Cover art not showing up for songs downloaded from Apple Music

  • 6 November 2021
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biggetjeindewei
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I do  have a way that works great so far:

Extract cover art (.jpg) from music file, import in any paint program, save as .tiff, load .tiff and save again as .jpg.

Had something to do with Density Unit IIRC, forgot what exactly.

 

But why is this work around needed? I need to do that for at least the last year, regardless if I buy old or new songs. I don’t think this is a Sonos issue, as I need to do the same for my Sony (digital) Walkman.

Anyone has a solution or suggestion?

 

Maurice
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Ken_Griffiths

I do  have a way that works great so far:

Extract cover art (.jpg) from music file, import in any paint program, save as .tiff, load .tiff and save again as .jpg.

Had something to do with Density Unit IIRC, forgot what exactly.

 

But why is this work around needed? I need to do that for at least the last year, regardless if I buy old or new songs. I don’t think this is a Sonos issue, as I need to do the same for my Sony (digital) Walkman.

Anyone has a solution or suggestion?

 

Perhaps it’s something related to the embedded Cover Art image resolution. See this support document for the Art requirements: 

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/543

biggetjeindewei
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Thanks for the reply, but both resolution, dpi and file size are within Sonos requirements.
Very strange

 

Maurice
Ken_Griffiths

I can’t assist, but the case it shows the same for the Walkman seems to infer there is an issue with the embedded Art to begin with, I guess … but agree it’s a strange one.🤷‍♂️

C

Have you tried saving the art in the album folder, as described in the link?

if you do so you may have to remove the embedded art from the files.

biggetjeindewei
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Thanks for the suggestions!

I like to have the cover art embedded into the file instead of separate in a folder.

Converting the file into .iff and back to .jpg does work, but I was surprised that I need to do that for each download for the last 1~2 years. So, was wondering if more people encountered this issue.

Maurice
Ken_Griffiths

Thanks for the suggestions!

I like to have the cover art embedded into the file instead of separate in a folder.

Converting the file into .iff and back to .jpg does work, but I was surprised that I need to do that for each download for the last 1~2 years. So, was wondering if more people encountered this issue.

My album art is both embedded in each track and stored as a .jpg in each Album folder, but not sure which art gets chosen by Sonos, presumably it’s folder.jpg? - in my case both are the same Art image anyway and set to just 600x600 pixels. I run all my purchased/ripped music tracks through mp3Tag software and that seems to quickly sort my tagging needs and the Art. 

The reason I store the cover art in each of those places, is that over the years, I’ve seen some tracks lose their embedded art, or the file in the album folder gets overwritten - I’m not sure why or by what, not by Sonos as far as I can tell (it’s read-only), but quite possibly by other Apps .. it’s one of life’s mysteries in my own case, but now and again I go through the library and give the tracks a bit of a tidy up.

el rubio

hi @biggetjeindewei if you buy tracks with iTunes or Apple Music then the cover art is not stored in the metadata of the music track - this is why I always copy paste a jpg file again in the Artwork tab of a music track to make sure it is stored in the metadata

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