shake-the-disease;451529 Wrote: > There are some very nice, but very large, scans there. How does SC > handle this large artwork. Does it compress on the fly and so slow down > response. Is there an ideal size (pixels & file size) we should look > for? The wiki talks about 300x300 is the max, but that was for SC 6.5 so > maybe this is out of date now?I use 600x600 or 600x527(528) for everything. > If there's a larger image (e.g. 1200x1200) I resample it down.
SC is fine with images this size, and the caching routine generates the thumbnail versions the first time they are used, so I haven't seen any performance issues. The only time it uses the full image is when you hover over the now playing thumbnail and get the full image as a callout, or when you click onto a thumbnail to get it to open it. I embed all of mine in my FLAC files, which are transcoded into MP3 for my iPods, and they are also happy with the size of images in the file, presumably after iTunes has done its thing with the metadata. I'd far rather have a high quality version of the correct cover rather than some random download of an over-compressed, poorly framed and often wrong version of the actual cover that an auto-downloader has found. Just as an example, there are 7 different versions of the cover for AC/DC's Back in Black in common circulation, and that's about one of the simplest cover designs you'll find! -- paulster ------------------------------------------------------------------------ paulster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23073 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66533 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
