Dr Lovegrove;248866 Wrote: > On 13/12/2007, btcompute > <btcompute.31jsyb1197579901 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com> > wrote: > > > > This is slightly off the subject, but what is the reason for > assigning > > colors to the cover art? > > The library and cover chooser windows can sort albums by brightness, > hue, saturation, all 'sorts' of stuff.. (prefs->library->colour sort > mode) > > The cover chooser can filter on various colour options > (cover chooser->search->colours) > > When populating the cover-art window, the hue is used to draw the > item before the cached thumbnail has been loaded. > > Also in non-layout mode if you turn off the artwork, the circles are > drawn with the hue too. > > Once the artwork image is in memory, generating the average hue is > seriously quick.. It just resizes the art to a 1x1 bitmap.. Grabbing > the > full-sized thumbnail from slimserver and saving the 100x100 resized > thumbnail as a jpeg are the things which take time during scanning.. > > -- > - Dr Lovegrove > http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove > http://groups.google.com/group/moosenews
Thanks, I guess that explans what is going on. Perhaps I'm in the minority here, but I see no value at all in sorting albums by color. I don't see how that is going to help you decide what music you want to listen to, or speed up the process of finding an album I have in mind. I'd much rather select by Artist, or Genre,(much faster way to make a selection) but that's just my opinion. With or without this color stuff, I think Moose is a great tool. Thanks, Brian -- btcompute ------------------------------------------------------------------------ btcompute's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10847 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41031 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
