the album cover is in a terrible place

[Goosegit11]

hello guys. saw some cool snippets in #20, but I have a problem with this one:

preview audio audio/* {{

audio() {
    ffmpegthumbnailer -i "$f" -s 256 -o "$cache_f" 2>/dev/null
}

if exists ffmpeg; then
    x="$(ffmpeg -hide_banner -i "$f" 2>&1)"
    printf '%s\n' "$x"
    y=$((y + $(printf '%s\n' "$x" | wc -l)))
fi

convert_and_show_image audio
}}

cover position is awful. and there's enough space for it under metadata, so I don't know why cover is not placed there. I drew the position where I want it to be (square with question mark inside it) also there's "At least one output file must be specified" in the end of metadata. maybe use ffprobe for metadata gathering?

[NikitaIvanovV]

What happens if you remove the if statement?

[Goosegit11]

then there's no metadata, and cover is too small imo

ideally cover should be on the top, and metadata should be under it.

[NikitaIvanovV]

What if you replace it with this?

if exists ffmpeg; then
    meta="$(ffmpeg -hide_banner -i "$f" 2>&1)"
    printf '%s\n' "$meta"
    y=$((y + $(printf '%s\n' "$meta" | wc -l)))
fi

[Goosegit11]

it works, but I would like the picture to be centered, and not so close to the metadata. in short, I need some padding.

there is also a problem, for some reason the two flac's covers have different sizes, although they use the same picture (?) - i attach a screenshot and links to both. first second

first flac: https://0x0.st/Hb8H.flac second flac: https://0x0.st/Hb8X.flac

[Goosegit11]

I don't think my files are the problem. Can you check them on your system? As I understand, they both use the same Cover.jpg file for cover

also take a look at this video: https://github.com/NikitaIvanovV/ctpv/assets/89806596/f7561597-2ad3-43c8-928b-811a9d1ba15d

[Goosegit11]

also what do if metadata is too big, where to place the cover? it's more of a UX issue

[Goosegit11]

what do if metadata is too big?

I think lf-scrollingpreview could help with that. You could place the cover image at the top and the metadata below. If the metadata is too long, you can just scroll down to see all of it. I haven't tested this setup myself though.

https://github.com/slavistan/lf-gadgets/tree/master/lf-scrollingpreview