Icons when browsing

[magister]

I have some questions and a suggestion about icons when browsing.

Questions: when I browse my library, sometimes an album cover is shown and sometimes not. For instance, right now I'm browsing by Composer and most of the names have an album cover, but a few do not. Likewise with Genre and Conductor.

1) Is the display of an album cover controlled by MinimServer or by my control point? (I have customized indexTags to show composer, conductor and composition, among others, and my controller [PS Audio's eLyric] implements this correctly.)

2) If controlled by MinimServer, how is the choice of cover determined when one is not looking at specific album? The last one in a category that was played? Why are some blank?

Suggestion: I find it a little disconcerting sometimes to see covers and sometimes not, and to see one particular cover in a category. E.g., I have several albums by Beethoven; something in my brain doesn't like seeing a random album when I'm browsing by composer -- "Hold on! I didn't ask for that album . . . I know I have more Beethoven albums . . . ???"

Would it be possible to load at startup a list of tags and associated images; something like "conductor=cndctr.jpg" and the image cndctr.jpg would be displayed rather than an album cover when browsing by conductors?

Maybe some people like seeing a cover, even if it's not the one they're looking for. And I have no idea how hard this would be to implement. I would be willing to contribute some icons if Simon would implement this feature. (I'm no great artist, but at least it would be a starting point, and those with the skills could always improve them . )

David