I would like to officially request on-the-fly cover art resizing for cover art. I have been casually requesting it earlier but now I would like to put it in as an official request. I just spent the last hour rating songs and, somewhat unfortunately, came up with another 150 songs that will be synced. It's amazing how I buy CDs, rip them, and forget to rate the songs I bought them for. Anyway, I'm down to 300 MB free now and the songs average over 6 MB with the huge cover art embeded. If the cover art could be resized before copied, then I would have plenty of space.
The good news is that I was essentially scrolling through looking for a lot of songs I knew I already liked...so this 70% good rate session (70% are 3 or more stars...from what I rated in the past hour) is uncommon. My next rate sessions will most likely consist of much lower percentages and thus, I will have fewer songs to add in the future since I got a lot of good ones in this session.
I have around 1,200 songs on my iPod now and at around 1-2 MB each for cover art, I will save AT LEAST 1 GB but probably more like 2 GB. That's enough for everything I rated plus another 2-4 hundred or so. I'm using a reasonably low VBR quality. Lowering the quality would hardly allow me to fit many more songs on at this point...it's the cover art that eats up the space.
Perhaps I could get a response on perhaps at least considering it, looking into it, or best yet would be putting it on the todo list. I appreciate it!