Re: [mb-users] cover art source

tommycrock wrote
> On 29 September 2014 16:15, lixobix <

> arjtaplin@

> > wrote:
> 
>> tommycrock wrote
>> > Okay, you've prompted me lixobix
>> >
>> > I've been thinking it would be useful to have a flag or two to declare
>> > cover art as scanned or 'original digital' (or some better words than
>> > these/other choices). For physical releases scans are one of the best
>> ways
>> > of knowing you've got the exact same release in your hands. But scans
>> > often
>> > aren't the best cover art, due to the losses in printing and scanning
>> and
>> > resulting moire, poor colour reproduction, never mind dog-eared corners
>> > etc.
>> > It seems to me that when original digital artwork is available that
>> > closely
>> > matches the real item, but maybe a different shape (e.g. square instead
>> of
>> > rectangular) or lacks some release specific identifiers (it's a generic
>> > version ready to be filled with barcode/label/catno etc.) we should add
>> it
>> > for use as cover art but flag it as a digital version, or otherwise
>> have
>> a
>> > way people can see the type of artwork they want.
>> >
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>> Interesting idea. But might that not result in releases having two
>> complete
>> sets of cover art? Could be a bit confusing. Also, how would we ensure
>> that
>> only the desired cover art is downloaded by Picard?
>>
>> Could do, but I think it'd be rare, it's usually just front art in my
> experience. I don't think it'd be that confusing. And, I have no idea. I
> don't use Picard. Is there a choice of cover art when, say, there's a
> front
> with sticker and without?
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Picard downloads all the cover art for the release, although you can exclude
certain types. However, it doesn't differentiate secondary, tertiary etc
types. So if a release has both "front" and "front, sticker", it will
download them as "cover", and "cover(1)", i.e. as two of the same type
("front" is renamed "cover" by Picard). It is not currently possible to set
Picard to download only "front" or "front, sticker". If it could, your idea
might work better.

If we had "digital" and "scanned" as types, then all could be added to MB,
e.g. "front, digital" and "front, scanned". It Picard could then be patched
to allow download setting for each secondary, tertiary etc. type, then users
could set Picard to download only e.g. "front, digital". The problem with
that approach is there are a massive number of possible combinations, as
each image file could be a number of types, so there would be a massive list
of check boxes. Perhaps that could be avoided by having a scripting function
for cover art to set custom preferences, e.g. "exclude all types containing
'scanned'".



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