Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] album covers

[Douglas McMorris <virage83 mail utexas edu>]

On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 14:09, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> tor 2003-05-15 klockan 09.21 skrev Luca Ferretti:
> > Il mer, 2003-05-14 alle 17:44, Jorn Baayen ha scritto:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I think it would be nice support album covers in one way or another,
> > > because it's fancy but above all it provides a very easy way (imho) to
> > > find the album you're looking for. At least from the CDs I have I know
> > > the covers pretty well, and I 'read' them much faster too than the album
> > > titles. 
> > > 
> > > I do not think we should include the album cover in the playing area or
> > > osmething, because it would not fit the theme often, be big, ugly, and
> > > also useless there. However, maybe thumbnails in the album view would be
> > > nice.. although they'd probably have to be fairly small.. and look
> > > inconsistent with the artist browser. Hm, so we need something else.
> > > 
> > 
> > mmhh something like View -> Cool view? Choose it and enable
> > visualization plugin, spectrum analyzer and the the album cover near
> > song's name....ok, it's totally mad....
> 
> Album cover near song name.. naaargh.. useless .. :)
> 
> imho having two browser modes is pretty borked actually, but I think
> there must be some way to put album covers to use in a sensible way.. 

There was some discussion long ago about having a small, skinnable
player mode... perhaps we could resurect this idea... this would be the
place for such eye-candy-esk features i think.

that said... that would probably be crack and not a good solution.  what
if we just put it beside the artist and title (to the left) and have a
pref for it... if it takes up too much space for people they could leave
it off (make it off by default of course)

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Douglas McMorris <virage83@mail.utexas.edu>