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Question about album cover and library

Asked by Mathias Burén

I don't know where to post feature requests so I'll make one here. Sorry!

I'm using Exaile 0.2.13. When I leftclick on the album art in the main window, I would like a popup with a full resolution of that image in a new window. Left clicking on the new window should close it. What do you think?

Also, to view my entire library, I press the collection tab, enter nothing in the search box and press enter. Then all my artists show up. Is there an easier way to browse the collection?

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Mathias Brodala (mathbr) said : 		#1

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Hi.

Mathias Burén, 14.07.2008 21:13:
> New question #39206 on Exaile:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/exaile/+question/39206
>
> I don't know where to post feature requests so I'll make one here.
> Sorry!

This is the right place since you’re not asking for new features but
about existing ones.

> I'm using Exaile 0.2.13. When I leftclick on the album art in the
> main window, I would like a popup with a full resolution of that
> image in a new window. Left clicking on the new window should close
> it. What do you think?

I think you should right click on the album cover art and select "View
Full Image". ;-)

> Also, to view my entire library, I press the collection tab, enter
> nothing in the search box and press enter. Then all my artists show
> up. Is there an easier way to browse the collection?

Set the collection view criteria (next to the refresh button) to
"Artist"? I don’t really get your question here.

Regards, Mathias

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Mathias Burén (mathias-buren) said : 		#2

Yes I know that you can rightclick the image. I'd like the option to just single(left) click it and it would pop up. Singleclick again and it would close. Would be much more convenient. I should not have to go through a menu to do such a simple task! It seems unintuitive, at least to me. But what do I know, I'm just a regular user.

About the collection, yeah I see what you mean now. It's just that immediatly after I added all my music, (after the scan was done), nothing was shown and I had to search for it to appear. But it works now.

But when I browse by Album (or by Artist for that matter), why doesn't mini images of the album cover appear next to the Album? The program has access to the downloaded images. Why not? Would look much better than just a CD icon. (IMO)

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reacocard (reacocard) said : 		#3

I'm against single-click activate (too easy to trigger accidentally), but double-click would be fine with me. File a feature request for it.

as for the album art in the collection panel, I know a patch to support that was applied at some point, but i dont recall whether that was in time for 0.2.13 or if it's in the 0.2.14 dev code. I'm almost certain it was disabled by default though, so see if you can find an option for it.

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