Cover image ratio cropping

[Pierce1979]

some album covers i have and use are not square, but possibly wider or taller. yes, i'm unusual and awkward :)

currently these are just stretched/skewed and look quite ugly.

would be nice to have an option to specify cover image set by

• stretched
• using a best fit crop
• outfill image (transparency if possible?) in the preferences.

thanks

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[Pierce1979]

ok, this is irrelevant i guess. my images just tidied and show correctly after a close and reopen of rhythmbox lol

apologies

[asermax]

This probably haves to do with how the plugin that manages the covers handles the images. When a image is first added, the original image would be used, whilst the next time, a cached image is used (which is probably modified somehow?). Idk if it's much of a problem, but we might look at this issue to see if there's an easy workaround for this initial image ratio problem :F

[Pierce1979]

if its easy fixed then do it? :)

and actually, on further thought, some people might want the option to have their library displaying with best-fit cropped images instead of the current "outfill" method ... but i'm happy with it as is

[asermax]

The problem is that, if the issue is within the plugin that retrieves the covers, it's not in our power to modify it's behavior; all we could do is open a bug on the rhythmbox's bug tracker. Anyway, we'll give it a look when we can and keep you posted!