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Cover Art support for DOSCab/WinCab Jukebox

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andrewhannay:
>The resulting title cards should end up looking like the ones on a physical CD jukebox, not a video jukebox

Excellent! Excactly how I want it.

garyh:
Hi Chris,

Any chance of support for:

Coverart1=drive:\directory\artist - album.jpg

If you don't ask etc . . .  ;)

Best regards

Gary

Chris:

--- Quote from: garyh on June 16, 2005, 02:04:05 pm ---Hi Chris,

Any chance of support for:

Coverart1=drive:\directory\artist - album.jpg

--- End quote ---
Well, anything is of course possible... :)  I wasn't aware anyone actually stored album covers in this fashion.  I guess I would need to account for all of these possibilities:

drive:\directory\artist - album.jpg
drive:\directory\artist\album.jpg
drive:\directory\song.jpg
drive:\directory\artist - song.jpg

Seems like I did a poll on this subject way back when and the only way anyone seemed to be storing album covers was in the folder with the music.  Right now, during indexing, when I first enter a folder I grab an image based on the art rules, and then I apply that to all songs found in the folder. What I would have to do in this case is once I find the album and artist, look through the alternate folder for a match.  This, of course, takes extra work and slows down the indexer, whch is why I didn't bother if no one organized their collection this way.

What I would probably do if I needed to implement this would be to have an ArtFolder parameter that you could set to drive:\directory, preindex all images in that folder and its subfolders, and then for each song, look for artist - album.jpg, artist\album.jpg, song.jpg, etc. within that pre-index.  If you don't have an ArtFolder, you don't really lose performance because the size of the preindex is 0 and the extra searches never happen.

So is anyone actually storing their art this way?  If so, is there a particular reason (i.e. this is how MusicMatch or iTunes or something stores the art)?

Thanks!

--Chris

garyh:
Sorry Chris, suppose I should have said that this is the format used by TouchTone http://www.mp3touchscreens.com/touchtone/ which is what I am using until WinCab supports a touchscreen under Win98  :)

Personally I like the idea of keeping the JPGs separate from the OGGs.

regards

Gary

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