Album art quality [#19813]

[ByTor 03]

Hello. Hopefully an easy fix.

I have reluctantly moved on to MM 5 after YEARS of enjoying MM 4. However, as I move around and learn it's functionality, I am liking MM 5's new features and look.

So far am only having one issue. I have collected and maintained hi-def album art for all my albums and tracks. But have noticed my album art in MM 5 displays in "fuzzy" low quality.

Is there a fix / adjustment / view setting to correct this ?

Thank you in advance for any help or support.

[crawdad63]

Three things: Look for the album on this website
https://www.albumartexchange.com/

Look for the album on Discogs
https://www.discogs.com/

Buy a multi function printer and scan your own.

MM has always left a lot to be desired when it came to tagging album cover art.

[ByTor 03]

I do appreciate the suggestions. However, see below;

"Three things: Look for the album on this website https://www.albumartexchange.com/"
1. These are my album covers. Scanned on my have my own hi def capable scanner. Plus, don't care for the watermarks.

"Look for the album on Discogs https://www.discogs.com/"
2. No need. See # 1. Most on their website are not hi-def quality.

"Buy a multi function printer and scan your own."
3. Already own. See #1.

"MM has always left a lot to be desired when it came to tagging album cover art."
4. Actually, MM 4 displays my album art in hi-def no matter the size I choose.

Is it possible the album art source you have and are seeing could be low-def?

[Lowlander]

Where in MediaMonkey do you experience this? In the Filelistings Grid Views, Filelisting Playing Album Art/3D Album Art view, Preview window, the Properties > Artwork tab?

[ByTor 03]

It's low quality when viewed as "List (by album)".

However, when you look at the Properties artwork tag, you can actually see the image is much sharper than other image views. Also, I did notice when in a grid view, after adjusting the image size, it does display in high quality.

Guessing I'll just have to live with it not in high def in the view I prefer.

[Lowlander]

Do you have the Artwork showing much larger in the list by Album view than the Grid View?

[MiPi]

Thank you for reporting, you are right, inserted as: https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=19813

[ByTor 03]

"Do you have the Artwork showing much larger in the list by Album view than the Grid View?"

Much larger, no. But larger, yes.

[ByTor 03]

Thank you MiPi.

However, they show as resolved in Build 2800.

I am running the most current version.

[Lowlander]

That will be a future release. Beta testing for the next version of MMW5 has not started yet, but development has.

[crawdad63]

All you have to do to remove the watermark on the album art exchange is to register. It's free

[ByTor 03]

Lowlander - Thank you for clarifying.

crawdad63 - Understood. Will have to check it out. Thanks.

[ByTor 03]

Just curious.

Couldn't this fix have been included in the recent update?

[Lowlander]

No, it was minor update to add iOS17 support only (it just updates a plugin). However the fix has been in the MediaMonkey 5.1 betas for a while.