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Cover Art support for DOSCab/WinCab Jukebox

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Chris:
I'm working on getting the CD skins working for DOSCab/WinCab Jukebox, and of ourse the most attractive thing about a CD-based jukebox is the cover art.

GadgetGeek:
Not a must have, but maybe support for *.png as well?  Granted, most folks are getting their covers from Amazon, WalMart, or whatever and they are usually in .jpg format.

Also, I currently have my covers in a separate folder with the title being Artist_Album.jpg (actually two folders, one for large (300x300) and one for midsize (140x140)), but I'm thinking of moving them to the album directories.

Finally, if it doesn't find a cover, how are you planning to display a cover?  Generate a generic Album/Artist cover?

Space Fractal:
To my own folder based jukebox (Arcade Music Box), I did a "foldername/folder.jpg" and a "foldername/foldername.jpg" support.

You should start with the folder.jpg support, because it was that way Windows Media Player (I didn't know about this, until a user asked me for that).

You can either made a scaling support (downscaling), so it auto scaling to it fit that skin (like I did).

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Chris, should we made a link exchange from mine and your app on the homepage?
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Chris:

--- Quote from: GadgetGeek on January 01, 2005, 10:14:27 am ---Not a must have, but maybe support for *.png as well?
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GadgetGeek:

--- Quote from: Chris on January 01, 2005, 04:14:59 pm ---
--- Quote ---Also, I currently have my covers in a separate folder with the title being Artist_Album.jpg (actually two folders, one for large (300x300) and one for midsize (140x140)), but I'm thinking of moving them to the album directories.

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Do you have a player that uses them that way?

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No...it is just how I've got them for now so I can figure out what ones I'm still missing.     Makes my life a little easier during the ripping phase of my project.  I'll probably throw together a quick script to move them into the album directories like the rest of the world.
And png is a non-issue for me.  Just thought I'd mention it since it seems like all the mame screenshots and what not are png.

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