Winamp 5.5 Beta Preview 3 (Build 1600)

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Originally posted by jmbattle
Pardon my ignorance, but I cannot think of a reason why this would be useful.

Is there a plugin or perhaps another program that utilizes Album Art arranged in this way?

Because some users would prefer NOT to have their file structure
dictated to them by their software/media player.

If a user is not willing to embed their Album Art images in their ID3 tags
(the drawbacks of this approach have been discussed previously)
then the only means the user has left to them to display Album Art,
given the current design, involves them saving their image files in a specific location along side their MP3 files (the naming convention determined by the means used).

I speculate that matbonucci is interested in saving his image files in one folder.
And his MP3 in another folder. I can empathize with that, I'd like to do the same.

You can use the "Watch Folders" preferences to tell Winamp where to look for MP3s. matbonucci just wants some similar options to use in telling Winamp where to locate Album Art.

But as DJ Egg has already stated:

Originally posted by DJ Egg
@matbonucci
Re: Album Art config etc
Please read the notes & known issues etc in the first post.

And I think what Egg wanted to point people to is:

Originally posted by DJ Egg
Winamp 5.5 Beta, Build 1600
-Album Art support is almost complete, but not quite...
-Lookup order: embedded (in tags),
%album%/cover/folder.jpg/gif/png, *.nfo file.
-Note: The cache is the art*.* files in the "Plugins\ml" folder
-(art.dat, art.idx, art60.dat/idx, art90.dat/idx, art120.dat/idx).
-Downloader access via: Art icon rt-click menu, unified file info & pmp edit info box
-Currently saves as %album&.jpg in the containing folder.
-See "Known Issues" section below for more...
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Known Bugs/Issues:
-Album Art retrieval criteria and writing/saving isn't configurable... yet!