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Adding Album Art to the N95 Music Player

04 May 2007 · by Steve Litchfield
Applications, Troubleshooting, Miscellaneous S60 3rd Edition

Q. I have a Nokia N95 which I'm generally pretty happy with. One oddity is that, having copied over hundreds of MP3 and WMA music tracks, in named folders, from my PC onto my microSD card, none of them display the album artwork in the N95's Music player.

A. The display (or rather non-display) of album artwork is something of a magic art, there being several ways of implementing it (inside the MP3 files themselves, in separate files, etc.) Your problem is a common one and solving it will mean getting your hands dirty.

For each album/folder in your music collection, and those on your N95's memory card, there's probably a set of JPG picture files starting 'AlbumArt...', added by Windows Media Player (normally).

  1. Using any third party file manager (e.g. the free Y-Browser, at www.pushl.com/y_browser/), go into any albums/folders for which artwork doesn't display, select the largest artwork image and use 'File>Attributes' to set 'System' and 'Hidden' to 'No'.
  2. Once you've done all albums, start up Gallery and verify that all the cover images now get picked up OK.
  3. In Music Player's 'Album' list, highlight each one in turn and use 'Options>Album art'.
  4. Use 'Options>Change' and pick the appropriate cover from the displayed gallery. You'll be asked if it's OK to change the image for all tracks in the album.

Note that on the next PC Suite 'Image store' (depending on your settings) the original cover files may get archived off onto your 'My pictures' area on your hard disk, but S60's Music Player won't mind, it will already have made its own set of cover thumbnails and these won't be affected.

Phew! Having to go through this slightly fiddly procedure is a pain (blame Nokia and Microsoft) but it will only take a few minutes and is a one-time process!

PS. it's worth noting that another way to get the album art images onto your N95 is simply to grab them from Google Images and save them to a convenient folder..... It doesn't really matter whether you grab them from the Web or from your music folders, the end results the same!