still no album art in mini player mode?; other questions and comments
Rick Moore
mini player?
It was a little disconcerting for the "this is the first time media library
has been used" message to come up but instead of immediately going to the F3
search button I watched as the player started adding all of my music and
playlists on its own, it even found some album art that I hadn't had before.
The "add pictures" tab in the tag editor is a lot better, it doesn't crash
now when trying to redo album art.
Is the font size controllable? In the album art pane the song title gets cut
off after 16 characters or so when the pane is sized to a 200 by 200
picture.
The "volume leveling applied" message is overlapping the end of the volume
leveling control (screen resolution 1600 x 1200 with 115% DPI)
Overall, though, good job on WMP RC; too bad there is too much Real
proprietary format stuff on the net to get rid of Real products
altogether...
Jeff Gabhart
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> > The "add pictures" tab in the tag editor is a lot better, it doesn't
crash
> > now when trying to redo album art.
>
> Glad to see that adding your own "Folder.jpg" works as it should now too.
whoa whoa.
did i miss something. how does this work. if the picture is named folder.jpg
it will come up as album art ?
is it possible to change that filename to say cover.jpg (which all of mine
are named)?
thanks!
Richard Lane
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> > > The "add pictures" tab in the tag editor is a lot better, it doesn't
> crash
> > > now when trying to redo album art.
> >
> > Glad to see that adding your own "Folder.jpg" works as it should now
too.
>
> whoa whoa.
> did i miss something. how does this work. if the picture is named
folder.jpg
> it will come up as album art ?
Correct. :-)
I use high quality scans of my CD covers rather than those provided by AMG
when/if it finds an album. I scan at 200dpi and then in Paint Shop Pro scale
it down to 300x300 pixels, add a slight sharpening and they look superb in
WMP. Each album folder has it's own artwork when viewed in thumbnail mode as
a bonus.
> is it possible to change that filename to say cover.jpg (which all of mine
> are named)?
No it must be "folder.jpeg" or it wont work.
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Richard Lane
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> mini player?
That would be nice.
> The "add pictures" tab in the tag editor is a lot better, it doesn't crash
> now when trying to redo album art.
Glad to see that adding your own "Folder.jpg" works as it should now too.
> Is the font size controllable? In the album art pane the song title gets
cut
> off after 16 characters or so when the pane is sized to a 200 by 200
> picture.
>
> The "volume leveling applied" message is overlapping the end of the volume
> leveling control (screen resolution 1600 x 1200 with 115% DPI)
While there's no direct way (that I can find) in WMP9 to change the font, it
uses the same font and size as that set for icons. change it to something
different and/or smaller and see the effect in WMP9. You might also try
knocking down the size a few percent from 115% to say 112% that might just
be enough.
> Overall, though, good job on WMP RC; too bad there is too much Real
> proprietary format stuff on the net to get rid of Real products
> altogether...
Real should've been strangled at birth. :-) Horrible format.
Marco
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>>> > Glad to see that adding your own "Folder.jpg" works
as it should now
>too.
>>
>> whoa whoa.
>> did i miss something. how does this work. if the
picture is named
>folder.jpg
>> it will come up as album art ?
>
>Correct. :-)
>
>I use high quality scans of my CD covers rather than
those provided by AMG
>when/if it finds an album. I scan at 200dpi and then in
Paint Shop Pro scale
>it down to 300x300 pixels, add a slight sharpening and
they look superb in
>WMP. Each album folder has it's own artwork when viewed
in thumbnail mode as
>a bonus.
>
using inside foto's and backsides of the cover. Put that
in the folder go to folder properties and chose the
animatee gif as the folder default picture. This wil be
shown as the album art in wmp. Instead of a static
pictures you will can have some kind of slide show or
even quick moving pictures.
Richard Lane
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WOW just tried it and it works, cool tip thanks for that one, I have a few
ideas of other uses for this as well. Though I can't help thinking that
maybe things like CD booklet and other related artwork should really go in
the Tag Info in the Info Centre.