Turn off album metadata from cover image
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Loooong time user of "this" software on Linux, from Amarok 1.4, through Clementine. Just starting with Strawberry. Looks nice.
Right away I've got a (minor) problem I can't solve. In the bottom left corner of the display is the album cover art. Accompanying the cover art is the song title, album title, artist, as text. If the window is big enough, these appear under the cover image. But I normally keep my player shrunk to a certain size. In this case, that metadata text overwrites the cover image. Urgh. Awful! I want to turn the metadata OFF entirely (even when window is big, I don't need it).
But I cannot for the LIFE of me figure out where this setting is. I know I was able to do it in Clementine (though I don't have a working copy of that handy to check now).
I have a vague sense that in Clem it is found on the cover art's right-click context menu. Please tell me where to find this setting, and if it doesn't exist, you MUST include it in the next release! Thanks. -
Sorry, but I have gone back to Clementine. I got my old laptop working again, and then had Clementine available, where I didn't have it when I made the above post. Sure enough, Clem gives you the option to turn off the metadata display that accompanies the album cover art. I cannot imagine why Strawberry developers decided to take that existing option away from the user. All you had to do was leave it as-is. You would do your users a favor by bringing it back. Nuf said.
I'll miss the easier-to-use Queue in Strawberry, but it's a small price to pay, not to have my album cover art sullied by text overwriting it
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@deekinblooze
I'm guessing you refer to the playing widget, you can turn it off in settings / Behavior / Show playing widget. -
@jonas Thanks for the reply. Well... turning off the "playing widget" doesn't solve my problem, because although it makes the metadata go away, it also makes the cover art go away. What I want is to keep the art, but without the metadata. Now, they come and go together.
Let's talk about "playing widget". I don't see this in Clementine. I never noticed it in the Strawberry settings, probably because the meaning of it is unclear. In practical reality, this term seems to refer only to the display of the cover art (and its metadata). How is that a "widget"? To me, a widget is something with some functionality, not just a display. If this term was introduced in Strawberry, I really think it needs to be changed. It is not understandable, at least to average English speakers. Finally, is there any real purpose to turning off this widget/display? It's not replaced by anything else. Either the art is displayed, or it is not. I feel like this is an area where the UI of Strawberry could use some careful thinking-through.
