http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... =a#p160380

Bump eyes towards 'MonkeyFlow'

Click on the Library > Artist node and all your tracks should be shown with their album thumbnail if one of the Album Art views is enabled.

what am I missing - I only see the current one playing...

hottuner wrote:Fairly small icons and a scroll bar, easy does it.

Check out View > Show Album Art or View > Show Album Art with Details.

Hey guys an gal

this thread seems the most appropriate place for me to speak to my impressions and concerns as a fledgling user of MONKEY THE GREAT. I'm coming from WMP11, but surprise suprise I'm an audiophile. I may be the only audiophile using WMP in the history of computer audio When I switched from USB SPDIF converter HagUSB to Empirical Audio OffRamp 3 (so I could go "HighRes"), I experienced snap/crackle/pop-ville, not so good, and HDTracks (which has a great selection of hi-res downloads) recommend the MONKEY, and the MONKEY sounds GREAT. No pops and much better sound than WMP even playing lossless CD rips which are not "high res”. Now I can hear what hi-res audio is all about !

I am also a photographer and I will just mention also there is no serious file organizer program that does not lead with thumbnail overview. It is the fastest way to search large image databases. Fairly small icons and a scroll bar, easy does it. Text based organizers are nearly useless for this purpose, and I submit Media Monkey desperately needs a cover art thumbnail interface. Why? Because the Monkey has an opportunity to become the most popular 'high end’ media player for music collectors using WinTel boxes!! I haven't used CoverFlow, it looks great from a distance, but where’s the overview? WMP11 has a great simple icon overview quickly organized by album, artist, genre, and easy searches. It falls down on full art and liner notes, but for ease of use I recommend any developer who has not seen it to take a look.

Another issue (off topic to this thread, but since I'm here already) - when I first used the Monk I imported a sample WMA library and could see no immediately apparent way to make heads or tails. Ummmm - tha's a problem for me, and who knows how many other potential Monkey lovers

If my comments are uninformed my apologies. I am a newbie user, just out the blocks. Even if so the fact I may have missed the features I need speaks to user interface, so...

best of luck

EDIT: well I figured it out, what can I say, guess I was dumbed down by WMP!

Cover Flow would be an awesome feature for Media Monkey!!!

Well, this discussion has been there for ten months, and this was in the wishlist, so I can't believe who noticed it didn't spent a word about it, here.
Btw, no, I didn't notice it

Fraxav wrote:Hey, did anybody know about this?

It's been there for six months! I just can't believe you didn't notice it!!!

Hey, did anybody know about this?

Actually, I have a core duo too and less ram, but I have this idea: even if you got a duo, it can always suck. I have 1.66 GHz, maybe not much but hey this is a duo! And instead I have to pull down graphical options of not so new games cause I miss processor power (ram and video are ok).
But this was off topic. Just to say that it depends...
Back on topic: my covers are 600x600, around 1.00 Mb each and with good resolution. In both the two tipes of album art views, my scrolling is always fine except for the first time (it has to load the pictures). Anyways, the loading time of the first time is decent.
You see...your pics are 900x900 and if you have so many files the loading time increases. But if you experiece this also after the first full scroll, you got a problem.
MM is still in "testing", some things are to be done yet.
If you want to discuss more I'll be happy to try to help you, but please open a new topic maybe in the MM3 developing section (so I can also post there a problem I had while adding some covers to test my scrolling for you). This is the wishlist

Bye.

My pics are generally +- 900x900. There are already in the library.
It's slow also if there's only mm running. ( every new lines of images need a second to appear and the scrolling isn't smooth at all )
I use a core 2 duo processor with 2go of ram.

Is the albumart navigation smooth on your computer?

Oh sure, piclens seems really bright. As I said it could satisfy large libraries and coverflow fans with its zoom in/out features. But let's keep in mind that we need something that has to interact with playback, and not only show pictures in a sweet way.
So, Monkey Flow could merge CoverFlow, PrettyPictures and Piclens...

P.S. Drealau: maybe your pics are extremely great in resolution, or you are trying to view covers of songs not yet scanned (so not added in your library and therefore neither in the database) or maybe you are working with more programs at a time, slowing MM...

I kinda like more the pic lens approach than Coverflow.

An other thing ( and this may be off-topic ): How comes the album art views in MM3 are so slow even with a recent computer.
I mean that I cannot use it cause the images take a lot of time to load. I would find those views useful if the album arts displayed instantly.

Is it something that is for the next gen computers? Or does some programs have yet the ability to display lots of images instantly?

What are the limitations in this matter in Mediamonkey? How could it be improved?

Can someone drop some knowledge on this? Thanks

Nobody here is talking about copying CF. This new Monkey Flow is going to be something similar just because the functions are similar.
Piclens is actually really near to coverflow. It is just improved and works for photos and not for a media player. And it could be another good source of inspiration for the new cover flow of course, especially for the possibility to view several photos at a time, so huge library owners will be satisfied.
I'm not a developer so I couldn't say what's better for this program, but I can say that in my opinion a coverflow is sort of missing.
The more ideas, the more innovations for this new feature.

there's got to be a more innovative way to incorporate visualization and eye-candy into MM without compromising on large-library usability. My suggestion is that if the devs are thinking of this as a goal, they should innovate and think of a more appropriate solution.