Pictureflow Plugin - use folder.jpg and the foldernames instead of Albums

[excalibur]

It would be cool to be able to use folder.jpg instead of albumart and Foldernames instead of album names - if i have 30 albums from one artist i have thirty pictures in this plugin - one for each artist is more practical

i know that pictureflow is about albumart - but a setting for "music folder directory" would be very productive

[karashata]

I'm pretty sure that Pictureflow can use folder.jpg as the album art image (at least, as long as it follows the same valid album art sources as the WPS).

I'm not sure if it would be very easy to make it use folder names, though. Currently, Pictureflow relies on the database to operate since it uses it to find the Album names and track titles. You would need to do some serious rewriting to make it scan the folder structure and use the folder names and structure to organize and list the music on your player rather than the database.

[Chronon]

It should be possible to do this, but it must be considered what to do about people with obfuscated file trees.  Their files are not stored in directories according to album and artist, so a folder.jpg approach won't work for them.  Also, I'm sure some people won't want this behavior so it would have to be added as a setting, not hard-coded in.

[[Saint]]

It would be cool to be able to use folder.jpg instead of albumart

I must say that I'm more than slightly confused by this statement...
You are aware that "Folder.jpg" (or "folder.jpg", it's not case sensitive) is a valid source for album art, aren't you?

All my album art is named Folder.jpg and pictureflow works just fine for me.

In fact I find it to be the most convenient source, as (since I use WMP to manage my music library) all I have to do is 'drag & drop' albums straight from WMP's library as it (WMP) uses the same convention for the naming of its album art.
It also saves these images (Folder.jpg) in 200 by 200px, and since Rockbox can scale album art there is no need for fiddly conversion of hundreds of image files to get AA displayed correctly.

Everything you need to know about album art you can find here in the manual (I used Nano1g just because I had the link on hand and I use that target), and here in the Rockbox Wiki.


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[Chronon]

I believe that the OP wants  to have Pictureflow sort by artist instead of by album.  It would be good to get some clarification on this  point, though.

[excalibur]

i meant that pictureflow cant display folder.jpg if there is no album mentioned in the mp3-tag

[soap]

Not to be snarky, but it is "Album Art", not "Artist Art".   

I, personally, don't understand why you would not have your music tagged, but I am confused on what exactly you have on this point:

In the first post you state "if i have 30 albums from one artist i have thirty pictures in this plugin - one for each artist is more practical" - implying to me that you do have album tags written, then you say "i meant that pictureflow cant display folder.jpg if there is no album mentioned in the mp3-tag", implying you don't.

Are you saying, though, that if you have a folder.jpg file in the same folder as a collection of mp3s w/o and album tag that pictureflow won't use the folder.jpg?  I haven't tried it, but as I understand the situation it should.