Twonky Server 7 Web Interface Folder Thumbnails

[phibertron]

In relation to the web interface part of twonky server 7
I know there some things that arent possible due to what DLNA can or can not do
and that is compounded by what a DLNA client can or can not do

But one thing that comes up from time to time
is people asking to be able to disaply cover art for a folder

In 6.x and possibly earlier, when viewing music albums
the nav tree in the web interface would disaply a single image for an album
and the tracks themselves were links

The web interface had that ability, most dlna clients do not, which is ok
I figured I'd point that out, as to clarify what I am talking about

However...

The new look of twonky server 7 looks pretty nice
But I think it could be better

mytwonkyfolders.jpg (20.6 KiB) Viewed 519 times

For example, when an item has no cover art, it gets a generic one
Couldnt you either do that for this page
and or create some nice folder images for these folders?

and say if say one did have a folder.jpg in a folder
that the web interface would use that image, if we wanted to customize it further?

This is currently being done in 6.x for Music Albums
So I would "assume" that it is not a DLNA spec issue

[Twonky_Rick]

Thanks for reporting this. I'm passing it on.

- Rick

[Shockmaindave]

Rick, Phibertron,
If it helps, when these same files are viewed over the web the folder.jpg is displayed, and if there's no folder.jpg, a random jpg from within the folder is shown.

The proportions are a little skewed. It's stretched out horizontally so that it's square and pixelated.

Locally, there are grey boxes. No artwork shows up until an individual file is displayed.

It'd also be nice to have either an alphabet banner (displaying items starting with A-B-C- etc.) or a selectable number of items to display. (Are my Minutemen albums on page 11 or 14?)

Thanks--and I hope it's useful..
Dave

[phibertron]

Nice to know the web view works with folder.jpg

[twonky_ken]

Hi phibertron,
I spoke with the Product Manager for Twonky 7.0 and we are going to improve the thumbnails in the web browse pages. I don't have a date yet, but it is on our roadmap.
Ken

[phibertron]

Sounds Great

Thanks!