Hey, On 2/12/07, chombee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any planned developments for rhythmbox's album cover support? > > I know from the archive that local image file support was recently added > and drag-and-drop is planned. This would be very good. I think there's > more to be done though... > > * Having the album cover in the bottom-left corner doesn't seem right. > The image is not very obviously associated with the album. People might > not know what it is. I like the way Banshee puts a small album image > right next to the text giving the album/artist/song name [1]. This > associates it well wit the album, and if you mouse-over the tiny image > you see a full size preview. Ignore the second album cover image they > have in the bottom left, that works just like rhythmbox and is pointless > when they're already displaying it at the top. > > [1]: http://banshee-project.org/Image:0_11_0_cd-rip.png > > Muine does something similar, placing the album image near the album > name on the interface [2]. > > [2]: http://muine-player.org/wiki/Image:CMMainPageScreenshot.png > > As does Quod Libet [3] > > [3]: > http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7519/capturequodlibetdescendxc8.png > > I think Rhythmbox has enough empty space along the top to do something > like this. > > Also having the image in the bottom left is not very good use of space. > The side-pane is already crowded with the source list and play queue and > the users playlists. The user may want to add many playlists, and the > album art gets in the way of this. On my machine, at 1024*768, there is > no space for source list, queued songs and album art, and I don't even > have any playlists. And the source list can't be hidden, so something > else has to go. >
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