[Bug] cover/artwork

[simoncn]

As you say, compressing images is time-consuming. A single browse request from the control point can cause 50 or 100 images to be sent by the server. The time laken to downsize all these images would severely impact the responsiveness of MinimServer.

Another issue is the quality of the downsized image. The Java runtime has code to downsize images but the quality of the downsized image is poor. Various workarounds have been suggested for this but none of them matches the quality of the original.

An offiline image converter can produce high-quality downsized images. As this conversion is not done in real time, it doesn't impact the responsiveness of browsing using MinimServer.

For these reasons, it is unlikely that MinimServer will add support for on-the-fly image downsizing.