The Problem:

You’ve acquired a few thousand Mp3’s over the years and they’ve all been neatly tagged with the album art embedded in the ID3V2 tags, wow that took a lot of time.

Now you load them onto your cool new Sansa e200 player, yeah you’re ready to go show it off to all your iPod toting friends.

Hey what’s wrong I can’t see half my album covers? Oh crap! Now that’s NOT cool.

Why:

It’s seems the Sansa’s don’t like album art in the tags being over a certain size.

Just what size is that you ask? Well there’s not an easy answer it’s a combination of file size and the dimensions of the album art, I think maybe only Lil' Monsta knows for sure.

What To Do:

You can copy the album art into the folders that you’ve neatly but all your music in.

You did organize all your Mp3’s by album in their own folder right? (It’s the only way you can use this method.)  No you’re disorganized and just threw all the songs in one big folder called “Stuff I Listen To” or "My Music" (how unoriginal)

Great now what?

Ok it’s time to resize the album art in the tags. First you need a tagging tool that can extract the artwork from the tags and save it as a file then you’ll need to use your favorite photo resizing tool to change the dimensions of the picture (250 x 250 saved at 80% quality jpeg works well)

Hey go have a coffee break because there’s still more.

Oh your back? Good, now all you have to do is retag all of the Mp3’s with your resized album art and you’re Sansa’s good to go show off to the world.

Isn’t There An Easier Way?

Sanse Mp3 Art Sizer to the rescue.

With the Mp3 Art Sizer you can size the album art inside the Mp3 file (or a bunch of files) with just a few clicks, you just load up your files hit go and let the resizer do the work.

System Requirements:

  Windows XP or Vista

  800 x 600 Screen Resolution *1024 x 768 or higher recommended

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Last Modified  03/12/2008