Rockbox Development > Feature Ideas

Save downscaled album art in database as cache

(1/4) > >>

Yakov5776:
Hey, the reason for this feature request is because every song I load takes a long time to load (5s-30s)
My proposal is to store a compressed version of the album art (e.g. 200x200) which is to be saved in the database so music with larger album arts won't take time to load anymore.

As of now, the only workarounds are either: (a) disabling album art covers or (b) downscaling/compressing album art manually using tools like mp3tag which is pretty tedious and requires A PC and modifying the original music file.

saratoga:
How big is your album art? Generally resizing is relatively quick.

Yakov5776:
My album sizes are 2000x2000, all my music use those dimensions.

Also, I'm not implying necessarily that the resizing aspect of it is what takes a long time (It could be loading the art into stream, parsing it, etc), All I'm saying is having this pre-resized in the database will guarantee performance for music with larger album arts that are anyways way above the resolution of the iPod screen.

saratoga:
If the album art is embedded you have to parse it anyway to get to the audio, so only savings would be the resizing. At 4MP should be pretty quick I think.

Is it slow with embedded or folder jpg?

Yakov5776:
Embedded

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page