Multiple Cover Art on same WPS screen possible?

[TexasRockbox]

Is is possible to display more than one cover art .bmp picture on the same WPS?  I don't see any reference to this topic in the online manuals, forum, and wiki.

For example, if I have an album with both front and back cover art in separate files, say, cover1.bmp & cover2.bmp is it possible to display each .bmp file separately on the same WPS screen?

Albums did use to have back cover art or in the case of gatefold LPs, sometimes a continuance of the album art.

If I had both front and back cover art for everything I could create a single .bmp file joining the two but I don't.  As an alternative  I could also create a single .bmp with both covers when needed and a centered album art with black (or whatever) sidebars when I don't.

Thanks!

[karashata]

Um, no.  It's not possible to display multiple cover art images.  The wiki doesn't say this explicitly, but it does explain (well enough, at least) how to use cover art with Rockbox.

The way cover art is managed in Rockbox, the appropriate image is pulled into memory along with the song it belongs to, and is displayed when that song is played.  The WPS code determines what size image is pulled in (in the case of multiple sizes of the same image, named appropriately), and if a specific size isn't found, it'll pull in the most appropriate image it can find based on the naming structure outlined on the wiki page.  It only loads one image with the %Cl tag in the WPS code, and displays that image with the %C tag.

What you'd have to do is combine the front and back cover art images into one and add black bars above and below (or just above or below, depending on your preference) so that the image was square (as far as I know, the WPS code only handles square images, but I may be wrong...), and resize it down to whatever the size the WPS you're using uses.

[jswetzen]

(as far as I know, the WPS code only handles square images, but I may be wrong...)

karashata: You are actually wrong, it is very possible to use other than square images, it's just that no one uses it .

TexasRockbox: Your best option would probably be to create a custom wps where you define the %Cl tag like this:

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%Cl|x-position|y-position|cWidth|cHeight|

The 'c' before width and height will center the albumart if the image is too small. The sidebars you were talking about could be a part of the background image.

[karashata]

Well, I suppose that's not really a surprise, but then again, why would anyone want to use album art that's anything other than square?

This might require testing...

[GodEater]

I think the OP outlined the reasons for wanting not square art work quite succinctly.

[karashata]

True, but in *most* cases...  Eh, either way it's nice to know album art doesn't *have* to be square.

[TexasRockbox]

Hello,

I already have a WPS that already incorporates album art so was looking to expand upon it a bit with front and back cover art (or whatever art I wish to accompany the primary art).

Cover art isn't always square as box sets, digipacks and double CD cases are not always square.  Distortion, cropping and matting would then be used.

Thank you for the replies and a good suggestion jswetsen.

Thanks again!

[DeanMurray]

I have some album art that isn't square. It displays fine.

Examples where the art isn't square could be a box set that comes in a different shaped package. I have some music which were live recordings and didn't have any CD Art, so I used an image of the event poster or just a picture of the artist.