I started a thread on this some time ago. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?81716-Showing-CD-Inserts-(album-notes). As a new user of SB I found this deficiency to be a major drawback and devised my own standalone solution in the hope that one of the developers would implement such functionality. I was a bit surprised in the lack of interest generated and concluded that I was unusual in wanting this facility. I have since written my own controller application and have integrated cd insert (or backcover) viewing into it. Pretty straight-forward to implement this but a few observations from my experiences:-
1. Scanning the cd inserts was not entirely straight-forward, especially from older cds where thin paper was used with consequent bleed through. I reckon I have spent as least as much time scanning and cropping as I have in tagging. 2. Presumably, some sort of standardisation of file naming would be needed if an app were to be made widely available by a developer. For what its worth, I store mine as gifs in the music/album folders, 1.gif for the first page, 2.gif for the second, etc. 3. The quality of information included on the inserts is pretty variable and seems to be declining (another sign of 'progress'). I tend to supplement or replace the cd inserts with reviews from the web, allmusic for example. As I mostly buy mp3 downloads these days (since proving by experiment that I can't hear the difference from flac) I don't have the inserts so use reviews exclusively. (sorry, dunno if the link I posted is clickable, haven't done that before). Jerry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JerryS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38998 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99188 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
