Album art is not encoded

Question

Trying to create mp3 attachments for personal use. Tried all the solutions here on StackO, but no one worked.

Here is what I have:

TagLib.File tagFile = TagLib.File.Create("C:\\Users\\Dom\\Desktop\\song.mp3");
TagLib.Id3v2.AttachedPictureFrame pic = new TagLib.Id3v2.AttachedPictureFrame();
pic.TextEncoding = TagLib.StringType.Latin1;
pic.MimeType = System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Image.Jpeg;
pic.Type = TagLib.PictureType.FrontCover;
pic.Data = TagLib.ByteVector.FromPath("C:\\Users\\Dom\\Pictures\\picture.png");
tagFile.Tag.Pictures = new TagLib.IPicture[1] { pic };
tagFile.Tag.Album = "Album 1";
tagFile.Tag.Year = 1990;
tagFile.Save();   

The album tag and the year tag are displayed in the default properties, and the program crashes or does not throw any errors. The image does not appear as a file icon or in the Windows media player. Image size is 300x300 pixels, if that matters.

Answer 1

The cause is probably a conflict with existing ID3v2 tags. Fix it like this:

    TagLib.File tagFile = TagLib.File.Create("C:\\Users\\Dom\\Desktop\\song.mp3"); Tag t = tagFile.GetTag(TagTypes.Id3v2);
    tagFile.RemoveTags(TagTypes.Id3v2); Tag tags = tagFile.GetTag(TagTypes.Id3v2);
    tagFile.GetTag(TagTypes.Id3v2, true); tagFile.Save();
    tagFile = TagLib.File.Create("C:\\Users\\Dom\\Desktop\\song.mp3"); tags = t;

    tagFile.GetTag(TagTypes.Id3v2).Pictures = new IPicture[] { new Picture("C:\\Users\\Dom\\Pictures\\picture.png") { MimeType = "image/png", Type = PictureType.FrontCover } };
    tagFile.Tag.Album = "Album 1";
    tagFile.GetTag(TagTypes.Id3v2).Track = 0;
    tagFile.Tag.Year = 1990;
    tagFile.Save();