by arachnophilia » Tue Nov 10, 2015 8:59 pm
due to the current problem with USB syncing to external SD cards, i tried WIFI syncing again as a troubleshooting step, and ran into the reason i didn't use WIFI syncing in the first place. WIFI sync pulls over low res album art.
i'm on a samsung galaxy s5, which as a 1080p screen, and low res album art looks like complete garbage when the central portion of it is cropped out for the lock screen. so as part of my tagging adventure, i've been pretty meticulous about finding the highest resolution album art i can, and i'm aiming at 1000px square, or bigger. this is no problem for USB sync, and everything looks great. WIFI sync though, and everything turns blurry and pixelated.
and i mean everything, not just the stuff i sync. initiating a WIFI sync degrades all of my album art in my entire library.
the weird part is that i have "copy album art to tags if possible" checked, and the high res file is still in the tags. i've checked with other programs, both on my PC and on my phone. the OEM galaxy player shows the high res art, and winamp in windows (yeah, i still have that installed somewhere) shows it as well.
i checked the "copy to folder" box, too, and told it name the files "<Album>.jpg". it shows a low resolution file in the folder named "albumart.jpg" so, yeah, WTF.
due to the current problem with USB syncing to external SD cards, i tried WIFI syncing again as a troubleshooting step, and ran into the reason i didn't use WIFI syncing in the first place. WIFI sync pulls over low res album art.
i'm on a samsung galaxy s5, which as a 1080p screen, and low res album art looks like complete garbage when the central portion of it is cropped out for the lock screen. so as part of my tagging adventure, i've been pretty meticulous about finding the highest resolution album art i can, and i'm aiming at 1000px square, or bigger. this is no problem for USB sync, and everything looks great. WIFI sync though, and everything turns blurry and pixelated.
and i mean [i]everything[/i], not just the stuff i sync. initiating a WIFI sync degrades all of my album art in my entire library.
the weird part is that i have "copy album art to tags if possible" checked, [i]and the high res file is still in the tags[/i]. i've checked with other programs, both on my PC and on my phone. the OEM galaxy player shows the high res art, and winamp in windows (yeah, i still have that installed somewhere) shows it as well.
i checked the "copy to folder" box, too, and told it name the files "<Album>.jpg". it shows a low resolution file in the folder named "albumart.jpg" so, yeah, WTF.