Cover art woes in music files

[Steve Freeman]

Definitely don't remove embedded images.  For music Jellyfin likes embedded images and, in my experience, works better with them vs having an image in the folder.
You can use an app like Musicbrainz Picard to auto-magically tag and embedded images in a way that Jellyfin tends to like.  Because of the nature of music and how many different ways it can be organized you will still need to tweak things to get them how you like.  But Picard will do the majority of the work.

I wasn't going to remove embedded artwork (it's 60k files - and although it can be done with a single click, the overall copy-for-backup time is horrendous), but I'm happy tinker with a few test folders!

As you can see from my other posts today, I have shown that in my usage case, the embedded artwork is apparently not used by Jellyfin, at least it is not used to make the resized images that are blurry in the screenshots from my media app.  I have other media players that rely on embedded artwork.

I'm not sure what you mean by embedding images "in a way that Jellyfin tends to like" - can you explain?  The embedded artwork is 100% *.jpg (scanned by a "trid.exe" script that checks picture content against file extension and corrects, say .bmp to .jpg automatically). The size is 220x220. The tag is "Front Cover" and is a standard ID3V2.3 tag type used by MP3tag - the embedded art in my files appears to work everywhere else.

As it happens, I use MP3tag with AlbumArtDownloader set up in it as an automated tool, because it offers artwork choices from multiple sources, so I can get the exact cover art that matches my CDs (for example the US or UK cover of Electric Ladyland, if you are familiar, or special expanded albums with slightly different covers, or remasters etc). I'm pretty familiar with tagging!

As I said in the other post, there may a weird interaction between my media player and the artwork it pulls off the server, or a Jellyfin setting I've failed to notice. I'm pretty sure the the blurred images I'm seeing are the 48x48 thumbnail sized ones I can see in the cache of Jellyfin, but I'm stuck to know how to fix it. Maybe I need a config file specially for my Evo media player? Who knows....

Thanks for your interest though - maybe a developer will see this and say "Aha - I see what he's wrong here"