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

["Christophe Dehais" <christophe dehais gmail com>]

On 2/12/07, chombee <chombee nerdshack com> wrote:
> * Album images are really useful for browsing and finding albums. You
> can recognise the image more quickly than the text, or at least it helps
> to have both. And showing many album images looks pretty. Both Quod
> Libet [3] and Muine [2] above do this. In Muine I find myself looking
> for the image rather than the album name. It is very nice. It'd be good
> to have little album covers in the browser pane. Banshee had some
> mockups for doing just this I think.

agreed. It would be great to have a more graphical mode for the
browser, like iTunes has:

http://images.apple.com/itunes/jukebox/images/index_hero_mac20060912.jpg


I don't know how the cover art plugin is done but I'm wondering if the
'provider' aspect (retrieving covers from amazon, getting it from
disk, handling a data base of covers) is well split from the 'display'
aspect. Doing so, and providing a good interface for any other plugin
to access cover images could leverage any use of it, such as an
album-oriented browser, a media-center-like fullscreen mode or a shiny
OpenGL based cover display, or anything else.


Christophe