those with anything bigger than 1000x1000 then delete embedded album art

 

[simbun]

Load all files into mp3tag, do Ctrl+A to select all, then Alt+T to bring up Advanced Tags - the embedded image window will say "cover varies" but hit Red X to delete anyway. Then Ctrl+S to Save.

Not forgetting to 'Utils > Optimise FLAC' (if you're using FLAC) if you want to recover the space taken up by the embedded image.