[Goodies-dev] Audio thumbnailer

[Dirk Vanden Boer]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Dirk Vanden Boer <dirk.vdb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Erlend Davidson
> <E.R.M.Davidson at sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Dirk Vanden Boer wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have written an audio thumbnailer that generates a thumbnail based
>>> on embedded images in the id3v2 tag.
>> Cool - I didn't actually realise that was possible.  Do you know how
>> common it is?  A quick google and I see that only really Windows Media
>> Player does this by default.
>
> All the music downloaded from iTunes contains cover art, otherwise the
> ipod won't show a picture when playing the audio, but players like
> amarok, muine also support it, and I do it for all my music :-)
>
>>>  The thumbnailer is written in c++
>>> and consists of three sourcefiles, I think it's a bit overkill to
>>> create a seperate project for this like I did with ffmpegthumbnailer.
>>> So I was wondering if it can be included in the thunar-thumbnailers
>>> code archive?
>> Currently there is no binary code in Thunar-thumbnailers.  When I need
>> to write a binary to do something I have created (or used) an external
>> project - for example raw-thumbnailer (which is less than 100 lines of
>> code) and your ffmpegthumbnailer.  In a sense Thunar-thumbnailers is
>> just a set of rules for generating thumbnails.
> I understand, so it's probably better to just create an new project on
> google code.
>>
>> Can you post the thumbnailer to this list please?
>
> Attached is the file containing the modifications I made to
> thunar-thumbnailers. The configuration stuff isn't perfect yet (make
> install doesn't correctly install it yet I think, I had to do some
> manual tweaking) but it should allow you to build the thumbnailer.
> Dependencies are Taglib and Imagemagick.
>
> Regards,
> Dirk
>

I created a project page and created an initial release that can be found here:
http://audiothumbnailer.googlecode.com/files/audiothumbnailer-0.1.0.tar.gz

Greets,
Dirk