[Goodies-dev] Audio thumbnailer

[Jannis Pohlmann]

Am Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:45:52 +0200
schrieb "Dirk Vanden Boer" <dirk.vdb at gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Erlend Davidson
> <E.R.M.Davidson at sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Dirk Vanden Boer wrote:
> >>
> >> which let's you choose between different presets. The cdcase will
> >> be one of them. I already tried overlaying a music note, but the
> >> result wasn't really satisfactory, maybe I made the note too small
> >> but I didn't immediately recognize the files as audio files.
> >>
> >> Other ideas are always welcome.
> >>
> >
> > There should probably be the option to use an icon from the user's
> > theme - as that will probably be the most recognisable thing around
> > (they - presumably - chose it, after all).
> 
> Do you know of a way to get the current icon theme withouth dragging
> in any gui toolkit dependencies?
> 
> > Attached is another idea... the oscilloscope waveform of the audio
> > track. This would clearly indicate that this is a sound file, and
> > not a collection of music files.   It's difficult though!
> 
> I thiunk the problem of this approach will be performance and the fact
> that it doesn't give a visual relation to the specific audio file.
> Users won't recognize an audio file by looking at the waveform, so
> showing any random waveform would give the same result. The id3 images
> usually give some clue what the audio file will contain.

That's true. Waveforms are useless here. But I also have to say that
album covers aren't suited for the song files either. IMHO they do make
sense for album folders, but not for the files themselves.

If you ask me, then the whole audio thumbnail idea isn't worth the
hassle until there is some sort of folder thumbnail support.

  - Jannis
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