>but alphabetical is ALWAYS going to be purely arbitrary, whereas the >others have a much higher chance of getting it right. (in other words, >more likely to be desired behavior in most cases) > Disagree - there's no evidence that filesize/resolution would be a higher chance of being right. All methods are arbitrary.
>this whole thing is for unsophisticated users who are unaware. > I think your case is flawed. Will unsophisticated users have multiple artwork images in a folder? i.e. How will unsophisticated users get more than one file in their folders? Unsophisticated users will either not have artwork, or will use a ripper that retrieves one image and puts it into tags, or will create a single file, or use WMP that may produce several images but one will be folder.jpg. SBS already goes a long way to choosing artwork, and if it gets it wrong and the user cares, they can fix it by tagging or renaming files (or changing settings). Other media player apps don't do half of what SBS scanner does, eg. iTunes doesn't find any file artwork. I'd much rather developers worked on more useful functionality, rather than fall-back situations like this. I'd also prefer less complex code - your suggestions could be slower, would need to be made to work cross-platform and therefore the scanner could be more prone to errors. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
