[iTunes] Re: Album Art Tips

[Thubten Kunga]

Dear Tony,
I can't thank you enough for this research. For a list that has gone 
mostly inactive until now, I can see we have some amazing members. 
Pardon my ignorance, but I have never heard of AllMusicGuide. What is 
the URL please?

Kunga

On Saturday, May 3, 2003, at 09:04  AM, Tony Wilson wrote:

> Here are some preliminary findings which may cause some to re-think 
> their album art strategies:
>
> While individual cover art file sizes are small, the real size change 
> of the mp3/acc is much greater!
>
> Source             	pic Size	file Size	mp3/acc file size gain
>
> AllMusicGuide		200x200	 20kb	  52kb per
>
> Amazon.com   	300x300	  24kb	  116kb per
>
> WalMart.com   	500x500	  48kb	  195kb per
>
> iTunes Store    	340x340	   ?  	  170kb per
>
>
> I got these figures by measuring an album folder size before and after 
> adding artwork and dividing by track file count. This was reversed in 
> the files from the iTunes store; I measure the folder size then 
> deleted the album art. This was done only on a small sample so others 
> may get varying results.
>
> This suggests the actual and cumulative effect of adding album art is 
> much greater than just measuring the album art file size as a separate 
> jpeg file. If these numbers are consistent then I will NOT be adding 
> large art to every mp3/acc file. Instead I'll use the smaller AMG 
> cover art on all except the first song file in an album folder. I'll 
> only add huge and multiple artwork to the first song file.
>
> -------------
> Tony