Vista - Album art resoultion in Media Centre

Have just discovered Windows Media Centre - a fantastic media experience,
everything looking slick and hi-def on my shiny widescreen laptop...

So it seems a bit self-defeating that album art is displayed in lo-res, as
it looks terrible quite frankly.

When will Microsoft be correcting this gaping error?

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http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...pictures_video

..... yes indeed the album art that media center grabs is a lowly 200x200
res artwork and looks crap.

You can of course grab your own artwork as a jpg call it folder.jpg and
place it in the folder containing the tracks of an album.






"John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Have just discovered Windows Media Centre - a fantastic media experience,
> everything looking slick and hi-def on my shiny widescreen laptop...
>
> So it seems a bit self-defeating that album art is displayed in lo-res, as
> it looks terrible quite frankly.
>
> When will Microsoft be correcting this gaping error?
>
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> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...pictures_video

Thanks, didn't know that. However, most music I play on it is from CD's
playing in the drive, and my collection is 100's of CD's big!

It seems to me that wherever Media Centre is getting its information from
online should be looked at.

"Buellpilot" wrote:

> ..... yes indeed the album art that media center grabs is a lowly 200x200
> res artwork and looks crap.
>
> You can of course grab your own artwork as a jpg call it folder.jpg and
> place it in the folder containing the tracks of an album.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:973079BD-7D47-4729-8F36-544B908F7565@microsoft.com...
> > Have just discovered Windows Media Centre - a fantastic media experience,
> > everything looking slick and hi-def on my shiny widescreen laptop...
> >
> > So it seems a bit self-defeating that album art is displayed in lo-res, as
> > it looks terrible quite frankly.
> >
> > When will Microsoft be correcting this gaping error?
> >
> > ----------------
> > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
> > this
> > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> > click "I Agree" in the message pane.
> >
> > http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...pictures_video
>
>
>

Get with the times and rip all those CDs to MP3s

The question of the quality of artwork has been raised before and
apparently the 200x200 image is something to do with backward
compatibility with some older devices... so unless MS decide
to to draw a line in the sand and move on we may be stuck with
crappy artwork!





"John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4B723E00-90DD-4E4C-85C5-C344EDEA44BE@microsoft.com...
> Thanks, didn't know that. However, most music I play on it is from CD's
> playing in the drive, and my collection is 100's of CD's big!
>
> It seems to me that wherever Media Centre is getting its information from
> online should be looked at.
>
> "Buellpilot" wrote:
>
>> ..... yes indeed the album art that media center grabs is a lowly 200x200
>> res artwork and looks crap.
>>
>> You can of course grab your own artwork as a jpg call it folder.jpg and
>> place it in the folder containing the tracks of an album.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:973079BD-7D47-4729-8F36-544B908F7565@microsoft.com...
>> > Have just discovered Windows Media Centre - a fantastic media
>> > experience,
>> > everything looking slick and hi-def on my shiny widescreen laptop...
>> >
>> > So it seems a bit self-defeating that album art is displayed in lo-res,
>> > as
>> > it looks terrible quite frankly.
>> >
>> > When will Microsoft be correcting this gaping error?
>> >
>> > ----------------
>> > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
>> > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the
>> > "I
>> > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
>> > this
>> > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and
>> > then
>> > click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>> >
>> > http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...pictures_video
>>
>>
>>