hi there,
with a lot of pleasure i noticed the new wide icon support, which is also discussed over at xbox-scene.com. now, in my eyes it would be a great feature to generally get icons automatically. there is a site called mediaicons.org, maintained by emp3r0r, which is growing quite fast and can be seen as the #1 wide icons archive.
furthermore, i am processing the cover data of the 150k covers at cdcovers.cc into another icon type we call "tilted" icons. those are nice looking 3d shots, with the advantage that they can be generated automatically per script, which is what i am doing as we speak.
so atm, there are ~1000 wide icons, 5000+ tilted (and ~20'000 more to come once finished generating) hosted at mediaicons.org, and available via an easy-accessible api (amazon.com has an api for things like that as well, just to mention it).
so in my understanding, this could work like this: from a user's perspective, the "get thumb" module has another option "search online", which runs a search and displays the result as 64x64 icons. the style settings (wide, tilted, with shadow etc) can be configured in sources.xml, by adding the settings to the bookmark/thumbnail element, for example:
so what do you guys think about it? i'm interested in comments and suggestions, and of course the feedback of our fellow developers :)
...and since this post perhaps needs an eye catcher, here some examples of the new icon styles: ;)
with a lot of pleasure i noticed the new wide icon support, which is also discussed over at xbox-scene.com. now, in my eyes it would be a great feature to generally get icons automatically. there is a site called mediaicons.org, maintained by emp3r0r, which is growing quite fast and can be seen as the #1 wide icons archive.
furthermore, i am processing the cover data of the 150k covers at cdcovers.cc into another icon type we call "tilted" icons. those are nice looking 3d shots, with the advantage that they can be generated automatically per script, which is what i am doing as we speak.
so atm, there are ~1000 wide icons, 5000+ tilted (and ~20'000 more to come once finished generating) hosted at mediaicons.org, and available via an easy-accessible api (amazon.com has an api for things like that as well, just to mention it).
so in my understanding, this could work like this: from a user's perspective, the "get thumb" module has another option "search online", which runs a search and displays the result as 64x64 icons. the style settings (wide, tilted, with shadow etc) can be configured in sources.xml, by adding the settings to the bookmark/thumbnail element, for example:
Code:
<bookmark>
<name>Movies</name>
<path>F:\Movies\</path>
<thumbnail>
<mediaicons category="2" format="2" style="2" />
</thumbnail>
</bookmark>so what do you guys think about it? i'm interested in comments and suggestions, and of course the feedback of our fellow developers :)
...and since this post perhaps needs an eye catcher, here some examples of the new icon styles: ;)
