I solved a Problem. Rekordbox Cover Art
My DJ set up, and therefore music library, is primarily housed in Traktor Pro. I've chosen to use uncompressed digital audio files, specifically, FLAC, it's a format I've grown to love — despite the lack of cover art within MacOS, but this post doesn't solve that technological let down — my problem lies with rekordbox.
Although newer Pioneer digital DJ players support FLAC, older players, including the popular CDJ-2000 Nexus, does not support it and so when I wanted to start playing on Pioneers again, I had to find either a new format, or an additional one.
I opted for MP3, obvious maybe, but it's one that would work, and be ultra portable when considering USB drives.
I converted my FLAC library to MP3 using the free converter app, fre:ac, however, cover art previously embedded within the FLAC files were nowhere to be seen in rekordbox.
After a lot of head scratching, it turns out the rekordbox needs a specific cover art setup.
- Size: 600 x 600px
- Type: Front Cover
- Format: Jpeg
My solution was to use Mp3tag, brilliant app that I use for the majority of my music library house-keeping. Here's the workflow;
- Open the folder containing your music library
- Select all
- Within the left-hand Tag Panel, right-click (or control+click) on the cover art and click adjust... from the contextual menu
- Apply the above settings
- That's it
I had the chance to test the results today, and along with all available cover art showing in rekordbox, they also displayed as expected within the jog wheels of a CDJ-3000.