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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000684 | MMW v4 | Properties/Auto-Tools | public | 2003-09-04 13:51 | 2010-10-25 15:57 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | immediate | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Fixed in Version | 2.3 | ||||
| Summary | 0000684: Support for Album Covers | ||||
| Description | As discussed: -Album Art should be viewable in its own Window (which can be configured to appear in the main panel, or in the future, with the mini-monkey) -Album Art should be viewable in the Properties dialog (just click the image to edit the associated file). -It should be possible to scan images via tag & buddy file (tag overrides buddy file) -It should be possible to save images via tag or buddy file (configurable via 'Tags and Playlists'?). It should be possible to specify a default size to which images should be scaled to. -It should be possible to edit images via a) Album Art Window b) Properties dialog -It should be possible to save multiple images Q) What happens when the user auto-organizes files | ||||
| Additional Information | http://www.songs-db.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=688 http://www.songs-db.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=902 http://www.songs-db.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1685 http://www.songs-db.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1006 More about buddy files: http://www.songs-db.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1342 | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | 797 | ||||
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Note: the album art should appear in: 1) the main properties panel. We can make it fit by moving 'genre' and 'rating' to the left hand side and reducing the height of the comments field. Then there'll be a square in the middle right with room for a button. |
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Storing of album art is quite a complicated issue, I definitely don't want to store it in tags (there is a number of reason, it increases the size of file severely, would need to be added to all tracks of the album, etc.). There could be an option for this, but I would prefer not to do so. I think that all covers should be either copied to a predefined folder (and linked from the DB) or remain in it's original location (usually the same folder as all other tracks). We could also create a new dockable window for covers (option to turn on/off in the 'View' menu). |
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Note: I think that one of the users mentioned that WMP simply checks the directory in which a track appears for albumx.jpg and it shows up if it exists in that location. We could do something similar for: 1) scanning files--also check for Albums with the name albumx.jpg/gif 2) getting album art from within mm--automatically save it to the same directory as the track re. 2) this probably means that the allmusic screenscraping functionality would need to be implemented--i.e. given the limited breadth of the Amazon db and the very basic state of the View Album details ui, it's probably a better idea to re-implement than base it on the existing 'View Album Details' dialog. |
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Is included in build 797. We can discuss further some improvements, but the core functionality should work fine. |
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Testing in progress. Issues thus far: i) users are forced to delete entire DB in order to use the feature (rescans don't detect newly added jpegs). One way around this is to make an option to rescan images e.g. in the Library panel, just below 'Ignore songs...': [ ] Scan Track directories for Album Art when re-adding files (or [ ] Update Album Art from Track directories when re-adding files--I prefer the above option) ii) clicking an Album doesn't show any of the associated album art iii) when no album art is present, it should just show a faded outline of a person (like in iTunes) edited on: 10-04-04 07:04 edited on: 10-04-04 07:04 edited on: 10-04-04 09:56 |
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i) Fixed. ii) Do you mean in Album properties? I didn't plan this yet. Also, covers are assigned to individual tracks and not albums. iii) We would need to define some graphics for this. Either a bitmap or probably better some vector graphics (in order to be scalable). However, I don't think it's too urgent. |
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re. ii) what I meant is that if the user clicks an Album in the tree, then the associated Album Art doesn't appear! I would expect that the Album Art from the 1st song in the Album should appear. re. iii) I'll create a graphic--I think it is important because the text message looks ugly. Is PNG format good? |
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ii) Fixed - the window is now updated upon change of tree node. iii) I don't have the latest iTunes version, but on my machine it shows text only. However, we can use some graphics, e.g. something like in WMP10, maybe somehow containing shaded Monkey. It can be in BMP with a color chosen to be a substitute for transparent, it should be rather small (60x60?) because I probably won't resize it according to the window in order to prevent image distortion. |
