Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
danull;555470 Wrote: Not super big deal...of course I got the portable USB drive expressly so I wouldn't need a computer. Also those of us without thousands of posts are a little more afraid of beta code, I suspect :-D - especially when there is no guarantee this will fix it. I got the nightly build of 7.6 on and it is scanning...wish me luck ;-) There is another way to do it. You can download the firmware you wish and put it on a USB stick or SD card under a specific name. Then reboot the Touch and go to software upgrade and you will have an option to upgrade to the firmware on the media. See this post for details: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=550584#post550584 -- JohnSwenson JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
Thanks for info about trick to get 7.6.0 via USB/SD card. Anyway, I moved to 7.6.0 and still have the same problem. I do not know how to explain it working for andyg but not me since he used my directory. -Dan -- danull danull's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5998 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
Phil Leigh;555602 Wrote: This is a bit of a long shot, but what file system is on your USB drive? FAT32/NTFS? NTFS - it is a Western Digital Elements 640 GB USB 2.0 portable drive. -Dan -- danull danull's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5998 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
danull;555607 Wrote: Presently NTFS - it is a Western Digital Elements 640 GB USB 2.0 portable drive. I did quickformat it yesterday and not sure what it was before that when I first started seeing the issue / may have been FAT before that but I'm not sure. -Dan There was a bug in beta whereby the alpha sort of files from the filesystem was case sensitive... as I said, it was a long shot... No idea what you are seeing. Artwork continues to look fine to me on 7.6 nightlies (since forever)... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
Phil Leigh;555611 Wrote: There was a bug in beta whereby the alpha sort of files from the filesystem was case sensitive... as I said, it was a long shot... No idea what you are seeing. Artwork continues to look fine to me on 7.6 nightlies (since forever)... The thing that confuses me is that AndyG said with embedded image (600x600 in my case) it will always be used... so wouldn't expect it to be picking up my lower resolution small album artwork resident in the same directories... anyway I removed the AlbumArtSmall.jpg and the other Small resolution image for 3 of my albums and another scan is in progress... On one hand my fingers are crossed on the other I don't know what I'm going to do if this resolves it...surely there is a reason for the small artwork that was created (I guess when I ripped these with Windows Media Player?) ... also might take me eons just to remove those if that's the answer... Will keep you posted :D -- danull danull's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5998 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
danull;555617 Wrote: The thing that confuses me is that AndyG said with embedded image (600x600 in my case) it will always be used... so wouldn't expect it to be picking up my lower resolution small album artwork resident in the same directories... anyway I removed the AlbumArtSmall.jpg and the other Small resolution image for 3 of my albums and another scan is in progress... On one hand my fingers are crossed on the other I don't know what I'm going to do if this resolves it...surely there is a reason for the small artwork that was created (I guess when I ripped these with Windows Media Player?) ... also might take me eons just to remove those if that's the answer... Will keep you posted :D I guess the thing is that SBS doesn't need the small artwork - just cover.jpg. If it turns out you have to get rid of the other .jpg files that's really easy.. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
Sure enough, removing AlbumArtSmall.jpg and the other
AlbumArt_{6D2583BF-582C-4668-9AE5-2E29F8500FE7}_Small.jpg from the 3
directories fixed my problem for the 3 albums I removed small album art
for.
So I guess my claim is that TinySC even on 7.6.0 is not using the
embedded art instead of .jpg images in the directory, and it is not
using files based on normal sorting by name (because
AlbumArt_{6D2583BF-582C-4668-9AE5-2E29F8500FE7}_Large.jpg would be used
rather than Small.jpg if that were the case).
I do not know how to explain this working for andyg unless NTFS / WD
Elements USB drive is somehow involved?
So I guess I have two questions for those who have been kind enough to
provide me feedback:
1) Will I hurt anything by deleting all the small album artwork across
the board? i.e. Ipeng for his little images he will be OK and just
scale down larger artwork, right? In other words - is it safe for me
to remove small album art across the board to sidestep this issue or
will it give me grief somewhere else later?
2) Should I be opening a bug on bugs.slimdevices.com or not bother
because I'm apparently the only person seeing it on TinySC and is
unlikely to be fixed anytime soon anyway (assuming you even agree it is
a bug!) ???
Thank you for your help so far,
-Dan
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Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
danull;555667 Wrote:
AlbumArt_{6D2583BF-582C-4668-9AE5-2E29F8500FE7}_Small.jpg
What exactly is that file? Did you create it with that name for some
reason or was it some automated download program?
1) Will I hurt anything by deleting all the small album artwork across
the board? i.e. Ipeng for his little images he will be OK and just
scale down larger artwork, right? In other words - is it safe for me
to remove small album art across the board to sidestep this issue or
will it give me grief somewhere else later?
No, I'm pretty certain that iPeng either gets resized images from the
server or resizes them itself. AlbumArtSmall hasn't been used by the
server for a number of years now.
