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Bug 539180 - Cover Art on "Now Playing" Screen
Cover Art on "Now Playing" Screen
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: banshee
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
1.0.0
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: 2.x
Assigned To: Banshee Maintainers
Banshee Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-06-19 20:11 UTC by Leon Handreke
Modified: 2008-08-13 17:53 UTC
See Also:
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Description Leon Handreke 2008-06-19 20:11:49 UTC 
It may be a good idea to display the cover art of the currently playing song on the "Now Playing" screen that currently displays a banshee logo. 

This would be especially useful when you have a party and don't want to have a laptop with a banshee logo but rather one with some album art standing around.

Maybe even a nice reflection or shadow or something would be possible, as long as it is not an animation and influences the performance of the computer.
Comment 1 Kevin Duffus 2008-06-20 21:01:26 UTC 
I second this enhancement request
Comment 2 Sebastian 2008-06-25 09:20:13 UTC 
I would like to have this feature too. Right now the now playing window is pretty useless.
Comment 3 Leon Handreke 2008-06-25 11:41:01 UTC 
Well, it is usefull for playing video, but it could be even more useful with that new feature. 
BTW, is it normal I can't manually reorder my playlists?
Comment 4 Kevin Duffus 2008-07-03 22:15:23 UTC 
Leon, the manual sorting is being worked on in svn trunk. Please, lets end this discussion here and keep the bug report on topic.
Comment 5 Oscar RdG 2008-08-02 14:22:14 UTC 
I second this enhancement request too.
"Now playing" is the perfect place to display some covert art, and current song information in a pretty way (i am not meaning a typical music animation).

It would be perfect to be used on a party, as Leon says...
Comment 6 Gabriel Burt 2008-08-05 23:45:35 UTC 
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
Comment 7 Alexander Hunziker 2008-08-13 17:53:06 UTC 
If a CD cover image is larger than the "now playing" area, it should be downscaled, but in the current implementation it's not.