Official moOde 8 support thread

[Nutul]

I have created a test cover file and also attached the result I see in the WebUI on my notebook. Thanks for having a look!

Best regards
Jens

Cover file (500 x 350):


Main screen:


Tag view:


Album view:

I've gotten to this item on the TODO list and I have some comments and questions.

Comments:

Since the aspect ration of these DVD style covers is portrait the way to format them so they can correctly be displayed as Album art is to actually add letterboxing on the sides using an image editor In my case using Pixelmator I would expand the canvas horizontally to match the image height and then fill the new empty side spaces in the canvas with black or gray. I end up with a square image after doing that and it appears correctly in the WebUI.

If thats not done and instead the CSS is modified as @Nutul suggested we end up with oddness in several areas:

1. In Album view the (...) menu icon is halfway outside the cover image
2. In Playback view it just looks odd seeing a DVD sized cover :-0
3. In Playbar, Folder view, Queue, etc the small thumbs are already square but the image is heavily distorted. It may be some upstream CSS that making them square or possibly something in the Thumbnail generator.

Question:

How many of these types of covers are we talking about in a typical music collection?

You can manipulate all the images in batch with imagemagik. I actually use it to crop / rescale the album art in all my flacs to always be 500x500
Its syntax is not the easiest to understand, but given an image it can do literally everything to it.