Quote Originally Posted by ninjaw View Post
.... and I just realized it : Yes in the 16MB oriiginal track 1 mp3 there is .... 12MB just for the cover, remove tag and your mp3 turns to 4MB
.... The zip file ? it changed from 110MB to 58MB
That's one reason I always retag any mp3s I otherwise retain; embedded cover art in tags is pretty silly, IMO, unless you've genuinely got custom art for each track. (And even then, I'd prefer external images for those.) Though usually at least the image put into the tags is a much lower-res version - rather amusing that they're using the full quality one in there.