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Request: Option to make or find all artist pictures the same size!

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Buldarged:
I wouldn't say that this is necessarily a problem with the data source that delivers pictures in different aspect ratios. I think it is more a problem that is the consequence from the fixed grid layout MC provides. This layout requires all elements to have cover art of the same aspect ratio to really look good. It is often difficult to find covers of the same aspect ratios. I recently wanted to add books to MC. As you can imagine, book covers do not have the same aspect ratio.

However, there is a solution that requires JRiver to add more layout options. The screenshot you provided shows the default grid layout. However, there is a lot of software out there that does things differently, especially on the web.

Row layout with fixed size rows.

Column layout with fixed size columns.

Tetris layout with even more freedom.

Of course the drawbacks are that those solutions require more or less (non-uniform) scaling, cropping and reordering. But I could live with that, since those layouts look so much better. And grouping and sorting groups would still work.

I've looked at a implementations and it is actually much simpler than expected. The algorithm for the first two aforementioned layouts is linear and can be implemented in roughly 350 lines of Javascript. Not sure about the tetris layout. I also found a nice blog that has a lot of interesting entries on this topic including a talk.

Darkness:

--- Quote from: Buldarged on June 07, 2023, 05:27:57 pm ---I wouldn't say that this is necessarily a problem with the data source that delivers pictures in different aspect ratios. I think it is more a problem that is the consequence from the fixed grid layout MC provides. This layout requires all elements to have cover art of the same aspect ratio to really look good. It is often difficult to find covers of the same aspect ratios. I recently wanted to add books to MC. As you can imagine, book covers do not have the same aspect ratio.

However, there is a solution that requires JRiver to add more layout options. The screenshot you provided shows the default grid layout. However, there is a lot of software out there that does things differently, especially on the web.

Row layout with fixed size rows.

Column layout with fixed size columns.

Tetris layout with even more freedom.

Of course the drawbacks are that those solutions require more or less (non-uniform) scaling, cropping and reordering. But I could live with that, since those layouts look so much better. And grouping and sorting groups would still work.

I've looked at a implementations and it is actually much simpler than expected. The algorithm for the first two aforementioned layouts is linear and can be implemented in roughly 350 lines of Javascript. Not sure about the tetris layout. I also found a nice blog that has a lot of interesting entries on this topic including a talk.

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wow I'm layoutlove!!!!!

jctcom:
Hi All.

Just started playing around with getting Album Artist Art work.

I have my folders and other stuff set up and working.  I noticed though that if I Right Click and go to "Get Artist Images from Last.fm" that it won't do artists with "&" or other characters separating two or more artists.

For example "Anderson & Stolt".  When I had it search automatically it did not download the photo.  I went to Last.fm myself, Found and downloaded the photo and named it "Anderson & Stolt.jpg" and it now shows up.

Is there a way to get it to download via right click like a normal single artist does?

Thanks.

Carl.

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