Album Art Resolution is Low in Now Playing

[DJretrojoe 0]

There is a problem with album art in music playback and I am hoping a developer can correct the problem.

All of my MP3 content has high-resolution album art of at least 1000 x 1000 pixels.  The art is embedded in the MP3 files and displays clearly in the music playback queue.  Please see attached photo:

01-Clear-High-Resolution-On-Queue-Screen.jpg

However, when the playback shows the "Current Playing Track" on-screen, the album art is terribly pixelated.  All of the hard work I did to embed clear album art isn't being reflected on Emby.  Please see attached photos:

02-Pixelated-On-Now-Playing-Screen.jpg

03-Pixelated-Close-Up.jpg

Would you please reply and let me know what can be done to display the album art clearly for a better user experience?

I love the Emby platform and want it to be PERFECT!  Thanks much!

[ebr 16169]

Thanks we can take a look.  @speechleswhat resolution are we requesting for that display?

 

[speechles 2055]

@ebrWe are loading them at the same size they come from in the row. Since when building the row is when the metadata is built and the URLs get generated to fetch images. But it is using the row to generate sizes for the images/textures. The texture for the image will load at the row image size.  But when we change image sizes to larger size for the Now Playing it is still using the smaller texture size to load into the larger image size because the URL is not changed. In order to load two different texture/image sizes and keep quality we need two unique URL used to fetch these. Look at PR #1241 and it has the fix for this issue. After this fix it will create a new image URL at a higher resolution to match the display size we use on the audio players faux screen saver aka "now playing" screen.

Edited March 26, 2024 by speechles

[DJretrojoe 0]

Thanks for the tip!!! Much appreciated!

[speechles 2055]

2 minutes ago, DJretrojoe said:

Thanks for the tip!!! Much appreciated!

We will have an update to fix this soon. Apologies we didn't fix it sooner.

[bjerne 20]

Seems still not fixed??

[DJretrojoe 0]

20 minutes ago, bjerne said:

Seems still not fixed??

I uninstalled and reinstalled Emby from my PC. It's working perfectly now. Thank you.

[bjerne 20]

Ok, well I installed Emby fairly recently and am on the latest version, so hopefully I don't need to reinstall just to get cover art displaying properly

[Luke 42077]

4 hours ago, bjerne said:

Ok, well I installed Emby fairly recently and am on the latest version, so hopefully I don't need to reinstall just to get cover art displaying properly

Hi @bjernecan you please show us an example of what you are referring to? Thanks !

[bjerne 20]

On 01/11/2024 at 04:20, Luke said:

Hi @bjernecan you please show us an example of what you are referring to? Thanks !

Hi @Luke

I'm referring to the the exact issue as described by the op

So I'm essence: album covers displayed in "now playing" screen are quite low res and thus look pixelated.

If need be, I can grab a screenshot when I get back home.

Edited November 3, 2024 by bjerne
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[ebr 16169]

Hi.  This actually depends on exactly how you play the music, correct?

if you hit play on an album, for instance, you should get full-res images there, no?

[bjerne 20]

1 hour ago, ebr said:

Hi.  This actually depends on exactly how you play the music, correct?

if you hit play on an album, for instance, you should get full-res images there, no?

This is exactly the way that I mostly play music, and nope, I do not get full res album art in this scenario. The image shown looks blurred/pixelated and it's clearly of very low resolution.

[bjerne 20]

Umm my bad, it seems my as blocker was playing tricks with me.

Sorry for the fuss

[Luke 42077]

8 hours ago, bjerne said:

Umm my bad, it seems my as blocker was playing tricks with me.

Sorry for the fuss

Are you saying your issues are resolved now?

[bjerne 20]

16 hours ago, Luke said:

Are you saying your issues are resolved now?

Yes, the problem went away when deactivating my adblocker.