Possible bug with Album Art Sizing

[JulianL]

I'm evaluating dbPoweramp Reference v13 and after my first rip I think I've already pretty much decided to buy it but I have found what I'm pretty sure is a bug.

I like to store album art as a single folder.jpg and nothing in the tags. I also use my music on my Windows Mobile smartphone so I resize all my art down to 256 x 256 pixels. dbPA found the artwork for my test album perfectly and presented a 500 x 500 image. I edited the options for Metadata to specify "Resize Album Art Down to" as 256 pixels (was 500 pixels) and unticked the "Album Art" entry in the "Write ID Tags" section so I think I did everything right.

The end result was no album art in my tags (good) but the folder.jpg created on disk for my test album was 500 x 500. I went back into the metatags options to check that the 256 pixel setting had stuck (it had) so it looks to me as if dbPA is ignoring the pixel resizing setting for the folder.jpg copy of the artwork.

Can you please confirm whether this is a bug or me being an idiot. If it is a bug then I'm pretty new to your products and support policies so would I be safe in assuming that dot releases will come out at fairly regular intervals and that I won't have to wait 6 or 12 months for the next feature release to get a fix?

Thanks.

- Julian

[JulianL]

Re: Possible bug with Album Art Sizing

OK. Sorry about that. After ripping a second album I've just answered my own question and, unfortunately for me, the answer is that I'm an idiot.

The album art resizing is done at time of initial lookup/download of the metadata and since I changed the option after the download for the metadata on my first test album it was set at 500 pixels for the rest of the process.

It's not a bug but maybe as a suggestion for a future enhancement it might not be a bad idea at rip time to see if the current option setting is consistent with the size of the art downloaded and, if not, then resize it at that point.

- Julian