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Request: Option to make or find all artist pictures the same size!
Darkness:
May i ask for a feature request?
i believe will be more nice to the eye an option to make or all artist pictures the same size!
if this is easy and can be done will be so cool! thank you for you hard work on this awsome player!
some examples are with yellow circle.
HPBEME:
--- Quote from: Darkness on June 03, 2023, 08:24:45 am ---if this is easy and can be done will be so cool! thank you for you hard work on this awsome player!
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I don't know if it is easy, and it has been requested before. Unfortunately, you get what you get for the artist pix, which is a random mish-mash of aspect ratios. Hopefully a critical mass of interest can be achieved and get this moved up the priority list. :o
I personally used a different media player (MusicBee) to initially retrieve artist pix. With no other effort than installing the program, it automatically finds/applies (mostly) 1000x1000 square pix for the majority of artists (images for obscure artists typically ~300x300). It found artist pix for ~90% of my library, and well over half of those were 1000x1000. You will have to copy the folder where MusicBee stores them to where MC does, but as soon as you paste them, blammo, you have updated artist pix.
Even though most pix were large/hi-rez, I still ended up manually replacing 30%+ of those with images I liked better (I am picky). FYI... use duckduckgo for image searches. I won't try and explain how/why it blows away Google - just try it out and you will see for yourself.
And finally, do you like that fat white frame around the pix and large thumbnail spacing? Maybe that is the default - I don't recall. Either way, if you dislike that layout, both can be modified.
- MC has a handy search box at the bottom of the Options dialog - search for "frame" and select "all off".
- Thumbnail spacing is accessed via the tab's dropdown menu (see attached pic)
- In the attached pic, my thumbnail spacing is set to "none", but there is still a 2 pixel "pad" all around the image (Matt - any chance you can reduce that to 1 pixel?)
NOTE: you have to precisely tweak the thumbnail size via the slider (upper right just below the Player Bar) to make the gaps as tight as possible
Anyway, hope the all the above info is useful to you.
Darkness:
--- Quote from: HPBEME on June 04, 2023, 12:40:10 am ---I don't know if it is easy, and it has been requested before. Unfortunately, you get what you get for the artist pix, which is a random mish-mash of aspect ratios. Hopefully a critical mass of interest can be achieved and get this moved up the priority list. :o
I personally used a different media player (MusicBee) to initially retrieve artist pix. With no other effort than installing the program, it automatically finds/applies (mostly) 1000x1000 square pix for the majority of artists (images for obscure artists typically ~300x300). It found artist pix for ~90% of my library, and well over half of those were 1000x1000. You will have to copy the folder where MusicBee stores them to where MC does, but as soon as you paste them, blammo, you have updated artist pix.
Even though most pix were large/hi-rez, I still ended up manually replacing 30%+ of those with images I liked better (I am picky). FYI... use duckduckgo for image searches. I won't try and explain how/why it blows away Google - just try it out and you will see for yourself.
And finally, do you like that fat white frame around the pix and large thumbnail spacing? Maybe that is the default - I don't recall. Either way, if you dislike that layout, both can be modified.
- MC has a handy search box at the bottom of the Options dialog - search for "frame" and select "all off".
- Thumbnail spacing is accessed via the tab's dropdown menu (see attached pic)
- In the attached pic, my thumbnail spacing is set to "none", but there is still a 2 pixel "pad" all around the image (Matt - any chance you can reduce that to 1 pixel?)
NOTE: you have to precisely tweak the thumbnail size via the slider (upper right just below the Player Bar) to make the gaps as tight as possible
Anyway, hope the all the above info is useful to you.
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i see. well i hope someday it will be i use other methods too to make the cover the same size and when looks the same are awesome jriver is a very capable software! hope the devs gives it that litle boost!
marko:
--- Quote from: HPBEME on June 04, 2023, 12:40:10 am ---FYI... use duckduckgo for image searches. I won't try and explain how/why it blows away Google - just try it out and you will see for yourself.
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I have a link for that setup on the MC links bar. Works quite well...
--- Code: ---<Link version="1.2">
<Item Name="Name">Artist Art (D-D-Go)</Item>
<Item Name="Action">1</Item>
<Item Name="Base URL">https://duckduckgo.com</Item>
<Item Name="Search URL">https:////duckduckgo.com//?q=replace([Artist],/ ,+)&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images&iaf=size%3ALarge%2Clayout%3ASquare</Item>
<Item Name="Type">0</Item>
<Item Name="Program Path"/>
<Item Name="Program Parameters">"[Filename]"</Item>
<Item Name="Filter">[Media Type]=[Audio]</Item>
</Link>
--- End code ---
HPBEME:
Thank you so much for posting that Marko. Currently I just copy the artist name from the tag window and paste it directly into DuckDuckGo search.
That said, I've never quite gotten the hang of scripts for links. I copied your code and pasted it into the manage links dialog, but I get an error when I try and launch it. Suggestions?
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