Cover Art Mods

[Cladd]

I tried looking around to see if I could find this, but my searches are pulling up what I'm looking for. Is there a mod out there that allows you to view your entire library by album covers? I often find my music by remembering the first (or first few) letters of the artist name along with the album cover. This works out great in iTunes (which is a glorified music filing app for me these days), but Subsonic only gets me part of the way there.

[G_A]

Try hitting the Home icon up top, and browse using the filters there.

[trickydick]

I am loking into the same thing...somewhat. I'm currently working on a new subonic frame theme; where you won't have a left vertical navigation, but instead the navigation will be horizontal and replaced the main frame. It will look like this

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________________________________________________
|               top/player                     |
|______________________________________________|
|                                   |          |
|               nav/main            |          |
|                                   | playlist |
|                                   |          |
|                                   |          |
|                  chat             |          |
|___________________________________|__________|


The main nav will be have a horixontal alphabet running on the top while the middle will be all coverart that scroll left to right ot rigth to left with the simplisty of the mouse, or you can select the letter to scroll faster. then when you select the artist, the other coverart will move out of the way and the albums willl be listed, then when you select on the album, the main menu goes away and the playing album is in front while the other albums of the artist are behind floating in the background. The chat will be like facebooks chat system, running along the bottom. I haven't figured out which system or product to use for the navigation....Flash or silverlight or jquery

Links for ideas:
http://www.professorcloud.com/mainsite/carousel.htm
http://www.meadmiracle.com/SlidingGalleryDemo1.htm
http://www.shinedraw.com/3d-illusion/flash-vs-silverlight-3d-image-space/
http://www.flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/3dwall/pro_example1.html
http://www.flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/3dwall/example2.html
http://www.arrowchat.com/screenshots/
http://www.cometchat.com/?ref=ag

Issues:
Loading times. If you have a gallery type menu, you will have to load all the coverarts....or maybe just have then load as you scroll...i dunno

What do you think? Imposible? A couple of years in the making?

[trickydick]

Don't mind me....

I'm gonna use this thread to build on my ideas ....i'll be posting some links:

Facebook Chat scripts:
http://anantgarg.com/2009/05/13/gmail-facebook-style-jquery-chat/
http://gausarts.com/iblog/create-facebook-chat-panel-your-own-website