just figured out another tip that may help those getting artwork from
WMP...
earlier, i described my process of using WMP to get artwork either
during a rip, or after the fact.
in a small, but 'annoyingly speaking' statistically significant amount
of the time, WMP will show you the correct
MrSinatra Wrote:
so in my shortcut for SS i put the switch i want to use with the
artwork? kinda clumsy, but i at least know how to do that. can i use
more than one switch for artwork? what if they conflict?
and what if some artwork is taller than wide, while others are wider
than
Quoting MrSinatra [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
kdf, can u clarify for us?
u said the switch goes on the windows command line for slim, is this
not the case?
You asked about command switches, so my response explained how to
set command switches for slimserver. These would include any commands
i see, so its not a command line switch, its a function that the skin
you use itself decides.
for those of you using 6.5, do any of the skins allow the user to
determine which option to use?
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www.LION-Radio.org
Using:
Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.3 - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram
after all this, even I've forgotten. What option was it that you need
exactly ?
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kdf
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View this thread:
on this link:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?AlbumArtwork
under the last part regarding server side resizing, six options are
given:
s - Stretch
S - Squash
p - Pad
c - Crop
f - Fit stretch
F - Fit squash
do any skins allow the user to set these, or its whatever the skin says
it
On 12-Jul-06, at 6:12 PM, MrSinatra wrote:
do any skins allow the user to set these, or its whatever the skin says
it is?
currently the skin determines it in every case.
just about every skin aside from the nokia770 skin takes artwork image
tags from the fallback (EN) skin
A few thoughts -
For mp3s, I think embedding the album art into each file tag is a
viable choice. For a 200x200 pixel jpg we're usually talking about an
extra 8k-10k per track. For a 10,000 track library, that's only about
100MB total. You'll never have a problem with image filenames or
its a great suggestion, as long as you're willing to come over to my
place and embed all the jpgs into the 51+days worth of songs i have.
;)
no thx, i don't know how to, don't want the extra step, and don't want
to waste the space.
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MrSinatra
www.LION-Radio.org
Using:
Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.3
egd Wrote:
I presume the option you're referring to is Server
settings/Interface/BROWSE BY ARTWORK ORDER? I've just updated to the
latest nightly and set this to Artist, Album, however, slimserver
continues to present me with the albumlist sorted by album title,
ignoring altogether the
I think it's more a 'work in progress' than a bug, as the way that
'browse artwork' works is being changed.
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Patrick Dixon
www.at-tunes.co.uk
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kdf Wrote:
Quoting MrSinatra MrSinatra.2ajm3z1152221401 (AT) no-mx (DOT)
forums.slimdevices.com:
you're kinda losing me here. what is GD? is it part of slim
server?
what is its connection to this issue?
GD is a library of image manipulation tools. The server can use these
to do
On 8-Jul-06, at 2:06 PM, MrSinatra wrote:
i looked at the wiki, and found it very confusing. where would one
input those command switches?
c:\program files\slimserver\server\slim.exe is the command line for
windows
or you can set the debug switches in server settings-debugging (link
for
On 8-Jul-06, at 1:27 AM, cbemoore wrote:
Browse by artwork order used to work perfectly in 6.5, but it broke
when the split-scanner code was merged to 6.5. I don't know if a bug
has been filed or not (I couldn't find one after a quick seach), but
kdf will probably know
I have tried using WMP to download artwork and it seems to work only
sporadically. Is there a reliable method built into the program that I
am missing? Find Album info pulls up the artwork, but even verifying
the album track by track does not always download the art.
Secondly, I failed to
Mongo Wrote:
I have tried using WMP to download artwork and it seems to work only
sporadically. Is there a reliable method built into the program that I
am missing? Find Album info pulls up the artwork, but even verifying
the album track by track does not always download the art.
i'll try
aubuti Wrote:
I don't have an answer for your second issue. As for the first,
slimserver 6.5b1 has just the option you are asking for. I don't know
if it is in 6.3.0 or not.
I presume the option you're referring to is Server
settings/Interface/BROWSE BY ARTWORK ORDER? I've just updated to
I don't have an answer for your second issue. As for the first,
slimserver 6.5b1 has just the option you are asking for. I don't know
if it is in 6.3.0 or not.
Note that 6.5b1 is clearly beta software and is not yet stable, so if
you upgrade to 6.5b1 to get this feature then be prepared to also
Would setting up a central store of artwork sort issue 2 for you ?
Server Side resizing is also available, but only in 6.5 currently
according to the wiki.
As I understand it, there's only limited functionality to change the
way that Slimserver handles artwork by default, but the central store
first, thx for the reply.
i am currently running 6.3 and my file format is mp3, (256kbps).
aubuti Wrote:
I don't have an answer for your second issue. As for the first,
slimserver 6.5b1 has just the option you are asking for. I don't know
if it is in 6.3.0 or not.
Note that 6.5b1 is
hi, thx for your reply as well, i'll answer inline:
Siduhe Wrote:
Would setting up a central store of artwork sort issue 2 for you?
not really... i like to keep the artwork in with the album folder, so
i don't get a big mess, and so it is separate from the files. i can
visually see right
MrSinatra Wrote:
1. if u choose browse artwork it puts all your albums in alphabetical
order according to album name! no regard for artists.
6.5, which should be out within the next couple months addresses this.
I haven't quite kept up with the latest release of 6.5, but there is an
option
Quoting JJZolx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It doesn't - SlimServer is capable of knowing exactly _one_ image for
an album (and its tracks). It resizes that one image in the Browse
Artwork view.
There are two: cover and coverThumb (as slimserver sees them). The
cover images look for artwork with
MrSinatra Wrote:
for as long as i've had SS it seems to always grab the 75x75 jpg, and
then scale it up to 100x100, which is why i noticed b/c that looks
crappy, but it does do it... is that not server side resizing?
My apology for the bum advice. I think kdf's post should clear up
Quoting JJZolx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
MrSinatra Wrote:
for as long as i've had SS it seems to always grab the 75x75 jpg, and
then scale it up to 100x100, which is why i noticed b/c that looks
crappy, but it does do it... is that not server side resizing?
My apology for the bum advice. I think
kdf Wrote:
There is a pref to size the thumbnails in browse artwork (server
settings-interface) so you can set those to the thumbnail size of
your images if you really want. Fro 6.5, If you have the GD library
installed, then slismerver will resize the images before they are sent
Quoting JJZolx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
kdf Wrote:
There is a pref to size the thumbnails in browse artwork (server
settings-interface) so you can set those to the thumbnail size of
your images if you really want. Fro 6.5, If you have the GD library
installed, then slismerver will resize the images
guys...
you're kinda losing me here. what is GD? is it part of slim server?
what is its connection to this issue?
here's how i think artwork should be handled by slim server:
1. you should be able to set within reason whatever pixel size you want
displayed in browsing artwork. i know you
MrSinatra Wrote:
you're kinda losing me here. what is GD? is it part of slim server?
what is its connection to this issue?
GD is a package(?) added to SlimServer 6.5 to resize artwork on the
fly. It generates, server-side, a resized image. SlimServer then
caches that image so that it's not
Quoting MrSinatra [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
you're kinda losing me here. what is GD? is it part of slim server?
what is its connection to this issue?
GD is a library of image manipulation tools. The server can use these
to do much better resizing and offer several options for aspect ratio,
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