If you, like me, have been purchasing through Amazon MP3 downloads, a new problem has come up. If you are seeing your album art like this...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=627359
I figured out a solution. It may not be elegant, but it works. The problem, simply put, is Amazon includes a .jpg file in the id3 tags. Amarok dlslikes this immensely. No matter what I did, unset cover, download from Amazon, etc, the album art alsways showed corrupted. Using EasyTag, I deleted the album art from the id3 tags on a few songs, no joy. When I moved them out of my music library, let Amarok update itself, remove the entries from the playlist, then move them back, all was serene again.
So, I bulk moved all the songs with embedded album art out of the library, used Easy Tag to remove the image, deleted the songs from the playlist and moved them back.
So, until Amarok fixes this, download MP3s from Amazon to a "staging location", remove the art, then move them into your library location.
I have no idea if removing the image affects any Windows app from downloading album art to a portable player (i.e is the tag the source of the art it downloads?).
hlrguy
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