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Cover Art support for DOSCab/WinCab Jukebox

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Chris:

--- Quote from: Space Fractal / Denmark on January 01, 2005, 12:20:16 pm ---Chris, should we made a link exchange from mine and your app on the homepage?

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I haven't updated my "other jukeboxes" link in far too long.  I have your jukebox on my page now.  :)

--Chris

visciouslymamed:
I don't know what your cd layout looks like, but a lot of cd jukebox programs have a browse page (lots of small covers) and a tracklist page (1 cover supersized). If you will be using this layout, could you add support for a second hi-rez image. When the tracklist page loads, if the large image is not found then use the smaller browse image.

Chris:

--- Quote from: visciouslymamed on January 03, 2005, 04:09:10 pm ---I don't know what your cd layout looks like, but a lot of cd jukebox programs have a browse page (lots of small covers) and a tracklist page (1 cover supersized). If you will be using this layout, could you add support for a second hi-rez image. When the tracklist page loads, if the large image is not found then use the smaller browse image.

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I am not planning a separate "browse" page for the CD skins, so only one size of cover image will ever be needed.

--Chris

andrewhannay:
The way I see this is going to work then, is I will be able to display the full album cover (with full name and artist) and the tracks will not be restricted to the 8 character file name as you will read the ID3 tags. This will get over having to list tracks in directory or album order and will give it real CD Jukebox feel. Can't wait for this version.

Chris:

--- Quote from: andrewhannay on January 06, 2005, 10:18:54 am ---The way I see this is going to work then, is I will be able to display the full album cover (with full name and artist) and the tracks will not be restricted to the 8 character file name as you will read the ID3 tags. This will get over having to list tracks in directory or album order and will give it real CD Jukebox feel. Can't wait for this version.

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Yes.  Right now, the album name, cover art and artist come from the first track on the album.  I may change artist to look at all the songs on the album and take the artist that matches at least 50% of the songs, otherwise list it as "Various Artists".  Songs that have no album information will get lumped together on an album called "Singles".  (The text "Various Artists" and "Singles" can be changed in jukebox.ini.

Track numbers come from ID3 tags, or if that information is not available, it looks to see if the filename starts with a number (like 02 - Stairway to Heaven.mp3) and if so it uses that number as the track number.  (This won't always be correct, of course; 99 Red Balloons.mp3 would show up as track 99 in the absence of any other track information, but nothing's perfect).


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

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