Display cover art

[emueyes]

I'd really like to display the cover art for whatever track is being served by AssetUPnP. Is there any practical way to do this ? Ideally I'd like a front panel LCD on the Linux box I run Asset on.

Using a microcontroller would be ideal, and I know of USB - SPI chips which could communicate between the systems motherboard and a microcontroller.

Having looked at my music collection, there is about 3.7G of artwork (.jpg, .png) so storing it on an SD with the microcontroller isn't practical.

[dbfan]

Re: Display cover art

Sorry there is no way of doing this outside of UPnP, your front panel should be a UPnP control point, it can show playing art.

[emueyes]

Re: Display cover art

What about having the ucontroller listen for SSDP messages, and then looking up artwork based on that ? Then some careful parsing and waiting while a track has been playing for a while before downloading an image for it.

It's getting out of my league to make a control point front panel, and I've searched for one without success.