[ID3 Dev] ID3V2 Icon

Jud White jwhite at cdtag.com
Tue Jan 23 21:20:43 PST 2007


I used Firefox to get the icon, as suggested. http://cdtag.com/id3v2icon.zip

Jim wrote:
> Well, I could email you the icon file. But this would be the same file 
> that is downloaded from the link that Dan O'Neill originally posted. 
> (http://id3.org/Developer_Information?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=id3v2.ico 
> <http://id3.org/Developer_Information?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=id3v2.ico>)
> When I save the file from that link, I get an icon file that has 4 
> different icons (32x32 16 color, 32x32 256 color, 48x48 16 color, 
> 48x48 256 color). From what you wrote it seems like you already tried 
> downloading this file and that isn't what you want so I'm guessing 
> that emailing it to you would be a waste of time?
> --Jim
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Dale Preston <mailto:dalepres at msn.com>
>     *To:* id3v2 at id3.org <mailto:id3v2 at id3.org>
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:28 PM
>     *Subject:* RE: [ID3 Dev] ID3V2 Icon
>
>     Thank you. I still don’t have the icon. One response suggests that
>     there’s no time to develop one. I guess that person didn’t know
>     that the icon already exists. Others suggest that IE should just
>     download the icon but it doesn’t. The HTML in the page is not a
>     link to the file nor does it offer the address of the file. The
>     HTML calls a script that retrieves and renders the file. I have
>     viewed the source of the page and there is no way to get the icon
>     URL from that code.
>
>     Whoever created the new site just made a mistake. If you render a
>     Win32 icon as an image, you get an image, not an icon. A Win32
>     icon is not a bitmap but rather a collection of bitmaps. While I
>     am sure the code for rendering the images, rather than simply
>     letting the web server and HTML render the images, is real nifty
>     but it is a mistake to use it for rendering icons.
>
>     It is getting really frustrating. I guess it was too much to ask
>     for one of those who have the full icon to just email it to me.
>     One was able to email a reply to my request stating how to get the
>     icon with wget – apparently a program but I am not familiar with
>     its use – and stated that he had the icon. It seems it would have
>     been just as easy, perhaps easier, to simply email the icon as I
>     had pleaded.
>
>     Thanks for trying, Manuel.
>
>     Dale
>
>     *From:* Manuel Teuber [mailto:teuber01_zigr at yahoo.de]
>     *Sent:* Monday, January 22, 2007 1:54 AM
>     *To:* id3v2 at id3.org
>     *Subject:* Re: [ID3 Dev] ID3V2 Icon
>
>     I know it's a bit late for this answer but unfortunately i'm not
>     able to check my emails regularly.
>     If you want to get the icon file just copy the adress of this file
>     and insert it into the adress field of your browser. Then you
>     might be able to download it. At least Firefox offers me to
>     download it then.
>
>     -Manuel
>
>     Dale Preston schrieb:
>
>     Maybe it's an IE 7 issue.  I still don't get the image in the developer info
>
>     page but the link you included here shows a picture - just not the whole
>
>     icon file.
>
>      
>
>     If you're able to get the ico file, would you mind emailing it to me?  It
>
>     would surely be appreciated.
>
>      
>
>     Thanks,
>
>      
>
>     Dale Preston
>
>      
>
>      
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>
>     From: Dan O'Neill [mailto:id3v2 at northpb.com] 
>
>     Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:49 PM
>
>     To: id3v2 at id3.org <mailto:id3v2 at id3.org>
>
>     Subject: Re: [ID3 Dev] ID3V2 Icon
>
>      
>
>     Dale Preston wrote:
>
>       
>
>         On the ID3.org Developer Information page, there's a place that is 
>
>         supposed to show an icon for ID3V2 but it isn't displaying correctly and 
>
>         even if it were it would not provide access to all of the embedded 
>
>         versions of the icon.  Is there a way to download the full ICO file?
>
>             
>
>      
>
>     All the graphics seem to be displaying properly.  Here is a link to the 
>
>       .ico image, or you can right click on the image and save it.
>
>      
>
>     http://www.id3.org/Developer_Information?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=id3 <http://www.id3.org/Developer_Information?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=id3>
>
>     v2.ico
>
>      
>
>     dan
>
>      
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