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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: softshellcrab on December 19, 2007, 06:03:32 pm

Title: Feature Request: Make Cover Art Default Thumbs for Stacks with Mixed Media
Post by: softshellcrab on December 19, 2007, 06:03:32 pm
Hello,

I would really like it if there were a way to affix the album cover art as the default thumbnail for stacks that have mixed types of files in it. I currently use an All Media view scheme which I was able to create thanks to Alex' help. The top pane shows the stacks. On the bottom are album details.

Currently about half the time I open the program, the album cover is on the top of the stack, and the rest of the time it's something like a word doc thumbnail. This behavior is inconsistent. In addition, some of the stacks will show the album cover art, and some the doc or txt icon like this:

(http://i4.tinypic.com/72aeibd.jpg)

I really dislike the word doc and txt thumbs!  Perhaps in a right context menu or in the main options window, this feature can be implemented? It seems like it would be easy to do. Adobe Bridge has a feature like this were you can group photos in stacks and right-click on one of them to make it always the one on top.

BTW, I keep the cover art in each album's respective folder and name it folder.jpg.

Any chance this can be implemented?  ;D

In a totally unrelated matter, I have a question which I was hoping someone could help me with. On the bottom pane with the album details in the All Media node of the tree, I have the items grouped by albums. Below is the type of  header that appears for each album when I do this. What the heck does .8 avg mean next to the Year? On another album it may say .4 avg or another number will be in there. What does it mean? I looked in the help file but couldn't find a clue. When in the Audio node of the tree, the weird number does not appear next to the year in the header. Just in the All Media view.

(http://i4.tinypic.com/82xxf9e.jpg)

Also, is there any way I can customize this header to get different information in it? Or is it set?

Thanks in advance,
Pat