iTunes 9.1.1 and artwork
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From: Rowland McDonnell on 12 May 2010 17:50 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: [snip] > So it's not that. The Vincent is displayed at much less than optimum > resolution for some reason - quite unlike other artwork I've added using > the same method with iTunes 9 and MacOS X 10.6. [snip] Further close peering and experiments with differently-cropped versions of the Vincent original[1] tell me that my eyes are not as good as they used to be. Once upon a time, I couldn't have made this mistake. It seems that the problem is not so much that the Vincent shot is shown at lower res than the normal iTunes artwork, but that the particular image in question shows up the defects of the iTunes artwork display rather more. All those spokes, some at a shallow angle to the image raster; the lining on the tank; handlebar fittings; and similar light-on-dark features. It just happens to be an image that shows the defects more. I don't know what's going on, but none of the iTunes artwork images that I know started out high-res are displayed at the resolution of the image that's been put in - hard to make out, but there seems to be something of the old 72 dpi-ness about them. There's a way of making it worse, but there doesn't seem to be a way of making it as good as it ought to be. <shrug> I dunno. There's something not quite right about iTunes's artwork display, that's all. I'm pretty sure the metadata's `proper', and since the reason for using iTunes is the sounds not the pictures, I'll write this one off as `What the hell'. Maybe Apple will fix it one day; maybe not. And please, Peter, don't sneer at me (again) just because my standards and my eyes are better than yours. Rowland. [1] Make it square, I thought; why not? -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Peter Ceresole on 12 May 2010 18:14 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > This is different - it's a new problem And one I don't see here. Nothing to do with eyes. And I have always dragged and dropped, never used the clipboard. And never had trouble getting graphics into iTunes, although I never attached much importance to it. -- Peter
From: Peter Ceresole on 12 May 2010 18:14 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > All those spokes, some at a shallow angle to the image > raster; the lining on the tank; handlebar fittings; and similar > light-on-dark features. It just happens to be an image that shows the > defects more. None of those effects show up here. > And please, Peter, don't sneer at me (again) just because my standards > and my eyes are better than yours. I don't think that they are. -- Peter
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 12 May 2010 18:44 On Wed, 12 May 2010 19:54:16 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > >> Except, of course, that we have previously established that is not the >> case. We have established the need for file drag-drop since copy-paste >> often fails to provide a full-res image. > >You speak for yourself. In this case the copied image is of excellent >quality. Same here. After pasting into a track, the popup version is at exactly the same res as the original. >But I repeated it your way. Works perfectly in iTunes 9.1.1, just as >before. Looks very similar too. Yes, same here. Not just similar but identical. >So I still don't know what's going wrong except for your ongoing battle >with 10.6.3. There might be some issue with the size of the original picture - it is 2136x1188 pixels, and my browser (Firefox) by default scales it to fit in the browser window. That doesn't affect drag'n'drop, or copy'n'paste - either way, the full res image gets into iTunes. All browsers may not act the same. Cheers - Jaimie -- Women's breasts are like electric train sets. They're meant for kids, but usually it's the fathers who wind up playing with them.
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 12 May 2010 18:46
On Wed, 12 May 2010 23:44:52 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >There might be some issue with the size of the original picture - it >is 2136x1188 pixels, and my browser (Firefox) by default scales it to >fit in the browser window. > >That doesn't affect drag'n'drop, or copy'n'paste - either way, the >full res image gets into iTunes. All browsers may not act the same. Oh, also iTunes may scale the picture badly on display. I don't know, since 2136x1188 fits inside my enooormous 27" iMac screen so I don't see any scaling, but wouldn't on any other Mac without a 27/30" screen. Cheers - Jaimie -- "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this" -- Bertrand Russell |