Index Artwork

[simoncn]

(31-10-2020 22:15)DavidHB Wrote:  A question. Can artwork be specified for all index entries? On auto, I note that the nnn Albums and nnn Items lines are populated with artwork, but not the remainder of the entries in the top level index. Can the remainder of this menu, and also the 'letter' menus generated by alphaGroup, be populated in some way? If not, could these ideas be added to the list of possible enhancements?

Doing this for the "letter" menus makes sense and I will look into adding this. For top-level etries such as Artist and Composer, the auto option doesn't really make sense. Each of these top-level entries contains a complete list of files, so an "auto" image for these could be any image in the library. I suppose it might look pretty but it provides no useful information. Also, because of how the image is selected, it would be the same image for Artist, Date, Genre, etc.

An alternative would be to extend the "folder" setting so that the user could provide different generic images such as Artist.jpg, Composer.png, Date.jpg, etc. to be used for these index entries. I would be interested to hear comments on this.

Quote:Another idea would be, when IndexArtwork is set to "folder", to allow the user to specify a default.jpg or default.png image to populate entries that have no image specified? Control points usually provide some sort of default image, but they are typically pretty boring.

This would be possible. Perhaps instead of a single default, there should be defaults for album, track, group, playlist, etc.

Quote:You will gather that I am quite enthusiastic about this new feature, because I think that it can greatly improve the look and feel of a compatible control point working with MinimServer. If this is an example of the enhancements we can expect in future, I'm very glad I bought my MinimServer 2 licence!

David

I hope there will be many more reasons to make you and other users glad in the future!