Hello all.

As to the alternate cover suggestion previously posted, I would like to see an integration of the existing features as follows:

Selecting a custom image as a default background is great. But as the music changes, applicable covers should be allowed to override the custom background. As of the current version, it is either one or the other. Cover images as backgrounds are a wonderful feature, but then in the absence of a cover, you get a bare background when you should be able to get your selected custom image instead. If you select a custom image, you can't have covers as backgrounds when they are available.

IOW, the album cover background and custom image should work as an if...then...else not an either/or, with the album cover being able to become the background when available, and when not, your custom image displays as the default.

Would make it much more pleasant to look at, IMHO.

Thanks for listening!

Hello. I'm new to Strawberry, coming from the Windoze side of life and have been a devoted fan of Aimp for a very long time. But in making Linux Suse Leap my daily driver, I have begun auditioning Strawberry as a native player and I like it.

I do have a suggestion/request regarding covers. I would like to see an option whereby if a cover was not retrievable from playing a local file or streaming for example, an alternate image could be specified. Frankly, the default 'empty CD case' is rather unsightly. I have searched and if there is a way to do this, I cannot find it.

Thanks! Slew

Hello all.

As to the alternate cover suggestion previously posted, I would like to see an integration of the existing features as follows:

Selecting a custom image as a default background is great. But as the music changes, applicable covers should be allowed to override the custom background. As of the current version, it is either one or the other. Cover images as backgrounds are a wonderful feature, but then in the absence of a cover, you get a bare background when you should be able to get your selected custom image instead. If you select a custom image, you can't have covers as backgrounds when they are available.

IOW, the album cover background and custom image should work as an if...then...else not an either/or, with the album cover being able to become the background when available, and when not, your custom image displays as the default.

Would make it much more pleasant to look at, IMHO.

Thanks for listening!

@cherrystraw Exactly. In fact, radio stations that transmit data on the current stream get a search for a cover from online sources by Strawberry and often a cover will be shown. It is often not the correct one (different album or artist, depending on the tag data sent by the streamer), but a cover at least.

If I wanted to make my own compile I could replace the baked in cdcase.png with my own, but I do not want to get involved in that. I assume the developer group scouts this forum and will see the suggestion and hopefully find some value in it.

@cherrystraw Hello, and thanks for the note. So I do have my local music with album covers and Strawberry displays them just fine. But in the case where a cover is not found OR more to the point, a radio station stream where the MP3tag info isn't being passed or a cover cannot be found. At that point I would want to indicate a cover to use instead of the default image. Or, if the default image is stored on my local disk, I could just replace it.

I've not found the default image so probably hard coded?

If so, and no work around, the feature would be nice.

Hello. I'm new to Strawberry, coming from the Windoze side of life and have been a devoted fan of Aimp for a very long time. But in making Linux Suse Leap my daily driver, I have begun auditioning Strawberry as a native player and I like it.

I do have a suggestion/request regarding covers. I would like to see an option whereby if a cover was not retrievable from playing a local file or streaming for example, an alternate image could be specified. Frankly, the default 'empty CD case' is rather unsightly. I have searched and if there is a way to do this, I cannot find it.

Thanks! Slew