BTW, you should be able to easily find and delete these by doing a
search in Windows Explorer. Do a search for albumart* and then you can
delete any or all of the files found from within the right hand window
of the search.
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Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
JJZolx;555673 Wrote: What exactly is that file? Did you create it with that name for some reason or was it some automated download program? It is created automatically by Windows Media Player when you rip music from CD. I have ripped most of my 1400 albums in WMA 192 KBps. Don't ask me why I know about Lossless etc - trying not to invite any snarky comments from FLACheads :D JJZolx;555673 Wrote: No, I'm pretty certain that iPeng either gets resized images from the server or resizes them itself. AlbumArtSmall hasn't been used by the server for a number of years now. BTW, you should be able to easily find and delete these by doing a search in Windows Explorer. Do a search for albumart* and then you can delete any or all of the files found from within the right hand window of the search. Thanks for the tip - if/when I remove the files I will give that a shot. -Dan -- danull danull's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5998 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
If you don't have one of the standard image filenames in the directory like cover.jpg or folder.jpg it will pick the first one alphabetically. Maybe that's the problem? -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
andyg, Thanks for the response. In the case of Natalee Merchant's Tigerlilyalbum for example I do have a cover.jpg in the directory along with the other images - but it is not showing artwork at that higher 500x500 resolution (looks a lt worse than that). -Dan -- danull danull's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5998 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
Would you mind uploading the directory so I can try and reproduce? You would only need to include 1 audio file and all the images. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Large_File_Upload -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
I appreciate you taking a look! I put Data for Forum Thread 79726 For AndyG.zip into /incoming - deleted all audio files except for one prior to zipping. Please let me know if I can assist in any other way... -Dan -- danull danull's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5998 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
OK looks fine, the mp3 file has an embedded image so that will always be used and none of the image files in the directory will be used. The image looks fine to me, it came from Amazon and is the usual 600x600. The actual quality of the image kinda sucks but I guess that's how this album looks. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
andyg, For giggles I just took a screenshot using SHIFT-PRT SC and uploaded the zipped BMP to /incoming as Data No. 2 for Forum Thread 79726 For AndyG.zip. This is a screenshot of Squeezeplay on my Netbook - it visually looks just as bad on iPeng and my Squeezebox Radio (certainly no 600x600 if you're saying that's what is embedded). -Dan -- danull danull's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5998 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
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Yeah that looks pretty bad, I'll look into it some more. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
I tested that album using TinySC under 7.6.0, and the artwork appears correctly. It's possible the issue is already fixed. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
I know about the nightly builds but not sure how to update the SBS when it is on the Touch to see if 7.6.0 fixes this issue (the nightly builds etc appear to be windows installables). In the meantime, I stopped SBS on the Touch and am trying a wipe and rescan to see if that makes any difference... looked for this option earlier but I guess SBS has to be stopped first before it appears. -Dan -- danull danull's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5998 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
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Oh I guess can't do nightly build unless I connect Touch to a computer: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77394highlight=touch+nightly+build Anyway, gave up on wipe and rescan after about 45 minutes because it still said it was removing the old stuff/not making progress. Found this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79198highlight=wipe+rescan Looks like Wipe and Rescan might not be any good on 7.5.1? So I attached the drive to my netbook and deleted the .Squeezebox folder and when I reattached the USB device it went through the discovery process and complete re-scan. Afterward, album artwork is still hosed. Sounds like my only option now is to figure out how to move to 7.6.0... -- danull danull's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5998 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
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Right. Is connecting the Touch to a computer a big deal? To get 7.6.0 firmware on the Touch you need to install Squeezebox Server 7.6.0 on a computer (with internet access) on your network. It will download new firmware from the 7.6 branch and you'll get an update notification on the Touch. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
No hidden thumbs.jpg that gets picked up ? No likewise hidden temp files in those directories I don't know if ~ sorts before a files are in one folder per album ? -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe'Primare and Dynadio speakers (including a pair of Contour 4 ) Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Miscellaneous use: Radio (with battery) I use a Controller various ir-remotes and a Eee-PC with squeezeplay to control this Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Horribly low resolution album artwork w/ TinySC and 7.5.1
JJZolx;555462 Wrote: Right. Is connecting the Touch to a computer a big deal? To get 7.6.0 firmware on the Touch you need to install Squeezebox Server 7.6.0 on a computer (with internet access) on your network. It will download new firmware from the 7.6 branch and you'll get an update notification on the Touch. Not super big deal...of course I got the portable USB drive expressly so I wouldn't need a computer. Also those of us without thousands of posts are a little more afraid of beta code, I suspect :-D - especially when there is no guarantee this will fix it. I got the nightly build of 7.6 on and it is scanning...wish me luck ;-) -- danull danull's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5998 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79726 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
