Hi, I was wondering if it would be possible to add a different Album Cover and Single Cover.
I am currently making an album of one of my favourite artists with their released Singles and Features. These songs all have different covers and most likely when I put this "album" on my iPhone iTunes or any car, it will display the cover art of the first song as album cover and the individual song covers when playing the songs.
Would it be possible to have 1 specific album cover when scrolling through albums (different from the first song), but when playing the song it shows the song cover?
I keep the album artist and album title the same so I am positive that works.
AFAIK it depends on the file type how many pictures can be embedded. And then it depends a lot on the features of the player how many of these embedded images will be displayed - or how it has to be tricked to behave in the desired way if that can be achieved at all.
In this case, I doubt that iTunes works like that.
I think that the Microsoft family shows the picture from the file folder.jpg as album cover and when playing, it shows the first embedded picture.
Hello Casper1, ohrenkino raises an excellent point with Itunes and the way Microsoft works
I have been in the world of Radio for 15 years, it is true that each AUDIO Single can have its cover for each song...
When you are going to place your Single songs in an album, you will have a cover for the album, this is the way of proceeding...
When ohrenkino mentioned Itunes, it reminded me of something, on this music platform, sometimes, artists especially in the United States, place an album cover in GIF file, which allows either a video or that we see some images scrolling...
When you send your songs to Radio stations, you can mention that you have a GIF file for the album cover
Radios that have an Internet Radio system with the image and most of the systems that manage the images can place the GIF covers and we can see the image change during the song
I have already done tests for an FM Radio, it A few years ago, during radio broadcasts with a GIF file, we could see 2 images, the title of the show and the other image the photo of the host that scrolled during the show...
This shows even more that the display of embedded pictures depends on the features of a player.
The ID3 standard officially supports embedded pictures in jpg or png format - but not gif, probably due to licence problems.
So it is a question of how much luck you have to get a player that supports gif. But this would also mean that the next player does not show anything at all.
Hello ohrenkino, following what you wrote, I decided to do some tests...
For the license about ID3, I don't know? But I know that for licenses for a few years, it is better regulated than before, especially in Europe, I believe that your laws are better adapted than in America from what I have been told...
It is true that the GIF file is very limited, several programs do not manage it (Mp3tag, VLC etc) I have just done tests with some more specialized programs that make the first image of the GIF appear, without animation and without changing the format
I have just done another test, which I had not tested before on Itunes, what surprised me the most with Itunes, they promote GIF files, when selling songs on their WEB site, if you buy the song, on Itunes, you receive the song with a JPG image
If you place a GIF image in Itunes, it takes the image and changes the format to PNG?
On a website equipped with a radio server that manages images, it works very well, I believe that programming images in a server, includes GIF mode, a programmer, had already mentioned this to me a few years ago...
@Casper1 I can confirm some of the lore behind what you are trying to do. Unfortunately im on android & windows 11 as such I can only attest to my experiences within those operating systems.
Using oto music & Symfonium (mobile apps) I was able to get this working. Both these apps have specific settings to show "per track album art."
With mp3tag you can embed multiple album arts to one file & you can also embed different album art per track. In my experience the first album art that is embeded is what appears in windows & in the music players I've tired on android. This held true irregardless of whether the first cover was a "back cover" "artist cover" or "front cover" whataver image is the first up in mp3tag is what is visible.
If your player has the capability to show per track album art then youre golden...if not then whataver song is first in the album will most likely set the album art for all the files. It is possible your player may support per track album art by default but I think thats unlikely you'd have to test out.
