Comments on: How to: Getting Album Art to show on your Nokia S60 devices

By: gunn

gunn — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:33:50 +0000

I just bumped in this discussion and after a real ordeal, album arts are successfully shown on my E5-00 library.

Basically there are 2 ways to store album covers for music files:
1) add into tag (no separate JPG file)
2) add into folder or link art to songs (as a separate JPG file)

Nokia phones DO NOT support the second type!

Tag editing tools don’t really matter in this case. I used Media Monkey. What really matters is:
1) make sure you are pasting JPG files to tag.
2) DO NOT put cover pictures in your music folders before editing!!!

Again, DO NOT put cover pictures in your music folders before editing!!! Because otherwise most tools would just ‘link’ the art file to the songs, which in all cases, would never work out for NOKIA.

By: JJ

JJ — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:14:48 +0000

You can just use any mp3 tag editor out there really I use mp3 tag editor… Just make sure when the mp3 file you’re attatching the album art to has a large bitrate such as 320kbps, set the image to a lower resolution; such as from 500×500 to 300×300

By: Jaja

Jaja — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:53:45 +0000

This absolutely makes no sense. I have ~5000 music files and i’m expected to manually edit each individual file. Nokia and Symbian need to get their act together.

By: JayJay

JayJay — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:15:51 +0000

I am a satisfied user of the Nokia N86. I found out that the solution suggested by Devin, only works in WMP on a XP system; not in WMP on a Vista system (which I’m working with); The solution suggested by daniel.t is the one I’m gonna use; that means goodbye to WMP en reload all my albums in iTunes; The music I bought in iTunes, as well as in the Nokia Music Store is well tagged; only not the music ripped in WMP, so that’s why I choose for iTunes,

By: Wu_

Wu_ — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:24:42 +0000

Picture type should be Cover (front) or Front cover (as mp3tag displays it) This works for me. iTunes sets the cover type as “other” I gues Nokia should update their S60 players so the can siplay cover set to other types, this is just dumb.

By: Fotis

Fotis — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:48:05 +0000

I have tried everything but I can’t make the album art to show in the built in music player on my E55. I tried the mp3tag program mentioned above, tried putting the album art as a jpeg file in the same directory as the mp3, tried editing the album art with windows media player and the new nokia player that supposedly optimises album art so that it can play on symbian phones, but nothing… Any new suggestions? thank you

By: pabrou

pabrou — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:12:29 +0000

Covers Everywhere is an open source program for Mac that converts the covers from you mp3s so they show up in Nokia devices, as well as itunes, wmp, etc. The program doesn’t download all the covers again, it simply change them so they can appear in a nokia phone by changing the “Picture Type”, so its really fast. I updated my 150 Gb collection (20000 songs) in about 15 minutes.
I code the application for exactly the reasons you mention in the post. I hope others can find it useful.
The app is in http://code.google.com/p/coverseverywhere/

By: Giulio

Giulio — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:30:52 +0000

Hi guys, I’ve got a strange problems, all my mp3 have the cover inside the id tag, and i clearly see it in windows and in nokia music, but when I transfer the mp3 to my n97 they don’t show, got any clues why? Thanks a lot for any help.

By: Bycek

Bycek — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:15:37 +0000

I’ve noticed that on my N95 8GB, album art embeded in mp3 file don’t show up when the cover is larger than about 100 kB.
Anybody have same thing ?

By: David

David — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:22:09 +0000

@ Devin:
Yes, the album art shows. In fact, you can sync your playlists and what not directly to the phone.