06-03-2021, 06:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-03-2021, 06:43 PM by TheOldPresbyope.
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@Nautilus
Hmmm, M4A files (e.g., MPEG-4 with audio but not video). Do all the tracks which don't display cover art happen to be M4a files? This is a container format with little industry-wide standardization of content. I suspect many people believe that whatever iTunes does is "the standard." The few test tracks I've downloaded seem to work in moOde vis-a-vis metadata and embedded cover art.
Here's data from a test track I downloaded from Hyperion some time ago; I expect most iTunes tracks would be similar.
As you can see, mediainfo says the file contains cover art but, because of the nature of M4A apparently, it doesn't try to figure out the image format of the cover art. Perhaps @Tim Curtis can comment on image formats embedded in M4A which are acceptable to moOde's cover art routines. I'd rather not try to interpret the applicable php module(s).
Do you see any log messages containing "coverart: m4a:" or "thmcache: m4a"?
I'll be away from my keyboard for a while to pack more boxes. Maybe others will pick up the chase in the meantime.
Regards,
Kent
ETA - PS I didn't notice Tim's reply before I posted this
Hmmm, M4A files (e.g., MPEG-4 with audio but not video). Do all the tracks which don't display cover art happen to be M4a files? This is a container format with little industry-wide standardization of content. I suspect many people believe that whatever iTunes does is "the standard." The few test tracks I've downloaded seem to work in moOde vis-a-vis metadata and embedded cover art.
Here's data from a test track I downloaded from Hyperion some time ago; I expect most iTunes tracks would be similar.
Code:
pi@moode:/media/MUSIC/SampleTracks/Hyperion/Orchestral $ mediainfo 18*M4A
General
Complete name : 18 MacCunn The Lay of the Last Minstrel - Part 2 Final chorus O Caledonia! stern and wild.M4A
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Apple audio with iTunes info
Codec ID : M4A (M4A /mp42/isom)
File size : 14.5 MiB
Duration : 2 min 54 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 696 kb/s
Album : Maccunn: Land of the Mountain & the Flood
Album/Performer : Martyn Brabbins: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Part/Position : 1
Part/Total : 1
Track name : MacCunn: The Lay of the Last Minstrel - Part 2. Final chorus: O Caledonia! stern and wild
Track name/Position : 18
Track name/Total : 18
Performer : Martyn Brabbins: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Composer : MacCunn, Hamish (1868-1916)
Genre : Classical
Recorded date : 1995
Copyright : © Hyperion Records Ltd, London
Cover : Yes
Lyrics : Chorus: O Caledonia! stern and wild, / Meet nurse for a poetic child! / Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, / Land of the mountain and the flood. / Land of my sires! What mortal hand / Can e’er untie the filial band, / That knits me to thy rugged strand! / / Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) / / This concluding recitative and chorus (from MacCunn’s dramatic cantata of 1888) is the vocal expression of the same passage from Scott’s poem which inspired Land of the Mountain and the Flood. No composer was more fitted to attempt this theme than MacCunn. Had not his father-in-law famously painted him as Bonnie Prince Charlie? Was he not handsome in the lists of love as the winning suitor in the painting Two Strings to her Bow? Had not Queen Victoria herself seen in him a likeness to his compatriot Byron, only more handsome? Was he not the epitome of a modern bardic revival, not hoary-headed and despairing, but youthful, daring to re-assert what the old bard recalled only as a lost world? / So it is that MacCunn makes no doomed attempt to resurrect a bardic manner. His is a triumphant cry of modern nationhood, cultural and political, and his setting is a thrilling monument to the memory of his genius, spent to extend the road of Scotland’s cultural destiny, fearless and still bearing the brand of youth. / from notes by John Purser © 1995 / / Album notes: / Hamish MacCunn: the name itself is a kind of bold statement, and if ever there was a composer who emerged from the glens and firths of Scotland, fully armed, the MacCunn was that person. Yet this is the first recording devoted solely to his work and, with the exception of Land of the Mountain and the Flood, the first of any of his orchestral music. / John Purser © 1995
UPC : 0034571168159
Source : CD (Lossless) >> CD (Lossless) [wav]
cond : Martyn Brabbins
Audio
ID : 1
Format : ALAC
Codec ID : alac
Codec ID/Info : Apple Lossless Audio Codec
Duration : 2 min 54 s
Source duration : 2 min 54 s
Source_Duration_LastFrame : -13 ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 684 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 14.3 MiB (98%)
Source stream size : 14.3 MiB (98%)
Language : English
mdhd_Duration : 174800As you can see, mediainfo says the file contains cover art but, because of the nature of M4A apparently, it doesn't try to figure out the image format of the cover art. Perhaps @Tim Curtis can comment on image formats embedded in M4A which are acceptable to moOde's cover art routines. I'd rather not try to interpret the applicable php module(s).
Do you see any log messages containing "coverart: m4a:" or "thmcache: m4a"?
I'll be away from my keyboard for a while to pack more boxes. Maybe others will pick up the chase in the meantime.
Regards,
Kent
ETA - PS I didn't notice Tim's reply before I posted this
