(or, at the very least, hard to explain).

It's doable, there's just parts of it which hurt my head 🙂

Do you really want this done on a per file basis? I assume that you're going to load up a bunch of files. If two or more files in the same folder have the same image, do you really want the multiple Cover files produced?

Re-importing is easy but what is your logic in deleting the embedded image just to import it again? Even if the file is saved with the minimum amount of compression, there is still some quality lost. It may not be much but it is lost. Every time a jpg image is saved, something is lost. Even without the compression issue, the image is already in the file ... why delete it to re-import it. The only thing I can think of is that the image as embedded is not jpg or png and you want something more standard???? Your screenshot shows the image in a Finder Get Info. I'm assuming that the image shows up in Yate as well?

Those are really good questions. Now my head hurts.

In the past, I've had problems with embedded images, because Roon has overridden them for whatever reason.

I'm guessing that may be something they've fixed since I last thought about it, as my first "test" subject seems to have gone into Roon & Plex without issue.

If that's the case, we can probably mothball this one for the time being & I'll crack on, add more & keep an eye on it.

Thanks. Apologies for the sore head. 🙂

So I've been leaving the embedded sleeves & seeing how I get on. I've added dozens without a problem but today I got my first "problem child".

You'll see from the screenshots that:

1) Each folder contains a single MP3 with an embedded image.

2) That the embedded images show up perfectly well in Plex.

3) That Roon's decided to be a twat about it & not load one of the images.

🙄

I've jumped through all the hoops, reloaded it, restarted it, cleared the caches. All the hoops! But to no avail.

This is one of the reasons I'm hoping that, once I can get everything set up & can be secure in the knowledge that I can get good quality audio to my hi-fi from Plex, that I can finally dispense with Roon. (I currently only have Plex because Plexamp works really well in the car, but it does mean I have to curate two music libraries in parallel.)

Anyway, if it's just the occasional one, I can manually create the cover image but if it gets any worse, I may be asking you for an action that saves out the embedded images & renames them. 😆

Yes, it turns out the image was over 4000 pixels square, so I had to downsize it.

I've encountered images that exceeded the maximum size for FLACs before but, as I've always saved out the images for MP3s & never left them embedded, I'd not encountered this before.

It does throw some shade over the posibillity of an action, if I need to look at the MP3 cover images on a case by case basis. I guess the action being triggered by the size of the image could work, but unless it happens more frequently, it probably still isn't worth worrying about.

I guess this may be the reason I've had this problem in the past.