Album art size - Windows Media Player 12

Hi zebulebu,

Thank you for visiting Microsoft Windows 7 forum. as this is a by-design, there would be nothing much we can do from our end to make the album art stretch.

As stated earlier by Debleena S Microsoft Support, Moderator. You may customize the album art manually by adding a picture of your choice or matching an album in your Player Library.

If you want to suggest change in the design here is the link you can refer to:  Microsoft Connect - Product Feedback and Bug Reporting | Microsoft...

https://connect.microsoft.com/dashboard/info/?wa=wsignin1.0 

 

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Praseetha K, where exactly on Microsoft Connect can feedback for WMP be submitted? I can't seem to find WMP in the list of products there.

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Tim De Baets
http://www.bm-productions.tk

So - to summarise - I have to register again, on a different MS site, in order to provide feedback on a product that MS broke? Don't think I'll bother - though it is at least nice to finally get a tacit admission (albeit through gritted teeth) that this 'feature' was implemented 'by design' in WMP12. In any case, I've ditched WMP12 now and finally gone over to FooBar (something most of my friends did years ago). It's a PITA, because other than some niggly little problems, WMP has served me well over the years. Ah well.

Hi

I too like or should I say "liked" WMP but want my artwork displayed in my native 500x500px which is what I save as folder.jpg in the album's folder. However during playing its displayed or reduced to 200x200 which I hate as I'm streeming to my 48inch HDTV. I'd like it bigger as it used to be before.

I too tried to follow your link above and make a suggestion but it leads nowhere.

Please explain in details once again, How can I have WMP dispay my artwork in its native size 500x500

Thank you

I'd like it bigger as it used to be before.

You almost supplied the answer: before

Before=WMP11, if you pasted the album art manually, say a 500*500 or replaced the folder.jpg by a 500*500, it was displayed as such.

This has been changed in WMP12, everything is displayed in 240 max and probably folder.jpg is downsized as well.

A bit more detail:http://dalepreston.com/Blog/2009/08/laughable-album-art-craziness-in.html

You might consider alternatives like J River Media Center

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http://theWellTemperedComputer.com

See, now there's the problem. I don't WANT to use another media player. I'm using Foobar at the moment, and it is a PITA compared to WMP. In older versions of WMP, once I'd ditched all the stupid library management features by ommitting watched folders - aside from it's fist-gnawingly annoying insistence on switching to the Library view whenever I plugged a USB device in (MP3 player or not) - it worked fine for me. WMP12 - as well as having this absolutely bizarre insistence on resizing album art (no-one from MS has EVER posted a reason for that - on ANY of the various forums & blogs I've seen the question asked) also has other petty annoyances, which have made me switch away from it. It's a massive balls-up on MS's part.

zebulebu, have you tried the registry tweak at http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=75461 ? It won't make the album art that's displayed by WMP bigger, but it should prevent WMP from resizing existing album art (and from creating new album art images).

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Tim De Baets
http://www.bm-productions.tk

Thanks Tim - I'd actually seen that article before, and already have implemented the registry change shown there to stop WMP messing with my art - but I'm only really bothered by the stingy little size WMP resizes artwork to in the 'now playing' window, so obviously it won't help there. I think I'm giving up - I'm halfway between Foobar and WMP at the moment

I would like to know why Microsoft operates this way.

Seriously, I cant imagine it is really microsoft's intention to ____ off every single one of their customers with answers like this. It was "by design" to mess with our ID tags without our consent? It was "by design" that artwork will always be displayed at 200 x 200 despite the fact that all modern computers have massive resolutions now? really? Someone at Microsoft really thought this was all a great idea? How many requests have you received from users to do stealth edits on our MP3 tags or force us to display album artwork at 200 x 200? I would really like to know. 

It is irritating that I cant trust Microsoft to design their media players competently anymore. I guess like everyone else I will now be forced to use a 3rd party product. Its a shame, because if it were not for these irritating bugs (oh, excuse me, I forgot, they were "by design", so I guess there are no bugs) this would be an awesome media player. But every version that comes out seems to have fewer options than the one before. If I could permanently go back to WMP9 or 10, I would do it in a heartbeat. But Windows 7 wont let me. 

I agree with the other user though...the one good thing is that someone at Microsoft has actually admitted all this stuff, if grudgingly. At least we are being told our opinions dont matter now, instead of being completely ignored; I suppose that is progress.