[Bug] cover/artwork

[simoncn]

Browsing through a list of albums causes MinimServer to send the cover picture for each album. A control point typically requests 50 or 100 albums at a time, then renders the pictures for all these albums. All this happens before the user selects an album for playing. So MinimServer could be compressing 50 or 100 images for a single browsing action (not just one image when playing a track).

When the user selects an album for playing, most control points show a large image on the Now Playing screen. Poor quality compression of this image would be unacceptable to the user.

When the user sends an image to the control point, it doesn't know whether it will only be used for a thumbnail while browsing or also used as a large mage while playing the album. A compression scheme suitable for the former would not be suitable for the latter.