[Gllug] How does RhythmBox do it?

[John Winters]

Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
> On Thu Jul  3 17:32 , John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk> sent:
> 
>> I just used mplayer to suck a program off the Radio7 web site that I
>> wanted to listen to (Tony Hancock's "Blood Donor" episode).  I then
>> processed it again with mplayer to turn it into a .wav file and
>> processed that with oggenc to create a .ogg file.
>>
>> Then I opened it with RhythmBox to play it.  It all worked fine, but the
>> bit I can't work out is how RhythmBox also managed to show me a picture
>> of Tony Hancock - it looks like an album cover matching the recording.
>>
>> Do all these different formats include space for an image?
> John,
>   The formats do not contain space for an image, but they do
>   contain space for Album Name, Artist Name, etc and Rythymbox will
>   use that info to lookup and download the album art.

Curiously, RhythmBox seems to have none of that information.  When it
opens the file it shows all of these as "Unknown", but it still has the
cover image.

I'm not sure you have the correct explanation.

Cheers,
John
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