michael.gr

2018-07-06

Researching mp3 cover art downloaders

So, I have this huge mp3 collection that is mostly missing cover art. I embarked on a quest to add cover art to each mp3 file, and before long I realized that I need some software to help me with it. Here I am documenting my findings.

Rooting my Android Phone

In this post I am documenting the process of rooting my Samsung Galaxy Note 4. It should work on the majority of Android phones out there.

Solved: Windows Explorer shows generic thumbnails instead of embedded album art for music (mp3) files

I have a large number of mp3 files, all of them with embedded album art, but when viewing them via Windows Explorer, I see generic music file icons instead of album art thumbnails.

Generic music icons. Ugh.

I spent a good couple of hours troubleshooting this problem, so I would like to document the solution for anyone who happens to go through the same pain.

Confucius on naming

There is a Chinese proverb which states:

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

This proverb is generally understood to be a summarization and paraphrase of an actual quote from the "Rectification of Names" section of the Analects of Confucius. (See Wikipedia - Rectification of names)