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

["William Jon McCann" <mccann jhu edu>]

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