Other Album art

[Wile E Coyote]

Finally got round to creating an mp3/wma disc to try in the CD player of my Type S.

As described in other places on the site there were a few things I had to put right like burning the disc as data not multi-media/music and changing the display by holding down the Disp button to get the first 11 characters of the song title/artist then Disp again to get the next 11 but finally I have a disc that does what it should.

I'd made sure that system files were displayed to make sure I didn't copy Thumbs & Desk files over but noticed the album art files (Folder.jpg etc.) that were created by Windows Media Player when I (and other people) ripped the discs. They are hidden files by default and are not readily changed (right-click, properties). After a quick search on the net I found out how to, then created, a batch file (attached) to do the job for me.
The system won't let me upload the file as-is because of the security risk but if you rename the file .bat instead of .txt it will work. If you still don't trust me you can do the work yourself; start wordpad or notepad, write "attrib -r -s -h *.* /S" (without the quotation marks) then saveas unhide (or similar).bat.
The method is fairly simple - put the batch file (or a copy) into the folder containing the files, double click to run it, wait a few seconds and hey presto; usable files.

The warning in the Honda manual holds true - don't put sticky labels on discs - they peel off, particularly in a hot car CD player! But if you want to print a cover to put into the case you'll need the artwork.

[Kremmen]

I rip all my stuff to MP3 using either WMP or CDeX. Then I use Nero to burn the stuff to printable CDR.

Before I do the burn I just delete the album art, etc from the burn list. I have on occasion forgotten to remove them but it makes no difference to the Civic audio as it just ignores them anyway.

I usually find the album art on WMP when it goes to get the details at rip stage but failing that I just scan the cover.

Then by use of CD Labeller Pro and my printers own CD label printer software I can do a reasonable job.

[IanG]

If you want to print anything on the disc why not just use discs with a printable surface?

Quite a lot of the newer printers use these and they come out pretty good and you can get the blanks for about £12.00 for 100 this will dow away with the need for nasty sticky labels.

I do mine on an Epson RX560 and it makes a very good job of them

[Kremmen]

Then I use Nero to burn the stuff to printable CDR.

I said that

I would recommend the latest Canon IP series though.

[Robbieee]

Have you felt how warm the cd player gets? When i ejected a CD yesterday, i could barely hold it, it was so hot!!!!

[Kremmen]

Mine gets warm but not 'too hot to handle'. It's probably due to the enclosed space.

As long as it doesn't affect the playing then it's OK with me. Plus I only ever use CDR's so I can always burn another.

It does reiterate the 'don't use sticky labels advice though.

[Maldax]

or use Lightscribe disks

[iamholam]

Man, I thought this was a post about getting album art on the screen in the EX

[Dave 8o]]

Originally Posted by iamholam

Man, I thought this was a post about getting album art on the screen in the EX

Me Too!

[thomasz]

Nice piece of info