Hi Scott, that would be great.  Do you have info for your device and/or any others?

well recently I just been adding cover art to the MP3 tag  less than 20KB 200x200. Though as a seprate file there isn't to many restrictions. I was  thinking that it could be just an option if you can use it somthing like

  [X]Copy Cover art to Audio Player
      Name cover art as___________ .jpg

Most mass storage devices work with a folder.jpg or ablum art.jpg or somthing simmilar for the Sansa e260 the ablum art.jpg in the ablum folder is fine. for the napster 1GB player it's folder.jpg i think but it has to be a certant size

While that approach would work, it would be much better to have information about each individual player and how it handles cover art in HAL so it would Just Work for everybody.  To do that, we need to figure out what information we need and how to describe it in a fairly general way in HAL.

OK so in .is_audio_device have: ALBUMART=MUSIC/$ARTIST/$ALBUM/album art.jpg
and as far as i know album art is handled similarly in on most MSD DAP's. there is and the sansa e200 series is just like the one above I don't own any others at the moment. So the info we need is pretty much is: 

needs to be .jpg
the .jpg be in the album dir
and the .jpg being 'album art,folder,cover.jpg' 

though most use windows album art and from that it's album art.jpg and folder.jpg

Please specify the latest version of banshee you have been able to test this against or let us know that this is no longer a problem. Thank you for helping us keep track of your bug.

this applied to 12.1+

Closing as a duplicate of this much more recent bug since it had patches attached and is now fixed.  Thanks!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 549166 ***