Re: Album Art??? Any ideas

If this does get added, I'd like to see some options for the feature. Mainly 
because I've already been building my cover image database, and I'm sure 
others have too, and I KNOW we've been doing it differently.  I'm going to 
state how I've been doing it, and I suggest anyone else that has been 
collecting cover images for their mp3 cd sets to do the same, this should 
either allow for flexibility in the covers setup or it will aid in the 
development of a standard way for netjuke to support covers.

So, I do it as so-
I use Tag and Rename to save the images from Allmusic.com in the 
"cover-%1-%3.jpg" format, so it'll come out to cover-artist-album.jpg
I then save them into two directories... one for my personal cd's and another 
for cd's I've ripped or downloaded.

so, in theory, the way I'd like to see it done is that you can add 1 or more 
directories to the cover search path, then the cover art files get parsed 
according to the user definition(so I'd parse for, say cover-%1-%2 as 
described above).
I also think there should be a mode where it will look in the same folder as 
the mp3's for their cover art(for people that do it this way).

Now, this leads to something I've been advocating for a while, when searching, 
instead of displaying all tracks in an album, album after album(for searches 
other than track searches), display just the artist and the album title, then 
have check boxes next to each result. The user can then select just the 
album(which will go on to show the tracks in that album) or just the 
artist(which will go on to show all albums by that artist in the same 
format). The checkboxes could also be checked, and a button(show tracks or 
something like that) can be clicked and all tracks for those albums will be 
displayed(like it is now).
This, to me makes more sense than the current version. Maybe even a per-user 
preference to select this method or the original method.

Those are my ideas for now, I'm starting to come up with my concept for the 
netjuke-box application my friend will be writing with me, if anyone has any 
requests or ideas for this application, feel free to email me and or the 
list, eventually we'll setup a sourceforge page for the project.

-- 
Steven Adeff
AOLIM:"IndieRockSteve"

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"Bodies are for hookers and fat people" - Bender

You can teach the ignorant, with the stupid there is no hope.

"You see, eventually your music will help put an end to war 
and poverty, it will align the planets and bring them into 
universal harmony, allowing meaningful contact with all 
forms of life."
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On Saturday 26 April 2003 04:39 pm, Zack Bethem wrote:
> The location exists to store it..
> queries are formulated to get the locations...
>
> but I'm guessing that actual presentation requires php editing?  Anyone
> get anywhere on this....
>
> -- Z



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