from http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/5798

Hi,

I noticed that Picard sets the following attributes to value 0 when saving a picture to a FLAC file:

• width
• height
• depth

<extract from metaflac --list output>
METADATA block #3
type: 6 (PICTURE)
is last: false
length: 41103
type: 3 (Cover (front))
MIME type: image/jpeg
description:
width: 0
height: 0
depth: 0
colors: 0 (unindexed)
data length: 41061
data:
00000000: FF D8 FF E0 00 10 4A 46 49 46 00 01 01 00 00 01 ......JFIF......
00000010: 00 01 00 00 FF DB 00 43 00 05 03 04 04 04 03 05 .......C........
...

This is an issue as libFLAC (more specifically FLAC__metadata_get_picture()
) ignores the picture inserted into the FLAC file because of this.
I am using libFLAC to (try to) extract the picture from the FLAC file. The
workaround I'm now using is saving the cover art as a seperate .jpg and then
using metaflac to import the picture. This yields the following metaflac
--list output:

METADATA block #3
type: 6 (PICTURE)
is last: false
length: 41103
type: 3 (Cover (front))
MIME type: image/jpeg
description:
width: 301
height: 300
depth: 24
colors: 0 (unindexed)
data length: 41061
data:
00000000: FF D8 FF E0 00 10 4A 46 49 46 00 01 01 00 00 01 ......JFIF......
00000010: 00 01 00 00 FF DB 00 43 00 05 03 04 04 04 03 05 .......C........

With width, height and depth set correctly, libFLAC also extracts the picture correctly.

Would it be possible to set these attributes correctly?

Best regards,
Kurt