Long ago, I had to keep the size of cover art down, that it would display on my awesome Sansa Fuse media player. I stuck to something like 140 × 140 pixel JPEGs, which was usually less than 20 KB. A while ago, I started using 300 × 300 pixel JPEGs, which I imagine is very conservative. I've held on…

Here is a discussion about the picture size: [image] Bitmap size in pixels and something at Gibson forums General Discussion Back in the day, we had to keep our cover art to a certain size, else our players might not display it. I used an old Sansa Fuze, and learned to kee…

Great question. I've inched larger myself over the years. 300x300 was my go-to for years, mainly for storage concerns. Now I use 600x600 for almost all covers, if I'm newly tagging something. Storage is no longer a concern (thank you 4TB SSD). I used to listen to most of my music while driving, so …

Good old iTunes at one point had a minimum of 600px² for music to be uploaded to their site. I believe this has started to creep up to 1000px² (maybe more?) but I don't know if this goes back to older files that are still on their site for purchase now. I think as the file sizes for lossless media …

[image] MotleyG: I think as the file sizes for lossless media that has moved to 24 and even 32 bit depth and very high sample rates, these picture sizes are still small in comparison. This probably wasn't true back in the earlier, lossy, high compression mp3 days when storage was at a much highe…

FLAC: 1600×1600 (or _×1600) pixel, max. 512 KB embed, 1 image (front) MP3 (and all lossy): 850×850 (or _×850) pixel, max. 96 KB embed, 1 image (front) 1 album/folder, folder.jpg in it, 200×200 pixel, max 64 KB (usually much less); to see folders as images (when i want) in Total Commander. +1 folde…

[image] incifinci: If you can not identify (=differentiate) a file in blind test, that all is unnecessary quality. This is subjective of course, dependent on the quality of the original source material and the playback hardware. However one could argue that regardless, there is at least a val…

As your example shows, requirements can change over the time. So I would say: the best quality available at the time of ripping. Otherwise you are forced to do it all over again once your environment changes.

[image] ohrenkino: the best quality available at the time of ripping. +1 :+1: with a small modification: The best quality available at the time of tagging

[image] 0LD3_DUDE: [...] What is a good size today? 600 × 600? 1,000 × 1,000? Higher? I would rather ask question: what will be good enough size in a foreseeable future? So that your choice will be viewed as a good one something like a decade from now

This "embedding" is new to me, unless this describes what MP3Tag does with album art. If MP3Tag is "embedding," my apologies. I never labelled the process; I just did it. I am now in the habit of saving the largest bitmap I can find for any given album in the associated folder as "cover.jpg" and re…

It's 2022: What size cover art do you use?

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ohrenkino May 31, 2022, 5:06pm 2

Here is a discussion about the picture size: