Greyscale palette is greatly reduced when resizing images

For grayscale (greyscale) JPEGs, Adjust Cover downsamples the image from 256 to 4 colors and outputs a non-greyscale JPEG.

8-bit grayscale images should maintain their colorspace during and after conversion.

Example: Drag attached 1000px 8-bit (256-color) grayscale image into cover art box. Right-click and choose Adjust Cover. Resize to 600px, any quality. Observe unwanted color reduction. Right-click and save the reduced image to a new file. Observe (e.g. in Photoshop) that it's not a grayscale JPEG anymore, and with compression artifacts it now has ~119 colors, but was clearly derived from the 4-color intermediate version.

Output after adjustment in Mp3tag:

Expected output is more like this (made with Photoshop):

Thank you for reporting this issue. I found a solution to this problem and have fixed it with Mp3tag v3.22e.

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