erland;697896 Wrote: > What kind of resolution is needed on the album art files for it to look > a lot better ? > I think most of mine are less than 500x500 pixels, will they still look > significantly better on the retina display ? Or do I need to start > getting album covers with higher resolution to get any real benefits ? > Yes and Yes :)
Yes, you'll profit from it. The thumbnails are 300x300 so they fit well into your range (by comparison: Logitech's are 64x64) and this means as long as you don't scale up the grid view from the default size all artwork thumbnails can use the full retina resolution. This includes the NowPlaying playlist screen saver. NowPlaying of course is a different story, here you'd need 1536x1536 in full scale, here you will probably see blocks. In iPeng you can scale the NowPlaying artwork as you probably know but right now the lowest scale size is 1.0 so you can't get small artwork in retina, yet, this will come with the next update, I've got a bit of a queue waiting here due to the almost three weeks of delays with this release. But my experience is that it matters less for the big images since you tend to look at them from a bit farther away. MOG has cover art in 768x768 and this looks quite good in full-screen, Spotify's 320x320, however, are a joke. so.. > > Does the retina display improve it also in the big album cover when > opening up the full screen Now Playing screen with 500x500 pixel album > artwork ? > No. > > Some kind of smart anti aliasing or similar ? No, actually, my experience with anti-aliasing when upscaling isn't really good, it tends to blur things a LOT. The iPad does this (it's the default behavior) so you will not get uneven Lego bricks but it will be blurry. Look at the SqueezePlay screen shot, I believe that's a 64x64 image scaled up to something else. Time to find good artwork somewhere.... -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
