[REQ] Support WebP [#18493]

[xaphan]

Please add WebP support

[Peke]

Hi,
Can you please elaborate where you would like that we add WebP support?

[xaphan]

at the files meta tags. WebP (Google WebP Image) - Image file formats

[Peke]

Hi,
Not possible, some formats do not allow non standard image formats as Album Art.

[xaphan]

But some formats supported webp and besides MediaMonkey correctly extracts art only does not decode it. And besides, I am not asking to push webp into ID3

[Peke]

Hi,
It is too complicated to add partial support for some formats and not for others and what devices will support it.

Can you please supply what format supports/prefer WebP (I can't find any), app that adds it to the format and if possible device that you use and need WebP format?

[Peke]

Hi,
I see, you are right. Online services can take benefit of WebP, but from what I see WebP by design are not intended for Local storage and I have not found any device that use it for Album art, actually can make more issues than it helps.

More info at.
https://developers.google.com/speed/webp
https://blog.online-convert.com/why-is- ... pular-yet/

So for now if you show Images on WEB I woudl suggest switch to WebP, but for album art I would stick to JPG and it is easy to convert https://image.online-convert.com/convert/webp-to-jpg

[rusty]

Hi xaphan,

Thanks for the feedback. I personally use .webp even for local images (higher quality/less storage) so I'm with you.

I haven't really looked into what containers support webp (I see that ID3 doesn't). Have you already looked into this? OR are you suggesting a sort of feature in which MM would auto-convert .webp artwork to a format that is supported by the tag format?

I guess that some sort of hybrid functionality would be required--native .webp for supported container formats, and auto-conversion otherwise? But Peke's point is also valid, if a user's library had a bunch of .webp artwork, then it may not display correctly on various devices to which it's synced or streamed.

-Rusty