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FiiO album art

April 09, 2019 in bliss past

Let's look at another portable howdy-fi manufacturer's album art support. This week we accept a look at the players from FiiO, a Chinese electronics company. Like other companies covered on these pages, FiiO concentrate on the "high-end" howdy-fi section of the portable music role player market.

iPods these ain't...

As is common in the portable hi-fi market, the players have high quality DACs alongside large displays from which you can playlist music. So: the aforementioned old story; the music sounds corking, but music library navigation is very dependent on how well you accept previously organised your library.

One of the more of import aspects of music library management is cover art. Artwork is important because it makes browsing and identifying music easier... plus it just looks absurd!.

However, the software on the FiiO histrion needs to know where to observe the cover art that is in the library. Even if you've put effort into finding the artwork already, if it's not stored in the correct manner the FiiO won't show it.

The rules by which FiiO players find artwork are not documented in their manuals. Luckily their forums accept more information, so instead I researched to find the rules that worked for people. If you take whatsoever to add together, please let me know in the comments beneath! The rules for artwork I found are:

• Artwork tin can be embedded. (except for OGG files)
• A carve up epitome file tin can be used. This should either be the same name as the music file or, if not, the image that is alphabetically-first will be called.
• Artwork should be nether 1MB in size.
• Artwork should be below 1024x1024 for PNGs, or 8192x8192 for JPEGs.Given the deviation in file size between PNGs/JPEGs, this sounds like the 1MB limit restated.
• PNG, JPEG and BMP only are supported.

Using bliss nosotros tin can automate the fixing of our existing artwork so it displays in FiiO players, and also encode and store the rules and then future music also shows its artwork.

Step by stride

First, download and install bliss. There are downloads for other platforms on our download page in example you're downloading for a NAS or another device.

Later installing, start elation; the first page will let yous to locate your music files and configure elation to set up anthology art:

Now, locate your music library in the albums section. Utilize the Browse button to find the binder in which your music is stored. You can do this straight on the device if it's connected to the computer and the bulldoze is mapped to a drive proper name (Windows) or mounted to a binder (macOS, Linux).

At present nosotros can configure the rules we listed higher up. First click the Discover missing comprehend fine art button. This allows us to set the locations for cover art. Here nosotros encode the rules higher up:

I've elected to salvage the paradigm file in a separate cover file, this volition hateful cover.jpeg or whatever extension is appropriate for the format of the image file. Every bit FiiO players support embedded art y'all could omit this setting by clicking the '10' next to cover.

Click Add rule; this just saves the dominion, it won't apply information technology yet.

Nosotros also need to add together an prototype format rule to allow merely JPEGs, PNGs or BMPs. Click Add a rule > Image formats > Configure and then select the advisable formats:

We should also add a dominion for the maximum data size. Click Add a dominion > Maximum information size (KB) > Configure and and so select the advisable size:

After you click Add together dominion you'll detect the Transmission/Automatic switch. This configures bliss's behaviour when information technology sees a non-compliant piece of existing art. If y'all already take art and it'due south over 1MB, and you accept this set to Automated, elation volition compress the artwork for yous. Otherwise, y'all'll go a one-click fix to perform the shrinking manually.

I've decided not to add together a rule for maximum resolution. This is possible with elation, but I recollect it's derived from the 1MB maximum data size, so I full-bodied on that. In addition, the resolution is documented to depend on the format, and we don't take a way to vary it co-ordinate to the format.

At present our rule list is complete:

Click Apply rules to kickoff elation scanning for albums and fixing artwork.

Any album without a comprehend.jpeg or embedded art volition accept those filled. bliss uses, in gild of preference, existing art (from comprehend.jpeg or embedded if they exist) or if there's no existing art, bliss performs a lookup and finds the artwork online, embedding information technology in the right places.

Any existing artwork which is not in the correct format or is as well large will be identified. The size rules tin be automatic, just the image format rule volition not be fixed automatically. We'll become a ane-click fix for that after.

Any albums with non-compliant artwork are identified:

Y'all can besides make fixes in batch on the Inbox page.

Ane last pace

Near devices need to exist "rescanned" to re-read the updated music files and any newly added or stock-still album fine art.

With the FiiO music histrion app shipped with the device, you can practice this from the role player itself past clicking: Settings icon > Scan for songs > Scan all music.

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I promise this helps fixing your album art for your FiiO device! If yous have any more tips about organising your music library for these devices, please let us know in the comments (or send the states an e-mail).

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