Album Art

[carisj]

Hey Guys

I am currently running the latest kosh build on my h340 and I was wondering if someone could please explain to me how I would go about putting album art on it. For example what .wps files I would need to get and the steps for putting album art on there.

Thankyou

Any Replies are Greatly Appreciated

[Chepakishui]

Look here

Basically this is the format:

%Cl|(x coordinate)|(y coordinate)|(x allignment)(x resize)(x size)|(y allignment)(y resize)(y size)

I guess you probalby know what coordinates are so I will skip those.

(x allignment) is replaced by either 'l' for left, 'c' for center, or 'r' for right (do NOT include the quotes or parenthesis)

(y allignment) is replaced by either 't' for top, 'c' for center, or 'b' for bottom (again NO quotes or parenthesis)

(x resize) and (y resize) are to be replaced with 'd' for decrease size, 'i' for increase size, or 's' for a combination of both (if the pic is smaller size increases and if it is bigger size decreases).

(x size) and (y size) are just the size you want your album art to be.

For example: if you want album art at (123,32) alligned center both ways and increases or dereases the size to make it 100 by 100 pixels then use the following line of code:

%Cl|123|32|cs100|cs1 00|

You must also include a %C tag on it's own line in the wps somewhere. %Cl loads the image and %C displays it.

EDIT: Woops! I just noticed that it says to ignore stuff about resizing the images as this is no longer possible...

EDIT 2: Woops again I just reread the first post and now I see that this is not what you were looking for... If you want to add album art in a free space in your current WPS (Which is what I originally thought you were asking about) then do what I just said lol, otherwise get a recent WPS which supports album art (like jClix) and make sure that you have a build which supports the WPS (Norbusan's Multifont build if you use jClix) And then I can't help you anymore since I don't use album art myself so I don't know how to operate it.

[timread]

This thread is a good source for some newer WPS's that support album art. H3xx Rockbox 24bit Color WPS here. No Discussion (56K Warning)

It got trickier after rockbox altered how album art patches worked last year (I think) - some of the older WPS's no longer work.

I use Dimension Blue 6 (album art 75x75) which I find works well, and the latest KOSH build. Some of the WPS's also support 100x100 album art. Most of them are zipped with folder names so they unpack into the correct rockbox subdirectories (backdrops, themes, wps).

To summarise - save the album art file as a 75x75 pixel bitmap, with the filename cover.bmp in the directory of the album. This should work fine with the KOSH build. Some of the WPS's require you download fonts for them separately - normally this is stated by the WPS author.

hope this helps - there should be some more knowledgeable posters here shortly