On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 19:16 -0700, Old Guy wrote: > Most of my CDs are classical which are now hard to find even > on Amazon (very old, out of print, foreign origin, etc.)
I had the same type of problem, my collection is mostly jazz, old and out of print (with a smaller amount of classical) Amazon is a great resource for popular stuff. I often had to search many sites to find the cover art. I had better luck with allmusic.com than with amazon for much of my collection > So I decided to scan my CDs instead. The key is that you want all your artwork to be the same size. And there is no point in having a lot of resolution on the images, since most of the time, you won't be looking at it for detail. Thumbnails do a pretty good job for me. You probably want to get a graphic image editor that can resize/resample your images down to the same size for all your collection. There is a server setting for thumbnail size, but I have not noticed one for the main "now playing" section of the skins. (The display size were different for different skins, last time I looked in detail. > Am I asking too much? If all you are asking is "does it sound reasonable to add user image control for skin XYZ" it is of course reasonable. Add the request. Since most of the skins are actually pretty simple, and the source is included with all the distributions, you could even submit a patch (which are _always_ appreciated) I think the more general question about artwork sizing, resizing, etc. is more complicated and less reasonable. In HTML, the image size is a hint to the browser. And some browsers (and some versions) to a pretty lame job of resizing. Solving that and making it look professional is non-trivial, and maybe even really hard. Send me private email about which skin you are using and I can see if I can point you to the right place in the code. I've thought about a related improvement, which is to allow more explicit control of which image to be used for each sized hole in the HTML. The utility I wrote (see my .sig) can retrieve up to three different sized images, and the 5.* series server did not make analysis of which would be optimal to use. I tabled the idea until the 6.* series settled down a bit. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
