Hello,

I recently installed a Mandrake 10.1 on my computer. I\'m a Windows Xp user trying to migrate to Linux.

I have a lot of mp3\'s and i\'ve worked hard to encode the ID3 tags properly. I\'ve encoded artist, album, track number, released year and the cover for each file. I encoded everything with musicmatch jukebox 7.5.

I\'m very inerested in Amarok because of the cover manager. That feature would permit me to completely abandon commercial softwares and use Linux with Amarok. Yes but.... I don\'t understand, Amarok reads my ID3 tags for the artist, album, released year etc... but not for my covers.

I\'ve searched a lot on internet and in the forums but i\'m very surprised i couldn\'t find a topic about this exact problem. I\'ve seen in the FAQ that if some informations of the ID3v2 tag don\'t appear, i have to see in the decoding options of Amarok, which was not possible with the original version of Mandrake 10.1. I installed the latest versionof Amarok (1.2.4 i think) and I found those decoding options. I uncheck the two checkboxes but it does not change anything. I suppose I have to tell Amarok with set of characters it has to use for decoding, using the list available. But I have absolutely no idea of which one I have to choose... I also browsed internet to know about that, but I could not find.

Any help would be very apreciated.


franz

amaroK 1.3 reads images from id3v2 tags.

But beware, due to a bug in TagLib 1.3, it can sometimes crash. We strongly recommend to upgrade to TagLib 1.4, which will be released soon (or use TagLib SVN).

Thanks, i stop browsing the whole web to find a solution and just try to install 1.3 !

It works, thanks. The only thing is that the cover manager displays the covers only once it has played a song from the album. Is there a way to tell Amarok : \"Before opening the cover manager, could you pliz look in the id3 tags for covers?\"

But does it *store* cover art images into id3 tags?