<![CDATA[album cover background art - the quality could be improved]]>I've configured Strawberry to use the album cover as a background image in the playlist view.

The only problem is that the quality of the image Strawberry displays is awful. Here's a screenshot of Strawberry displaying some embedded artwork:

strawberry_album_bgart_terrible_quality.png

Here's a screenshot of mpv playing the same file:

mpv_shrunken_art.png

mpv is displaying the image at a larger size than Strawberry is. And I had to shrink it; the embedded art is so large that my original screenshot exceeded the limit on file upload sizes.

Why is the image so degraded when Strawberry presents it as background art?

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/1448/album-cover-background-art-the-quality-could-be-improvedRSS for NodeSat, 16 May 2026 01:46:19 GMTSat, 02 Mar 2024 06:40:46 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to album cover background art - the quality could be improved on Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:45:08 GMT]]>It might be worth observing that where the embedded image is smaller, Strawberry seems to display a background image that is restricted by the size of the embedded image - but it isn't the embedded image, it's the Strawberry-backround-image version with lots of pixelation.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/3386https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/3386Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:45:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to album cover background art - the quality could be improved on Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:14:34 GMT]]>@jonas

Here's what ffprobe has to say:

Input #0, ogg, from '.\08 - Tír Na nÓg.opus':
  Duration: 00:03:08.75, start: 0.007500, bitrate: 255 kb/s
  Stream #0:0: Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp
    Metadata:
      TITLE           : Tír Na nÓg
      ORIGINALDATE    : 2015-10-23
      ALBUM           : Destiny
      album_artist    : Celtic Woman
      MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID: b48e1f40-e287-4d60-ba2f-18594397393f
      ISRC            : USUG11501506
      ARTIST          : Celtic Woman feat. Oonagh
      ARTISTS         : Celtic Woman;Oonagh
      track           : 8
  Stream #0:1: Video: png, rgb24(pc), 1080x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 1:1], 90k tbr, 90k tbn, 90k tbc (attached pic)
    Metadata:
      comment         : Cover (front)

There's only one embedded image. It displays correctly in context. I think it's just the background.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/3385https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/3385Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:14:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to album cover background art - the quality could be improved on Sat, 02 Mar 2024 23:48:10 GMT]]>@collapsinghrung

Maybe the file has multiple embedded covers, and it's picking the one with smallest resolution, is it showing like that in the context and the playing now popup too, or just the background?
What audio format is it?

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/3377https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/3377Sat, 02 Mar 2024 23:48:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to album cover background art - the quality could be improved on Sat, 02 Mar 2024 06:44:36 GMT]]>(Both image uploads yielded an "error" message, and what I assume was meant to be a link to the uploaded file came out as the text "error". I'll try again if someone knows how to upload a file.)

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/3372https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/3372Sat, 02 Mar 2024 06:44:36 GMT