On Donnerstag 02 Oktober 2008, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Jason Tackaberry wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 12:18 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > >> You can not add covers to the db, they MUST be in the > >> filesystem. Beacon supports the basic styles like folder.ext and > >> movie.avi.ext with ext jpg or png. Besides that covers in id3 > >> tags. The thumbnailing of this images are done in beacon and the image > >> is stored in ~/.thumbnails. > > > > Well, theoretically you _could_ create a buffer attribute that contains > > the cover image.
Yes, that's what I was thinking; then, beacon would really duplicate all necessary information. OTOH, we all know this is ugly. Filename columns + the overlay directory are the right solution. > Using ~/.thumnails is freedesktop.org standard so it works between > freevo and other prjects. Except that we use epeg for faster jpeg > thumbnailing. That is against the standard and stolen from > enlightenment. Yes, but as Jason already pointed out, I was not talking about thumbnails, which are sort of "lossy duplicates". I was talking about real duplicates of the cover images that could be used/displayed when the respective removable media is not available. -- Ciao, / / .o. /--/ ..o / / ANS ooo
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