[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] mythtv commit: r13040 by stuartm

[Stuart Morgan]

On Thursday 15 March 2007 18:24:15 Paul Harrison wrote:

> Just a thought, how about adding an additional field in the
> music_albumart table to indicate what each image represents like front
> cover, back cover, cd, inlay etc. The reason I ask is I always create at
> least three images when I rip a cd - front.jpg, back.jpg and cd.jpg. At
> the moment there is no way to be sure what entry in that table is the
> front cover which is what you would usually use in an album art viewer.
> In the music browser that I am working on (see this thread
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/255140#255140 ) I
> currently just look for the front.jpg image in the albums directory but
> that isn't going to work for everybody unless we force everyone to use
> the same naming convention!

Makes a lot of sense to me. I did think the album artwork feature could be 
expanded to add new features and it would make sense to distinguish between 
front/back etc

> If you where to add that field I would extend the metadata editor by
> adding another page that would allow the user to both view the images
> and select what each image represents. It could also be possible to
> integrate one of the cover art grabbing scripts that would find any
> missing cover images?

If you could make the editor changes that would be great. I'm not sure about 
integrating a grabbing script, there was a mention of the legal hoops 
involved in grabbing from somewhere such as Amazon. It might be be such a big 
deal considering grabbers are used elsewhere to scrape information e.g. IMDB, 
but I'd like to avoid getting Isaac and the project into trouble. 

> I'd also like to change the AlbumArt visualizer so that by default it
> will show the front cover and add a key press and/or a popup menu to
> allow the user to change what image is shown.

Again sounds good. I only made the minimum changes to the visualizer required 
to read the album info from the database - some more work could be done there 
to clean up and improve it.

-- 
Stuart Morgan