What media player do you use?

Well, that's basically what a shuffle is. It's just that this way iTunes shows you ahead of time what the shuffle playlist is going to look like.

If you want it the "old school" way just go to PARTY SHUFFLE, pick a playlist, make sure both recently played and up coming songs is setat 0 and press play.

-Erik-

Winamp + Winamp iPod plugin + iPod (4G Photo).
Getting an iPhone from work in a couple of weeks, so don't know what I'll do with it then.

If I'm not mistaken the art work gets embedded into each file.

-Erik-

I use Winamp and jetAudio.

I'm not sure whether to post this here or over at the "what's annoying your currently" but I'm having such a bloody hard time adding album art to my mp3 player.

Album art was something that was never automatically gathered during ripping - many CDs didn't have any artwork that came up. I knew that I wouldn't be able to add artwork directly to my player's files and that I would have to add them to the the file on my PC and then swap them onto my player.

I've been tagging tracks all day long - which is good for playing on the PC - but when I transferred some newly-tagged tracks from Cuore Sacro over the artwork was nowhere to be found.

Looking at other forum pages I found an 18-page topic where people were moaning about all the problems of transferring files with artwork over to my brand of player. And solutions ranged from using MediaMonkey, updating WMP 11 to re-formatting the player and starting again. But artwork isn't that important for that last option.

So, again...

And I can go off to bed feeling a little bit better - a little.

I use mp3tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/download.html) for embedding the album artworks.

He is mistaken. There is a specific folder that gets referenced by the iTunes program.

That is true. I didn't fully utilize the album cover feature until Coverflow was in place. And dammit, that's a resource hog. I wish I could go back to iTunes 6 but then I wouldn't be able to use it.

Album artwork is embedded with the tracks using MediaMonkey. Viewed there artwork shows up no problem. And in other players such as Creative MediaSource. Transfer the tracks to the player and the artwork is not visible. Play the tracks from my player via MediaSource and artwork isn't seen.

So, I think that I've tagged the tracks just fine. But there's something that's preventing the player from seeing the artwork?

I have a 60GB Creative Zen Vision:M and I've always just drag-and-dropped files/folders with the Windows Explorer equivalent that opens up when I plug in my player.

I've always shunned automatically syncronising between my PC and player.

I'm baffled too. And as far as I can tell, most people are baffled too!

I thought that MediaMonkey did tag the artwork within the music file? It's certainly "tagging" when I drag-and-drop the artwork into the album art section of MediaMonkey.

Well, I downloaded Tag&Rename and tried it on a couple of albums. But, still no artwork. God knows what the problem is!

...I've never had this problem with my iPod.

If you're gonna kill me, at least give me a soldier's death.

Anthony: Thanks, I assumed that there's a certain part of the music file that can store the information that forms the artwork rather than have the actual image. Maybe there's a limit to how large the original file is that can be stored as information in the tag.

Steven:Was that a knock at the door? 'Cause I've sent "the boys" round!

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