COVER ART IMAGES

Prerequisites

If you want to take advantage of the automatic extraction of a covr art image from your audio files and its subsequent association with the audio file it was extractd from, there are two pre-requisites that your configuration must meet.

imagick PHP extension

Your PHP configuration should include the imagick extension. This extension is generally already pre-installed by most of web hosting providers. In some cases, the extension might not be active by default and you need to activate it.

First of all, you want to determine whether imagick is active on your server or not. You can do that by creating a new .php file in the root of your website and including the following function:

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

If imagick is not active, you can activate it by creating a php.ini in the root of your website. The php.ini is going to be added to the default one used by your server. For that reason, it can simply contain the directives that you want to add to your default PHP configuration.

If activating the imagick extension is the only change you want to add to your default PHP configuration, the php.ini file in the root of your website can simply contain the following line:

extension=imagick.so