Author Topic: Multiple Album Covers visable Simultaneously  (Read 1656 times)

MFFMCCTTS

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After looking around for quite awhile, it seems that there is no way to have multiple album covers (eg. Album Cover and Album Cover (back) ) display at the same time by default. You can right click on a cover to change it to another image, but I cannot have two album covers in a panel, with one being the front and the other being the back, and if I do set the one to display the back, it will revert to image 1 when the song changes. There should be an easy way to A. display multiple album covers at once, and B. set one or more of them to different images and have them stay that way even when changing songs.

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Hi, welcome to the forum.
Probably not exactly what you want, but on the Track Information panel (labelled 'Details' on the right-sidebar),
you can right-click on the artwork and enable image rotation to have it cycle through all the album covers.

Edit:
There should be an easy way to:
A. display multiple album covers at once, and
B. set one or more of them to different images and have them stay that way even when changing songs.
For A, you would probably need to show us a mock-up of how this would look.
For B, you can open the Tag Editor and under the Artwork tab, set which picture is considered the "primary".
Last Edit: November 30, 2024, 06:41:41 AM by Mayibongwe
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MFFMCCTTS

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Hello Mayibongwe, thanks for the reply.

I've attached a couple of screenshots to better illustrate what I'm getting at. In my case, I'm looking to have both album and single covers present, although you could use this for multiple purposes.

https://imgur.com/a/9YQsfYM

In the first screenshot, I'm in theater mode. The main album art is displayed on the left, and the single art is in the panel to the right. Currently, there is no way to make the panel artwork change dynamically as the song changes. If I set it is the primary, it will also change the album art on the left. I think there should be a way to set the artwork in the panel to image 2 and have it stay as that when songs change.

In the second screenshot, two album artworks are shown at the same time in the side panel, one for the album art and one for the single art. Currently, this is not possible at all. Again, They would both change dynamically, with the first album art tracking image 1 and the second tracking image 2.

I hope this clarifies what I mean.

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+1 The second suggestion particularly would be nice to have and easy to implement I think: Add an option to display all artwork (in a column) in the track information sidebar.

The first suggestion feels a lot more niche, but it could be implemented by having Musicbee keep track of the number of the image that's currently being displayed (e.g. 2nd image out of 3 embedded images) and then display the image with the same index when switching tracks (e.g. if the next track has 2 or more images, show the 2nd one). Having it keep track of the picture type could be another option too.

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I hope this clarifies what I mean.
It does, thanks for elaborating. I have embedded your screenshots here to make it easier for anyone interested to have a look without leaving this post.

In the first screenshot, I'm in theater mode. The main album art is displayed on the left, and the single art is in the panel to the right.
Currently, there is no way to make the panel artwork change dynamically as the song changes. If I set it is the primary, it will also change the album art on the left.
I think there should be a way to set the artwork in the panel to image 2 and have it stay as that when songs change.


In the second screenshot, two album artworks are shown at the same time in the side panel, one for the album art and one for the single art.
Currently, this is not possible at all. Again, They would both change dynamically, with the first album art tracking image 1 and the second tracking image 2.

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In the second screenshot, two album artworks are shown at the same time in the side panel, one for the album art and one for the single art.
Currently, this is not possible at all. Again, They would both change dynamically, with the first album art tracking image 1 and the second tracking image 2.


This would be a nice to have