As more albums get an animated cover variant (as seen natively on Tidal or from Spotify canvases) I think it’d be awesome if Symfonium could also display those like Navidrome does.
As of right now, the webp file is already being displayed but as a static image.
Having them actually animate only in large views (song playing or album opened) would of course be better to avoid visual noise when there’s a lot of small covers on screen.
Problem solved:
This does not solve an existing problem
Brought benefits:
Prettier album covers where available
Other application solutions:
Navidrome Web UI: The Navidrome interface already displays animated WebP covers since the format is natively supported by the img tag.
I’m curious. Do you store both a static version and an animated version or only the animated one? Embedded or as Cover.webp for example? And where do you source these? Personally I’d be hesitant to add them as I think many players don’t support them yet and some won’t ever (the dev of MusicBee for example said he won’t add support for them).
I uploaded the examples but I have no idea where the files went
(Including webp and the originally sourced mp4)
@655321 I store the animated variant as a separate cover.webp with a static folder.jpg alongside it and also a static variant embedded in the metadata (for the very compatibility issue you mentioned).
I personally don’t like using WebP due to filesize bloat and terrible compression but it was already supported by navidrome and it’s still better than GIF
I source these either from Tidal, which has official animated covers, or use cropped versions of Spotify canvases. Both being mp4 originally.
In fact, Tidal serves these as mp4 videos as seen on TIDAL
I just started using this awesome app. I really think this feature would make it so much better, as it would add that extra element which no other mobile apps of this type have (besides the subscription services like Apple music, etc)
This would change the game. Im already thinking of the custom arts I would make. I’ve actually never heard of Webp im assuming its an image version of webm. Definitely think this would be a very welcome addition. No idea if i could source official ones but id most definitely spend too much time making my own
Not sure if this will be helpful but ive just found that foobar supports this in a bit of a roundabout way.
Essentially this plugin or component can display “images” that are stored in the same path as a Given Track.
So people have taken “Album.mp4” & renamed it to “Album.gif”
the plugin then displays the video on loop (if available) or the standard embeded art. The downside to this is if you have different art on each track the only workaround is to have multiple folders each with video files whose extensions that have been altered.
So A Folder “Album X” & within “Album X” are Folders with the following names
D01 T01
D01 T02
(Etc…just as an example)
In each of those subfolders of “Album X” there’s an mp4 file thats been renamed to “Album X.gif” as well as the Track(s) you want that video to appear on
All the implementations of animated art seem to be outside of the physical files which i assume is bad news as google doesnt seem to like giving access to android devices in that way. I do still hope for some sort of implementation for animated covers in the future but this leaves me with a question
If users were able to figure out how to embed a video or gif as an album art how difficult (if even possible) would it be to support those file types in Symfonium?
Im already thinking of the custom arts I would make. I’ve actually never heard of Webp im assuming its an image version of webm. Definitely think this would be a very welcome addition. No idea if i could source official ones but id most definitely spend too much time making my own