After some time passed I took it in my own hands and made animated image finder, which takes songs from the library and searches if there is spotify canvas for them. Could publish it if anyone wants.
If you go into Jellyfin and set animated picture manually for a specific song, it will appear in Symfonium with an animated cover art.
Also made a plugin for Jellyfin that automatically searches for animated .webp alongside the music item and overwrites Jellyfin’s database for that specific item. This way I just import a song to library on my server, put my cover art with the same name as the song’s filename alongside it, and song magically appears in Symfonium with animated cover art. This one is mainly created with Claude so I don’t want to credit all work to myself, but if anyone wants it I could send/publish it somewhere.
Thanks for the detailed guide, i was able to get it up and running quickly. I have a quick question, is there any way to keep the animated cover art as well as the normal jpeg image one? Like in the NPS it’ll show the animated cover art and while scrolling through the songs list it’ll show the normal jpeg one.
Alright, I’ll try to experiment around it too and let you know how it goes. For now, I’ve tried adding the animated webp as front cover and the normal jpeg one as back cover but that doesn’t seem to work. Again, thanks for your help.
Im trying to understand why exactly do you need multiple covers? I understand if you want both filetypes, in case you move to a system that doesnt accept webp anymore. But, otherwise having a webp as preference to show from provider, can show moving art on album and now playing screen, and, static on lists etc.
I recently used this tool which auto downloaded available animated artwork for my entire library. It does so by querying Apple API and then converting the .mp4 to .webp. It worked a charm for me.
Greetings, Do you happen to know how I can implement this animated image, either in “MP4” or “WebP” format, into the song tags or embed it so Symfonium displays them? I don’t use servers, only local media files.