PictureFlow Plugin

Description

PictureFlow is a plugin that provides a nice visualization of the albums with their associated cover art.

It is based on code from http://code.google.com/p/pictureflow/, and uses the DataBase and AlbumArt features of Rockbox.

Requirements

• The maximum size for the bitmaps is the size of the screen (the same limit applies in the WPS).
• Images of size 100x100 are preferred. i.e. cover.100x100.bmp will be picked over cover.bmp
• The main buffer is used, which means unless the size of the playing tracks is small, you'll have to stop playback.
• The DataBase needs to be initialised in order to find the albums.

Known issues

• Display bug where some images have a reflection above.
• Smaller images break the illusion of sliding on a black reflective surface, as they are placed higher than the rest.
• The tracks aren't displayed in the correct order in the list.
• Quickly moving towards the opposite while the animation is running causes Pictureflow to jump back two covers instead of one (FS#8306)
• It is not yet possible to start playback from within PictureFlow.

Patches

• FS#8335: Album title config & small improvements

Screenshots

Pictureflow (r15909) on Ipod Video.

Pictureflow (r15909) on Ipod Nano 1G.

Pictureflow (r15909) on Ipod Nano 1G.

Pictureflow (r15941) on Ipod Nano 1G.

Pictureflow (Track listing) (r15941) on Ipod Nano 1G.

Pictureflow (r15946) on Sansa e200.