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I just went to edit some of my artwork that MC saves from the id3 tags and noticed I could not open any of them up in photoshop. Upon further investigation it appears that MC is saving all image files with the wrong extension. All my images are jpg files, but MC is saving them with a file name that is a number and the .gif extension. There should be some type of check first on what the file type is and then MC should save the file with the correct extension.
I was able to verify this by manually changing the .gif back to a .jpg. Once I did this, the file would open up correctly in any program.
I was able to verify this by manually changing the .gif back to a .jpg. Once I did this, the file would open up correctly in any program.
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0The name is not important. It is the extension that is incorrect.
For example i have images embedded in the mp3 tags as cover.jpg
MC saves a copy of the file as 1515.gif
The file has not changed and is still a jpg file, but MC named it wrong as a gif file. Looking at the image info in the browser, one will see this:
Location: .../images/albums/1515.gif
Type: JPEG Image
Any professional program that requires a correct file extension to match the type of file it is, will not open these files. So if I want to edit these images in my Photoshop CS 5.5 to update the dimensions so they are a square, I have to first change the file name extension back to whatever that image really is, so in this example, 1515.jpg then edit the file and save it. Then afterwards go back and change it to the incorrect file extension of 1515.gif so that MC can find the incorrect name that it uses. -
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0I've tried to reprduce this problem in my testing environment but I haven't been able to.
the extension type is determined by the encoding of the image in the ID3 tag, nothing more nothing less. if the image is a gif, then it will be stored as a gif. there is a ID3 tag actually that says what kind of image it is...!
can you send me a file that gives you this problem?
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