Cover Art - File Locations

[Mike Ruger]

Well, this thing works pretty good. Thanks for all the hard work; looks like this forum is a bit stagnant. I thought I would relay my discoveries regarding the cover art.

The now-playing cover art (to be displayed on the MVP8400 TP) is easily obtained from the server:
Host: 192.168.1.2:9000 (where the slim server is running)
Path: music/current
File: cover.jpg&player=00:04:20:05:c2:a3
player = MAC address of player (if needed)
One can find a bunch more information on the cover art from:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37100&highlight=cover+art
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?AlbumArtwork

Thanks again,
Mike

[Jeff Coffler]

Yeah, the forum is a bit stagnant. People frequently ask questions via E-Mail or other forms.

What you're saying is correct (regarding the cover art). However, I'm not certain why you needed this. The module, if working properly, should have updated the URL of the cover art field so it would work properly when it needed to work.

This is necessary because the module may be controlling multiple players, and the players may be playing different songs at the same time. Thus, the module updates the cover art field on a per-player basis.

Additionally, when the module knows that a song has changed (depending on version you're running, the module either keeps track of that, or gets asynchronously notified by SlimServer), the module tells the panel to fetch the cover art again (since that might have changed if the album changed).

If you're not seeing this behavior, you likely messed up your panel definition. Take a look at the sample 8400 panel file and the panel file that you have, and see if you inadvertently changed the setup of the cover art field.

Hope this helps,

-- Jeff