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Originally Posted by HappyTalk  Maybe a lot of the mp3's have embedded artwork or something, though 'use embedded artwork for thumbs' was set to off before import so still unsure why so many? |
That's a tradeoff to please the greatest share of users.
Just comment out line 2921 - 2936 in Database.cs to avoid creation of those album thumbs.
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Originally Posted by HappyTalk I would have thought a db field pointing to the thumb filename would ensure both Albums and Folder could use the same thumb |
Sure but DB lookup are much slower than .NET's file.exists() check... In addition SQLite is not really threadsafe and it would be a pain to "wait" for the thumb wouldn't it?
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Originally Posted by HappyTalk So would have thought Folder might contain thumbs named based on the path substituting dot for slash
e.g '...\thumbs\music\folder\d.mp3.a.air.moon safari.jpg' |
They are named based on the Path - just not using the full name but the CRC hash value of it.
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Originally Posted by HappyTalk For albums you would have to access the db anyway to know what albums there are. |
True - therefore I preferred duplicate thumbs of 4-40 KB over slowness. I did consider something similar for naming, too but that would have broken backward compatibility for users who already had good album thumbs for no gain.
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Originally Posted by HappyTalk One last thing is on a Hidef 1080i LCD is 300x300 (large thumb res) enough resolution when in filmstrip mode or does this just access the original jpg? I presume 300x300 is enough for the large icon view on such a hidef setup? |
Did you see the General options --> Thumbnails config section?
Currently Bav and me are considering to clean out and unify the used icon and image properties of listcontrols. In the end it will be similar like in MyPictures - large thumb for filmstrip and albumview only, the rest = small thumbs.
btw: the "standard" size of those thumbs for Windows is 64x64 which is really looking awful
