16-Sep-2015, 13:00
Cover art - this may be of interest to some other Aurender users:
Much of my (mostly classical) music library originates from some years ago, when the cover art size was very small, appropriate to an early iPod screen. Being quite impressed with the way the Aurender app handles both front and back HD cover art, I bit the bullet and have now upgraded all my albums with high quality images from various sources, but often by scanning CD covers.
I'm pleased with the result but was yet more impressed when I played one particular album and was idly looking at the covers when the image became magically overlaid by reams of programme notes about the violin concerto being played. My first reaction was to check the text against the CD booklet (PDF supplied as part of the download), and confirmed that that was probably the source, but the PDF file was certainly not filed on the Aurender's disc. With the help of Tagscanner, I eventually located the text hiding in the metadata in the "lyrics" tag.
The CD was from Hyperion, and other of their CD downloads also have similarly embedded programme notes, but I haven't yet come across any CDs from elsewhere with such text, though I imagine some pop albums may well be furnished with lyrics of the songs. Of course it's simple to copy/paste text from a supplied PDF booklet into a track as part of the cleanup of the metatdata that's often required when adding a new CD download into the library. I've no idea if there's any limit to the amount of text that can be embedded in this way, but some may appreciate having this feature available.
Much of my (mostly classical) music library originates from some years ago, when the cover art size was very small, appropriate to an early iPod screen. Being quite impressed with the way the Aurender app handles both front and back HD cover art, I bit the bullet and have now upgraded all my albums with high quality images from various sources, but often by scanning CD covers.
I'm pleased with the result but was yet more impressed when I played one particular album and was idly looking at the covers when the image became magically overlaid by reams of programme notes about the violin concerto being played. My first reaction was to check the text against the CD booklet (PDF supplied as part of the download), and confirmed that that was probably the source, but the PDF file was certainly not filed on the Aurender's disc. With the help of Tagscanner, I eventually located the text hiding in the metadata in the "lyrics" tag.
The CD was from Hyperion, and other of their CD downloads also have similarly embedded programme notes, but I haven't yet come across any CDs from elsewhere with such text, though I imagine some pop albums may well be furnished with lyrics of the songs. Of course it's simple to copy/paste text from a supplied PDF booklet into a track as part of the cleanup of the metatdata that's often required when adding a new CD download into the library. I've no idea if there's any limit to the amount of text that can be embedded in this way, but some may appreciate having this feature available.