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[olarte]

Is there a way that you could add an option to resize the art cover image to a particular dimension?

I embed all cover art into mp3 tracks, and the folder.jpg file in the corresponding directory. I manually size all cover art to 300x300, It would be nice if this could be added as an option when pasting coverart, from file, or clipboard.

Thanks in advance.

Ivan

[benn600]

You are asking for a feature similar to the one that I and another select group of fine individuals have been asking for for a short while--and I've been asking myself for months.

If I understand correctly, you want to just select songs and have Media Center resize the cover art and save it out.

I know people who have re-encoded their entire MP3 library just so it would be all the same.  Most people know that adds a generation and, I think, even when going from greater to lower bitrates introduce horrible artifacts that decrease the audio quality overall.  I'm sorry to say I did that myself years back when I thought 64 Kb was enough.  Then I got good speakers--lol.  Woops.

I'm not sure why you would want to resize your cover art to all be the same?  If you have a specific reason, it may be a good one.  I personally DO have all my cover art (except one, lol) saved at exactly 1200x1200 pixels.  But, the only reason I do is because I scanned everything in by hand.  I decided that the extra requirements of having FLAC warranted a little extra work on my part to get gorgeous cover art.  If you're downloading 500x500 pixel cover art from Amazon, I see no reason to resize to 300x300.

The request many of us are making is for an on-the-fly resizer for handheld devices.  That has a valid purpose for saving space--sometimes not much but in my case: 1200 -> 320 pixels can save a ton of space.

I'm thinking that our handheld version of this feature request may potentially be able to handle both options...I'm very hopeful that my request will be added!

[MrHaugen]

I do not understand why you bring low audio quality into this.....
I can see why some people want to resize their cover art to a smaller size. At least for hand helds. But my request have a slight different twist.

I wish that every cover art in MC was stretched to fit. Today all cover art ar shrunk to fit, but the few cover art I have that are smaller in size will show as a smaller cover art. I think it looks just bad. Would be far better to show all pictures in same size, even though the smaller ones look a bit bad.

[benn600]

Yea, that's one reason why I don't downsize my cover art.  One the screen, they are displayed at 100% or downsized to fit.  I agree that they should be stretched out to fill the screen.

Low quality audio fits just about anywhere, sorry.