2008-03-06, 22:16
Hi people who made life better for us all...
I think more people would like to see this happening...
It would be nice to see artistimages in xbmc. I use a artist.jpg as default for showing photo's of artists or bands and store them with my music.
It's some work to gather all these pics and it would be great if xbmc could work with it like it works with a folder.jpg (or how it works in foobar2000-configs that show artist-thumbs)
There are several places an artistphoto would be nice, first off al as a folderimage. My music is organized by artist, an artist map has all its albums in it (sorted by year). I know i could rename my artist.jpg to folder.jpg to make the artist.jpg appear as foldericon. But then some other options i name further in this post wouldnt then be possible (see about library)
It would be great if i can choose between a folder.jpg and a artist.jpg (maybe as an option in maplayout for musicfolders). I know many people also have the same folderstructure (1 artist, more albums as submap) and have one map with all the artist.jpg's in it, called pink floyd.jpg for example.
I would like to keep this artist.jpg or pink floyd.jpg and not rename it to folder.jpg so its nicely organized on the pc too. (windows will show the album art and the artist art on the folder, and for example foobar2000 uses artist.jpg as default name in all its configs.)
Not only in the music-directory its nice to see artist.jpg, but for example in the little info bar that goes over the .vis screen that also has the album art and songinfo. It would look great to see an artist.jpg next to the album art if an artist.jpg or pink floyd.jpg is available.
Also in musiclibrary in the artist-selectionscreen it would be nice to see the artist.jpg and in de album-selectionscreen the albumart. Thats why my main question is to go with artist.jpg and make xbmc understand that it is an extra feature.
(extra uberkewl: a sort of crossfading albumart/artistart thumb in the miniplayer-icon when playing music in background ...
http://forum.xbmc.org/images/smilies2/yes4lo.gif
I hope things like this are possible and you can create a global xbmc-feature for it, or is it something that can be changed in skinsettings only and has to be coded because its allready possible in xbmc, but not in the skins?
I think more people would like to see this happening...
It would be nice to see artistimages in xbmc. I use a artist.jpg as default for showing photo's of artists or bands and store them with my music.
It's some work to gather all these pics and it would be great if xbmc could work with it like it works with a folder.jpg (or how it works in foobar2000-configs that show artist-thumbs)
There are several places an artistphoto would be nice, first off al as a folderimage. My music is organized by artist, an artist map has all its albums in it (sorted by year). I know i could rename my artist.jpg to folder.jpg to make the artist.jpg appear as foldericon. But then some other options i name further in this post wouldnt then be possible (see about library)
It would be great if i can choose between a folder.jpg and a artist.jpg (maybe as an option in maplayout for musicfolders). I know many people also have the same folderstructure (1 artist, more albums as submap) and have one map with all the artist.jpg's in it, called pink floyd.jpg for example.
I would like to keep this artist.jpg or pink floyd.jpg and not rename it to folder.jpg so its nicely organized on the pc too. (windows will show the album art and the artist art on the folder, and for example foobar2000 uses artist.jpg as default name in all its configs.)
Not only in the music-directory its nice to see artist.jpg, but for example in the little info bar that goes over the .vis screen that also has the album art and songinfo. It would look great to see an artist.jpg next to the album art if an artist.jpg or pink floyd.jpg is available.
Also in musiclibrary in the artist-selectionscreen it would be nice to see the artist.jpg and in de album-selectionscreen the albumart. Thats why my main question is to go with artist.jpg and make xbmc understand that it is an extra feature.
(extra uberkewl: a sort of crossfading albumart/artistart thumb in the miniplayer-icon when playing music in background ...
http://forum.xbmc.org/images/smilies2/yes4lo.gif
I hope things like this are possible and you can create a global xbmc-feature for it, or is it something that can be changed in skinsettings only and has to be coded because its allready possible in xbmc, but not in the skins?