Since installing ver 3.29, I am unable to add or change the cover art on .flac files that are in or being added to my collection, but I am still able to add or change it for .mp3 files. The cover art shows up in Mp3tag but does not write to the file itself as you can see from the pic attached. If I…

[image] Rohnan: The cover art shows up in Mp3tag but does not write to the file itself If your issue is that cover images are not being written to FLAC files, then when you reload those same FLAC files into Mp3 tag, their covers should be missing. Are they in fact missing? If not, that mean…

[image] Rohnan: as you can see from the pic attached I don't see any attached pictures see e.g. here: [image] V. 3.29 Introduced Microsoft Media Player Errors For Me Support The format MP3 seems not to have the same limit for embedded cover artwork. You can view …

How big are your cover art pictures? There is a limit of 16 MB for embedded cover pictures in FLAC files. See - for example - here: [image] Unable to remove/write tags for FLAC files with 16 MB+ embedded cover No Bugs FLAC has a limitation of ~16MB because the length fie…

[image] Rohnan: to show up in Winamp AFAI can tell, your picture shows the WIndows Explorer and not Winamp. So, where don't you see the covers? If it is the WIndows Explorer, then I do not see many options to get a picture in flac files.

Sorry for omitting the pic. I don't have much experience with forums anymore. I am not doing anything different with 3.29 than I did with any of the previous versions over the years. To be sure I spot checked the file sizes, none are over a meg & most are generally ~500k or less. Also the pics w…

The linked threads offer some more ways to test what the cause may be. Which did you try with which result?

[image] Rohnan: Thanks for your suggestions. Just to be sure: Do you speak about the small preview picture in the Windows Explorer? The one that currently looks like a white paper with the Winamp Logo? [image] Do you want to see the real embedded cover art picture there for flac files?

Yes LyricsLover, that is what I am talking about!! Thank you for figuring out what I was trying to get at. Getting the cover art to show up on the explorer icon instead of the winamp logo. It always showed up via updating through Mp3tag unless it was already native to the file I was importing unt…

[image] Doug_Mackie: there is an excellent freeware utility called Icaros Shell Extensions Good idea. Icaros can provide Windows Explorer thumbnails, for essentially any video media format supported by FFmpeg, this includes popular filetypes such as: Mkv, Flv, Avi, Mp4, Mov, Rmvb, M2ts, Ogm…

Thank you Doug_Mackie! You were absolutely correct. For some reason, I decided to do some cleanup in my system & uninstalled Icaros right around the time that 3.29 came out. I just installed 3.3.3 & all is right in my thumbnail world again. I guess I am getting more forgetful of tech details as m…

Issue with cover art writing to mp3 files but not to flac files in 3.20

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LyricsLover May 7, 2025, 7:07pm 3

How big are your cover art pictures?

There is a limit of 16 MB for embedded cover pictures in FLAC files.

See - for example - here: