A Streaming Question

[gr8sho92]

Originally Posted by VAXman

MP3 itself is only an audio format. However, there was an addition/enhancement/augmentation of the original specs to include metadata. This is referred to as ID3v2 tag data. It's data placed at the beginning or end of the MP3 stream and it is usually data which describes other data. Therefore, it might contain a URL to a site serving the album art for the track playing. It's up to the player to handle decoding and delivering the data in the ID3 tag.

Does the AuralMoon music library have the album art tag data?

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by gr8sho92

Does the AuralMoon music library have the album art tag data?

That's a question for the folks at Spacial Audio.

SAM has links to graphic stored as URL on the web server. The images are stored on the web server. When a track is played, the web site gets the info from the SAM SQL database and then uses that URL into to display the album art on the web site.

[gr8sho92]

Originally Posted by VAXman

That's a question for the folks at Spacial Audio.

SAM has links to graphic stored as URL on the web server. The images are stored on the web server. When a track is played, the web site gets the info from the SAM SQL database and then uses that URL into to display the album art on the web site.

That wasn't quite my question, but you may have indirectly answered it. The method of displaying album art was explained to me once. Seems to me that if the album art was included in the MP3 file itself during the encoding process, then that solves part of the equation. I go to great lengths to include album art in my personal library so it is always available to any player that I choose to play music.