How do I set the Front cover as the default

albiekOH330 · September 27, 2021, 11:41am

I have both the back cover and front cover downloaded from Picard. If I open another program such as mp3tag. It shows the back cover as the default. How do I make the front cover always be the default on Picard, if I open mp3tag, the front cover is in the first spot

ernstlx · September 27, 2021, 12:27pm

I noticed this problem too. I can only configure one name for all downloaded images and other applications are confused by 3 or more same names (only numbered).
… and as you say, Picard is confused too (just tested), but that’s possibly a bug.

outsidecontext · September 27, 2021, 1:43pm

What file format are you tagging? Some tools are not honoring the cover art type in e.g. ID3 tags but just use the very first image they encounter in the file. My assumption would be that maybe the back cover ends up as the first image in the file. Not sure if mp3tag is a good test here, it might just shows front images first (which would make sense).

For the image ordering there is an open ticket for Picard. Ideally we would save images so front images are at first position.

Unfortunately this is currently blocked by support in mutagen, the library being used by Picard to access the file tags. See

github.com/quodlibet/mutagen

Issues with ID3 ordering of APIC frames

opened 01:38PM - 19 Dec 19 UTC

phw

The ID3 classes store frames sorted by some frame ID priority, then frame size a…nd hash. This causes some issues when storing APIC frames of different type. The user might expect certain image types, such as "Leaflet page" to be saved in a certain order. Further more images of type "Cover (front)" might be expedted first. In regards to sorting images of different types sorting them by data length does not make too much sense. For the second issue I found actually a concrete example: Previews in the Nautilus file browser seem to always use the first APIC frame no matter the type. So files don't necessarily get shown with their actual cover but just with the smalles APIC frame. At a minimum I propose to change the sorting to: - Keep same frame IDs together - For APIC frames, sort type 3 "Cover (front)" first But I think it might be even better to generally leave APIC frames in the order they were provided. @lazka Thoughts?