[mythtv-users] Automatically downloading album cover art

Andrew Wilson migmog at gmail.com
Fri Oct 13 13:29:46 UTC 2006


> What, like Windows Media Center? A scrollable 'page' of album covers
> can let you quickly jump to the album you want (provided you remember
> the cover of course) and can be much more intuitive (IME) than
> navigating multi-level directories, for many 'normal' users. Of
> course, when you have an organised hierarchical directory structure
> and hundreds of albums, it can be quicker to navigate through the FS
> directly to the folder.
>
> Perhaps the second folder-navigation approach could be like MythVideo
> (in that when you browse, any IMDB covers are displayed as you reach
> video files) so that when you navigate to an album folder/file, the
> appropriate album cover art is displayed?
>
> Nick

Hmm, I've never seen Windows Media Center, but I'm prepared to believe
that MS have plenty of UI specialists to make a good product.

How hard would it be to implement this in Myth?


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