Album cover art

[erho]

Re: Album cover art

I do not think they have fixed so far.

Thanks for confirming.

[Spoon-]

Re: Album cover art

I do not think they have fixed so far.

[erho]

Re: Album cover art

@Spoon can you now see differences with new Kazoo controlpoint, have they fixed it so far?

[erho]

Re: Album cover art

Spoon, after new Kazoo update nothing have changed, they have fixed their own Kazoo Server which now have highrez covers. Asset is the only server which still make problems and have the worst covers on my Mac Retina.

[ac16161]

Re: Album cover art

Just want to clarify, in case there is doubt, that the official release 5.1 of linux Asset does include the server-side size-disabling option. I'm using it. Has absolutely no negative impact on performance that I can see - thumbnails load pretty much instantly even on my old iPad 2.

[erho]

Re: Album cover art

We are let down by linn on this one, their bugs are making our software look bad, where as this option is very good when browsing art over the network as it speeds it up (when it works correctly).

The option has not been removed from the release version, it is only in the current beta Asset for Linux, Pi and OSX. This option does not exist on Windows.

Spoon, Asset is the best media server on the market so I will use it, must also use Plugplayer on my Mac, that is bothering me.

Perhaps you can force them to solve the problem, I also have written emails to them but officially it is under investigations......and this already for months!

[Spoon-]

Re: Album cover art

We are let down by linn on this one, their bugs are making our software look bad, where as this option is very good when browsing art over the network as it speeds it up (when it works correctly).

The option has not been removed from the release version, it is only in the current beta Asset for Linux, Pi and OSX. This option does not exist on Windows.

[erho]

Re: Album cover art

It is not possible to change Beta versions to normal version, only on full release.

Why have you cut off the option *disabling server-side art scaling* for the full release? Is it possible to get it that my paid Asset eventual and finally works? I do not understand it, as the other server options run flawlessly and have no issues with cover art. So if Linn must solve it as you said I guess they have no reason to do this, because with the other servers (Minim, Twonky) all is ok. But perhaps I do not understand it because I am not so good in English as I am a native German speaker. I find it really funny, that the free cost servers work. I thought that Asset will be the best as I already have dbpoweramp and bought it and have no chance to use it. Perhaps it will be better to forget about it. But I find it unfair that two so big companies can not help a consumer.

[Spoon-]

Re: Album cover art

It is not possible to change Beta versions to normal version, only on full release.

[erho]

Re: Album cover art

No it does not.

OK, but how could I change the 5.0.1b9 from trial to normal version?

[Spoon-]

Re: Album cover art

No it does not.

[erho]

Re: Album cover art

Spoon, as far as I know Version 5.1 do not have the option "disabling server-size art scaling" or I am wrong about that?

[erho]

Re: Album cover art

I helped out with testing of 5.1 due to low-res artwork via Linn control points when using Asset, but not with Minimserver. There is discussion in the Synology thread on this forum, but I am copying a post from Peter on the development team in case you have not seen it. It is important that you disable the *new* option for disabling server-side art scaling. It is confusing as there are now two options, but the feedback below explains how it all works. This completely fixed the problem for me. Note that the low-res art issue even happens with Linn's own Kazoo server, so Linn's control points mess this up even with their own server
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New beta posted. A bug causing album art resizing to fail has been fixed.

A bit of clarification-
Asset supports two kinds of album art resizing.
It presents all album artwork URLs with ?size=0 suffix, that way compatible clients (Linn) know that they can request specific size; if the client changes the suffix to ?size=N, Asset will attempt to serve the picture downscaled to NxN (but not if the picture is already not larger than NxN).
Additionally, you can configure Asset to serve album art at specific size unless asked otherwise by the client.

The new option disables both kinds of album art resizing entirely and will cause Asset to serve full size images only - and also stop giving the ?size=0 suffix so the client knows not to ask for resized pictures.
It makes sense if:
- Your server has a very slow CPU (older Raspberry Pi models, QNAP TS-109 and such)
- Your client does something undesirable (Linn)
- Troubleshooting other bugs (ac16161's case, now hopefully fixed).

Yes, have now tried Asset 5.0.1b9 on my QNAP TS-251+ and with disabling server-side art scaling it works!!!!!

So Spoon how can I change the beta to a normal version as I already bought Asset?

[ac16161]

Re: Album cover art

I helped out with testing of 5.1 due to low-res artwork via Linn control points when using Asset, but not with Minimserver. There is discussion in the Synology thread on this forum, but I am copying a post from Peter on the development team in case you have not seen it. It is important that you disable the *new* option for disabling server-side art scaling. It is confusing as there are now two options, but the feedback below explains how it all works. This completely fixed the problem for me. Note that the low-res art issue even happens with Linn's own Kazoo server, so Linn's control points mess this up even with their own server
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New beta posted. A bug causing album art resizing to fail has been fixed.

A bit of clarification-
Asset supports two kinds of album art resizing.
It presents all album artwork URLs with ?size=0 suffix, that way compatible clients (Linn) know that they can request specific size; if the client changes the suffix to ?size=N, Asset will attempt to serve the picture downscaled to NxN (but not if the picture is already not larger than NxN).
Additionally, you can configure Asset to serve album art at specific size unless asked otherwise by the client.

The new option disables both kinds of album art resizing entirely and will cause Asset to serve full size images only - and also stop giving the ?size=0 suffix so the client knows not to ask for resized pictures.
It makes sense if:
- Your server has a very slow CPU (older Raspberry Pi models, QNAP TS-109 and such)
- Your client does something undesirable (Linn)
- Troubleshooting other bugs (ac16161's case, now hopefully fixed).

[Spoon-]

Re: Album cover art

I do not. You can try the older Kinsky