Jukebox programs and Album Art???

[turbo6]

This may seem like a dumb question to many, but why don't any of the Jukebox programs read Album Art that is imbedded into the mp3 itself? I have around 1350 songs with the album art imbedded into the mp3's themselves, the songs are all in one folder. I know if I re-sort all the songs into separate folders and make the album art file available separately within the folders, everything works fine. But I really don't want to spend days sorting and doing the art file stuff...   
Any ideas on some jukebox apps to try. I have tried several but trying them all takes alot of time, hoping someone can shed some light on this? Thanks. 

[Barry Barcrest]

Well the album based ones tend to like the albums to each be in thier own folder, how you have the tracks set up is not the prefered method. I know it's a lot of work and not what you want to here but you will be better off in the long run sorting out those mp3's into folders.

[turbo6]

Yeah, I figured as much. Thanks for the reply. Any thoughts on the album art thing? Why do none of the jukebox software read the imbedded album art?

What are the chances of finding a reliable program to sort the mp3's automatically rather than having to do it all by hand? Slim? I figure... eh?

[Space Fractal]

use a batch tagger app like these:
http://www.id3-tagit.de/english/
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You should use a least one folder for each album, like this dirmask:
ALBUMS (ARTIST)/TRACK - TITLE.mp3 (i use)
or
ARTIST/ALBUMS/TRACK - TITLE.mp3 (most comon)

Hince if you split it under folders, coverart is normally named folder.jpg, like WMP use and most software here use the same screme.

So Coverarts is simply work better with folders (also one album per folder)...

[kizer]

I personally removed any art I had in my mp3's. Just bloats the mp3s and makes them well larger. By removing all the art and just having one image in a folder it reduces space over all. Sure thats nothing with 10 songs, but try having 8000+ songs.

[turbo6]

Thanks Space Fractal, that program saved me alot of time reorganizing and resorting my mp3's. Now I just have to do the album art. Your help is greatly appreciated. 

[Barry Barcrest]

Sorry i have been away (New Daughter and stuff). Anyway for your album art you can use Tag&Rename to pull the art out of the mp3's and save it to a file. Once you have done that you can remove it from the MP3 file to save space. When i tried reading from the mp3 file i found it too slow and that is why i didn't impliement it in freebox.

[Space Fractal]

It the same reason from Barcrest, why I myself never supported embedded coverarts in my app, and I even have it on my mp3 files (some do may have small cover icons).

In MultiJuke (and some others) it a much faster to read form the filemask structure, rathar than pull it from id3 tags (wich can been pretty slow in large collection)....