music artwork not showing

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hi there. i have a sansa fuze+, 8gb model, and just updated the firmware to 2.38.06. thank goodness folder browsing is there! overall everything is ok, except none of my music artwork is displaying. i rip my cds using itunes, to mp3, and embed artwork inside itunes, so each track has an embedded image. mac finder displays the artwork when i select an mp3 file in finder, but the fuze+ just doesn’t seem to like what i’ve done.

any clues?

cheers

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I have never been able too get artwork to show, no matter what I do. Perhaps 1 in a thousand will display, but I have not figured out why.

MTP or MSC mode makes no difference. Drag and Drop as opposed to using deskto media player to transfer makes no difference.

A multitude of file sizes used - makes no difference.

The only way I have been able to display album covers, and it consistently shows them without manipulation, is to use Rockbox.

Rockbox also corrects a multitude of other issues, most notably a hyper-sensitive touchpad.

Do a Search on this board, and you will find lots of references to RB, plus the download/install process.

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@bhuvidya wrote:

. . . none of my music artwork is displaying. i rip my cds using itunes, to mp3, and embed artwork inside itunes, so each track has an embedded image. 

See this post over on the ABI forums. Although the player being referred to is different from your, the advice still applies. It appears iTunes by default writes a slightly different ID3 tag format than what Sansa players like. Re-tagging in MP3Tag solves the issue (provided you change the program’s Write default to ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1).