Display cover art in collections panel

[Adam Olsen]

It would be nice if the collections panel displayed the cover art. See attached screenshot.

I've done a hack to achieve this, but it needs some work, as resizing the cover art can take time and should probably be done in a worker thread.

This ticket was migrated from the old trac: re #409

[Adam Olsen (arolsen)]

This ticket is a duplicate

[Salil (hellfeuer)]

Not sure where the duplicate is, so I'm posting here

Anyway here's my hack to achieve this. It does not load the cover art in a worker thread, since for me it hasn't taken very long. It does cache the pixbuf's however, so even if it takes a little time, it'll only be at startup

The covers would look much better if they were bigger, but then the width for the other rows (artist/track) also changes, and I don't know how to work around that.. So right now you have tiny covers

[Salil (hellfeuer)]

Couldn't find the duplicate

[Mathias Brodala (mathbr)]

I’m really liking this feature. Indeed, the covers are a bit small but having the cover art instead of a generic icon already makes finding albums quicker.

Does any dev object against putting this patch into main branch? I for myself would like to see it there.

[Adam Olsen (arolsen)]

Committed in 1626. I added a preference to enable it. It is disabled by default.

This was attempted in the past, but it was very slow for large libraries. It seems like your patch is quite a bit faster, though. For reference, here is the old bug and the old patches:

http://64.251.22.233/trac/ticket/409

The patches probably don't work anymore, so much has changed since that time, but it gives you an idea of what others were trying to do.