Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Feedback on album cover support

[Matthew Nicholson <sjoeboo sjoeboo com>]

I really like that approach to the album art. 

Matt
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 16:48 +0100, Christophe Dehais wrote:
> Very nice. I assume that another great side effect is that album arts
> are now also visible in 'mini-player' mode.
> 
> Christophe.
> 
> 
> On 2/14/07, William Jon McCann <mccann jhu edu> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > On 2/12/07, chombee <chombee nerdshack com> wrote:
> > > Any planned developments for rhythmbox's album cover support?
> > >
> > > I know from the archive that local image file support was recently added
> > > and drag-and-drop is planned. This would be very good. I think there's
> > > more to be done though...
> > >
> > > * Having the album cover in the bottom-left corner doesn't seem right.
> > > The image is not very obviously associated with the album. People might
> > > not know what it is. I like the way Banshee puts a small album image
> > > right next to the text giving the album/artist/song name [1]. This
> > > associates it well wit the album, and if you mouse-over the tiny image
> > > you see a full size preview. Ignore the second album cover image they
> > > have in the bottom left, that works just like rhythmbox and is pointless
> > > when they're already displaying it at the top.
> > >
> > > [1]: http://banshee-project.org/Image:0_11_0_cd-rip.png
> > >
> > > Muine does something similar, placing the album image near the album
> > > name on the interface [2].
> > >
> > > [2]: http://muine-player.org/wiki/Image:CMMainPageScreenshot.png
> > >
> > > As does Quod Libet [3]
> > >
> > > [3]:
> > > http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7519/capturequodlibetdescendxc8.png
> > >
> > > I think Rhythmbox has enough empty space along the top to do something
> > > like this.
> > >
> > > Also having the image in the bottom left is not very good use of space.
> > > The side-pane is already crowded with the source list and play queue and
> > > the users playlists. The user may want to add many playlists, and the
> > > album art gets in the way of this. On my machine, at 1024*768, there is
> > > no space for source list, queued songs and album art, and I don't even
> > > have any playlists. And the source list can't be hidden, so something
> > > else has to go.
> > >
> >
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407866
> >
> > Jon
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