Adding Artist Images to MusicIP Mixer
Ok, here’s a quick tip for the image obsessed (this one should work on Windows and Linux). In the cover art view, on the lower left corner, you see the cover for the current album - this works if you have either a single song selected, or all songs selected are from the same album, or you have an album selected. If you have songs from different albums selected, though, then you don’t get any artwork.
Instead, you’ll get one of several variations of the boring gray box, like the one over on the right.
But…
If you pass -artists on the command line, you can enable artwork for the case where all songs are by the same artist, or you have an artist selected. To do this, you’ll need to create a folder/directory, and then pass that as an argument to the -artists command. So it would look like this:
MusicIPMixer -artists c:\artists
Inside the c:\artists folder, create a subfolder for each artist you have images for. For example, you might make a
c:\artists\u2
folder, and put an image of U2 there. If you put more than one image in the folder, then a random one will be chosen each time it gets displayed. You can usually download artist images from their webpages, or do a Google Image search. To go quickly to the Wikipedia page for an artist, if they have one, you can select the artist and press Ctrl-W.
Here’s an example with several albums from They Might Be Giants selected. The image I’m using for my collection is a promotional one from the TMBG website. Isn’t that more interesting than a dull gray box?
You can learn about other command line options, on the Mixer help pages.