Can Minimserver Resize Album Art?

[AlexKornitzer]

(14-08-2017 19:56)simoncn Wrote:  

(14-08-2017 13:58)AlexKornitzer Wrote:  Thanks for looking into that. The BeoSound 5 is essentially windows xp embedded so I would assume that the control point and renderer are on the same box as it renders the image on its display.

A UPnP renderer isn't a device that renders artwork images. As I explained in an earlier post, it renders digital audio files into analogue audio signals. Does the Beosound 5 have analogue audio output connections for playing music into an amplifier or speakers? If not, it isn't a UPnP renderer.

Quote:Ah that would explain why them come through fuzzy, imo 160x160 is too low. It is annoying that they don't let you change it. I don't use it anyway as MinimServer is the only program that handles transcoding of my ALAC files correctly.

Yeah, synology don't let you make custom profiles which is another annoyance. I do still think that providing these caveated solutions can be beneficial if you understand the limitations.

Apologies for pushing this, it is just that this is the only thing preventing me from having the perfect streaming solution to my device. I would happily accepts the limitations in setting a 500x500 artwork profile for that device as I would never need the images to render any higher. But again I understand the issue with implementing so many bespoke solutions to handle vendors inconsistencies.

Could you maybe provide us a way to script this hack in or add an api to create custom plugins, etc?

Are you saying that the Beosound can handle 500x500 images? If so, why not convert all the images in your library to this resolution? I am not sure what you are trying to achieve.

The BeoSound 5 is the amplifier, the speakers are connected to it, it is also used to select and navigate the music library.

Yes it can, but I don't only stream my library to that device, I don't wish to reduce the image quality in my library to cater for just one device. I guess I would just like to be able to force the artwork size for devices that can't cope. These issues are why other servers provide 'compatibility' profiles, to handle the quirks.

I guess I am struggling to see why implementing this would be a problem, it would never break compliant devices as it would not be applied for them, it would only be applied to devices that it would fix the problem for.