Show the art of the disc itself with cdart.png (as in XBMC)

[marlonob]

Hello! First of all: Thank you for this software. It is amazing and it has been my default media player since I discover it. I have a suggestion tho. (And sorry for my english).

I use XBMC in my HTPC, and I LOVE that you can see a picture of the physical disc when playing a song. The picture sould be named "cdart.png" and has to be in the same folder than the file being played. You can see an example here (image founded in google): http://blog.r-w-x.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cdart-xbmc.png and the site http://fanart.tv/ has a very decent amount of them ready for download and has a API (in case you consider add automatic download) in http://fanart.tv/api-docs/music-api/ But I will be very happy to see support just for showing the image, for example, by making click on an icon below the artwork or have the option to see it in the player or in the playing now pannel.

I spent so much time adding a cdart.png to almost every album in my collection, and I will be very happy if this feature is added to MusicBee. Thank you again.

[psychoadept]

Hi!

MusicBee already supports fanart.tv for downloading album art (right click in an album art area and choose "Search Internet" or "Search Internet for Picture."  I think it only finds cover art, though.

However, since you seem to have yours downloaded already, it's fairly easy to configure MusicBee to show that art.  I'm not an expert at this, not having done it this way myself, but I *believe* you would do this:

1. Go into Preferences > Tags (1) (http://images.wikia.com/musicbee/images/8/85/Preferences_Tags_1.png)
2. Check "link to original picture" (and uncheck embed in file, if you don't want that behavior)
3. Open "set retrieval filter" dialog, uncheck most of them, but check *.* and move it to the top (provided cdart.png is the only artwork in the folder - otherwise I'm not sure how you would point to it specifically).  Click Rescan Artwork.

Hopefully someone else can confirm or offer better advice.

[mikebo]

As CDs are slowly becoming a thing of a past, i think it would be a waste of time to support this if it doesn't work already as scampbll described. Just my opinion.

[neFAST]

All kind of eye-candy is good to take. Would love to see that, maybe as a plugin+skin?

[marlonob]

Hi!

MusicBee already supports fanart.tv for downloading album art (right click in an album art area and choose "Search Internet" or "Search Internet for Picture."  I think it only finds cover art, though.

However, since you seem to have yours downloaded already, it's fairly easy to configure MusicBee to show that art.  I'm not an expert at this, not having done it this way myself, but I *believe* you would do this:

1. Go into Preferences > Tags (1) (http://images.wikia.com/musicbee/images/8/85/Preferences_Tags_1.png)
2. Check "link to original picture" (and uncheck embed in file, if you don't want that behavior)
3. Open "set retrieval filter" dialog, uncheck most of them, but check *.* and move it to the top (provided cdart.png is the only artwork in the folder - otherwise I'm not sure how you would point to it specifically).  Click Rescan Artwork.

Hopefully someone else can confirm or offer better advice.

Yes, I thought in go that way too; but that will imply that it will show the cdart instead of the albumart and not along with it. Besides, the spinning would be cool.

As CDs are slowly becoming a thing of a past, i think it would be a waste of time to support this if it doesn't work already as scampbll described. Just my opinion.

Well, that may be. But untill now, every album release is still getting a CD, and the CD art is one of the things I miss most from physical discs, and a significant part of the “album art” concept.

And I don't think that this would be a very time consuming task; neither for add it nor maintain it. But I might be wrong.