Cover art improvements
Recently version 2.17 of libmpdclient was released which adds support for binary responses, like for the ‘albumart’ command that was added to mpd a while ago. Using this new library version Rigelian can now read local cover art without requiring a http server on the player. There are still two major limitations with this approach: It only works with mpd version 0.20.10 and up. Many players are still on older versions. It requires that the artwork file is named cover.jpg or cover.png. Support for this will be in the next Rigelian version, along with some other improvements in the artwork […]