11-19-2018, 10:49 PM
The following is based on my personal experience.
There are two sources for these type of files.
The first is from downloading music from a company such as HDTracks. They sometimes include a booklet with the music. I believe that Apple used to offer something similar with their "album" purchase option, but I have never seen one of those and I don't believe they are available any more. Apple did provide and SDK for creating booklets for iTunes albums. These booklets typically come in one of two styles, either just an electronic copy of the booklet included with the original CD, so two booklet pages per PDF page, or a booklet that seems to be produced specifically for electronic download. The later are normally one booklet page per PDF page. I have not run across any site that has these available for download like you get with album covers.
The second way to get these is to scan the booklet and then either assemble that booklet into a PDF or just place all of the .jpg images in the same folder.
I have one music player that just looks for .jpg files in the song directory and displays something that looks like the moOde Albums by Artist page when the booklet display is selected. The other player will only display specifically named booklets.
As far as the naming of the files I have not found much consistency. Most include the album name. I started using the 0-Liner Notes prefix as that is what HDtrack used initially. If I remember correctly that prefix would be followed by the product number or something else that was not very user friendly. HDtracks has now changed to a different format. I personally use 0-Liner Notes and 0-Album Cover prefix followed by the Album Name. There would be a question as to what album name to use, the one that is found in the Album tag, or the name of the directory. The Album cover is nothing more than two pages, one with the front artwork, the second with the back artwork. There have been a number of "album CDs" produced that have a reproduction of the original album artwork, so that back of the album has a lot text sometimes. It would be hard to manage the booklets if they were all just named 0-Booklet.pdf.
As far as displaying the information I have always seen it done as a separate window that pops up and allows you to scroll through the booklet without disturbing the player. One player I have doesn't display booklets, but it pops up a CD case that has 3 or 4 tabs, one of which is the artists picture and bio, so a very similar concept.
I think this is something that should only display when the user requests it. The indication that there is a booklet to display should be an icon on the Playback screen, or perhaps on the CoverView screen as well.
Cheers, Bryce.
There are two sources for these type of files.
The first is from downloading music from a company such as HDTracks. They sometimes include a booklet with the music. I believe that Apple used to offer something similar with their "album" purchase option, but I have never seen one of those and I don't believe they are available any more. Apple did provide and SDK for creating booklets for iTunes albums. These booklets typically come in one of two styles, either just an electronic copy of the booklet included with the original CD, so two booklet pages per PDF page, or a booklet that seems to be produced specifically for electronic download. The later are normally one booklet page per PDF page. I have not run across any site that has these available for download like you get with album covers.
The second way to get these is to scan the booklet and then either assemble that booklet into a PDF or just place all of the .jpg images in the same folder.
I have one music player that just looks for .jpg files in the song directory and displays something that looks like the moOde Albums by Artist page when the booklet display is selected. The other player will only display specifically named booklets.
As far as the naming of the files I have not found much consistency. Most include the album name. I started using the 0-Liner Notes prefix as that is what HDtrack used initially. If I remember correctly that prefix would be followed by the product number or something else that was not very user friendly. HDtracks has now changed to a different format. I personally use 0-Liner Notes and 0-Album Cover prefix followed by the Album Name. There would be a question as to what album name to use, the one that is found in the Album tag, or the name of the directory. The Album cover is nothing more than two pages, one with the front artwork, the second with the back artwork. There have been a number of "album CDs" produced that have a reproduction of the original album artwork, so that back of the album has a lot text sometimes. It would be hard to manage the booklets if they were all just named 0-Booklet.pdf.
As far as displaying the information I have always seen it done as a separate window that pops up and allows you to scroll through the booklet without disturbing the player. One player I have doesn't display booklets, but it pops up a CD case that has 3 or 4 tabs, one of which is the artists picture and bio, so a very similar concept.
I think this is something that should only display when the user requests it. The indication that there is a booklet to display should be an icon on the Playback screen, or perhaps on the CoverView screen as well.
Cheers, Bryce.
