On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Hanno Zulla <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > with respect to this bug report: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677855 > > ...allow me to ask: Why does Rhythmbox do this? > > What is the advantage of caching the embedded album art image from a > local MP3/Flac/whatever music file? Isn't this just a waste of harddisk > space?
It does waste a little space, but the caching is done at the album level so not so much. The main advantage is for rapid cover display there is just one place to look - and loading an image file is simpler than loading an image from a music file (which may be on a different file system). > Also, it doesn't seem to work right all the time. I didn't debug this, > so the following observation could be mistaken, but it seems to me that > when I play a new album for the first time, the cover art will only > appear _after_ playing the first track. Why is this so? That could be a bug - you'd need to explore where the image came from (online search, embedded in the music files, local hard drive next to the music file, etc). Peter _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
