Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Album Art

[Fredrik Noring <noring nocrew org>]

Hi Charles

> The first problem, imho, is that the images up there next to the
> prev/play/next and song title widgets 
> 
> 	a) look out of place
> 	b) clutter up the area
> 	c) are too small

The images were placed there "by association", because album name and
album images goes together, no? I agree that they are too small though.
But I didn't want to suggest too many changes at once, completely
reworking the interface. :) Clicking on the images could show them
bigger.

> Maybe we shouldn't bother with showing the playing song's album image?
> I really like this album browser, perhaps thats enough use of the image?

I've added a third image, showing the compact album browser only.

> Or if RB ever gets visualizations it could be used as a backing image to
> that.  

What's "visualizations"?

> Honestly, this compact mode idea has really got me going, I'd definitly
> hack it up if people were interested and/or offered to help.

I'm interested. :)

> It should/could also do it the muine way with a cover.[jpg/png/gif] in
> the same directory as the mp3 (perhaps this is a "standard" or
> something?)  It could also (stealing a page from muine's book) fetch the
> image from amazon or allmusic or something (and cache it for later use,
> of course).

I've made a patch to support ID3-tag pictures in EasyTAG GTK2.4-pre2. 
Perhaps you will find it useful:

http://noring.nocrew.org/easytag/easytag-0.31_gtk2.4_pre2-cover-art1.patch

A neat thing about ID3 pictures is that several types are supported. So
clicking on "Properties" on a song could bring up a window showing front
and back cover pictures, leaflet pictures, artist pictures, pictures
during recording/performance along with comments etc.

Fredrik