Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] album covers

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

fre 2003-05-16 klockan 09.12 skrev Daniel Borgmann:
> On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 07:24, Douglas McMorris wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 14:09, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > > tor 2003-05-15 klockan 09.21 skrev Luca Ferretti:
> > > > Il mer, 2003-05-14 alle 17:44, Jorn Baayen ha scritto:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I think it would be nice support album covers in one way or another,
> > > > > because it's fancy but above all it provides a very easy way (imho) to
> > > > > find the album you're looking for. At least from the CDs I have I know
> > > > > the covers pretty well, and I 'read' them much faster too than the album
> > > > > titles. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I do not think we should include the album cover in the playing area or
> > > > > osmething, because it would not fit the theme often, be big, ugly, and
> > > > > also useless there. However, maybe thumbnails in the album view would be
> > > > > nice.. although they'd probably have to be fairly small.. and look
> > > > > inconsistent with the artist browser. Hm, so we need something else.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > mmhh something like View -> Cool view? Choose it and enable
> > > > visualization plugin, spectrum analyzer and the the album cover near
> > > > song's name....ok, it's totally mad....
> > > 
> > > Album cover near song name.. naaargh.. useless .. :)
> > > 
> > > imho having two browser modes is pretty borked actually, but I think
> > > there must be some way to put album covers to use in a sensible way.. 
> > 
> > There was some discussion long ago about having a small, skinnable
> > player mode... perhaps we could resurect this idea... this would be the
> > place for such eye-candy-esk features i think.
> > 
> > that said... that would probably be crack and not a good solution.  what
> > if we just put it beside the artist and title (to the left) and have a
> > pref for it... if it takes up too much space for people they could leave
> > it off (make it off by default of course)
> 
> Nah. ;) Here are two more ideas:
> 1) A special "albums view" which would show the albums as thumbnailed
> covers (not a list, but rather like a Nautilus icon view).

That'd actually not really work for big cd collections. We'd have to
find some way to sort or filter that...

> 2) I'm not sure if this was alread in Evolution 1.2 so this applies to
> Evolution 1.3:  If you create a new "group" in the shortcut bar, a new
> header is shown at the bottom. If you click this header, it smoothly
> scrolls to the top, exposing its contents. If you click on another
> header, the new group will scroll down again. That's  pretty cool. :D So
> what I'm thinking is, there could be a header "Albums" in the source
> list which is down by default and when clicked shows all your albums
> with cover thumbnails instead of your regular sources. I hope this made
> any sense to you now. ;)

Interesting one. While it wouldnt work for my several hundred albums we
could support 'group icons' or something, and make albums dragged to the
sidebar create a new playlist with the album cover as icon.

Cheers

> 
> Daniel
> 
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