Album art goes from large to small

[Merrill]

Has anyone experienced the album art going from full size to small. This has happened twice, I reboot and the art come back full size. Wonder what causes this to happen

 

[dsm363]

Has anyone experienced the album art going from full size to small. This has happened twice, I reboot and the art come back full size. Wonder what causes this to happen

I've noticed that as well. Very strange as it only happens on a few songs.

 

[jive_devil]

I've noticed that as well. Very strange as it only happens on a few songs.

I've noticed the switch periodically (from large to small and back again), sometimes even over the course of a day. It's minor enough I have not spent the time trying to recreate or source the problem.

 

[jerry33]

It happens all the time to me. It seems to get smaller each time the list of songs cycles through, both on the small and large display. Rebooting the large display fixes the problem on both screens until the songs cycle through again. Each cycle reduces the size. As far as I can tell, it happens on all songs with album art. About 50% of the songs have no art at all and 60-70% have either no text or only partial text.

 

[Merrill]

I wonder what causes this to happen.

 

[jerry33]

I wonder what causes this to happen.

Someone implemented a bad counter in a loop so it decrements the size every time.
The missing text is because some character sets aren't supported.

 

[Merrill]

Jerry33, please explain.

 

[jerry33]

Jerry33, please explain.

My guess is that the part that figures out the size of the artwork is in a loop rather than outside of it. The initial calculations takes the album art size and multiplies it by some calculated factor. Then when it's through one iteration of the loop, it uses the same factor to calculate a new size. So instead of looking like this:

$factor = CALCULATEsize($albumArtRef, $song); # Here the factor gets set at the beginning and doesn't change.

while($play = "on") {

PLAYandDISPLAY($songListRef{ $song }, $albumArtRef, $factor);

}

It's:

while($play = "on") {

$factor = CALCULATEsize($albumArtRef, $song); # Here the factor gets changed each time through the loop.
PLAYandDISPLAY($songListRef{ $song }, $albumArtRef, $factor);

}

Of course, the real code is much more complex, but the idea is there.

 

[hans]

My guess is that the part that figures out the size of the artwork is in a loop rather than outside of it. The initial calculations takes the album art size and multiplies it by some calculated factor. Then when it's through one iteration of the loop, it uses the same factor to calculate a new size. So instead of looking like this:

$factor = CALCULATEsize($albumArtRef, $song); # Here the factor gets set at the beginning and doesn't change.

while($play = "on") {

PLAYandDISPLAY($songListRef{ $song }, $albumArtRef, $factor);

}

It's:

while($play = "on") {

$factor = CALCULATEsize($albumArtRef, $song); # Here the factor gets changed each time through the loop.
PLAYandDISPLAY($songListRef{ $song }, $albumArtRef, $factor);

}

Of course, the real code is much more complex, but the idea is there.

So the problem is the display is written in Perl ;-)

 

[brianman]

So the problem is the display is written in Perl ;-)

Hah!

 

[Merrill]

This seems to happen after I charge the car, then the album art is small. I reboot and everything seems to be fine til the next charge, do not know how this would relate to one another.