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🎵 Lightweight, elegant music player for Android 9+.
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[Feature Request] Automatically generated playlist covers #310

Open Currrupted opened 8 months ago

Currrupted commented 8 months ago

Description

It was previously proposed (see #247 ) to implement the option to add a photo or cover to one's playlists. It would be great to allow Symphony to do that for you, by generating a picture. This could work, for example, by creating a collage of tracks (or albums) included in the playlist or by using unique pattern/artwork generators.

Solution

When editing a playlist and adding an image (as described in the issue mentioned), Symphony should show the option to generate a picture, next to just choosing a file. There, an user could choose between various methods.

Alternatives

An alternative would be to simply add instructions, so that users could compile their own artwork themselves.

Additional Context

The most common variant of this (from an user perspective) seems to be a compilation of music artwork of the music first added to the playlist. Tangentially, GitHub has been generating a simple profile picture randomly, upon registration.

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zyrouge commented 8 months ago

A collage seems like a great idea.

Currrupted commented 8 months ago

A collage seems like a great idea.

I agree! Sorry, I just saw that Symphony does in fact already use the song art of the first item of the playlist for its picture. I like this a lot! So this issue is mainly about a compilation/collage or other options an user could choose for generating the picture to a playlist.