Album Cover Art Discrepencies

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 2:23 pm Post subject:

Even though the queue thumbnail, the Now Playing/Album Info album cover, and the Big Cover are all supposed to be the same, they still are 3 separate files - so occasionally they can be overlooked if/when we make changes to the covers.

As BQ said, for any future discrepancies you spot, please submit them via Make Corrections link. I will get the email immediately.

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 2:52 pm Post subject:

The reason for this is because we get the 500x500 jpeg images from many different sources.

Adding the Big Covers is a project that we started a little over a year ago. It is for all five of our stations. To say it's been a huge undertaking would be an understatement. Finding large, high quality jpeg images for over 4,100 albums has not been easy!

To get true consistency between the 40x40, 200x200, and 500x500 images, would mean they would have to come from one source; i.e., for JERIC or BQ to scan (and edit) every single album cover from their personal collection. The time this would take would be nearly impossible, especially since they are also doing the Big Covers for DFM and 80s.

We scour the internet for the highest quality images possible. Although you might think Amazon would be a good source for good album covers (and it is for newly-released albums), that is not necessarily true for older albums. Many simply do not meet our standard for high resolution or size. I have spent literally hundreds of hours over the past year searching out and editing several thousand of them (for SST) since these are additions to existing playlist databases. JERIC & BQ, and Saffron have as well for the other stations.

That said, I'm glad you have brought this to our attention. For any particular Big Cover images that you view as being way out of whack color-wise, please email me about it and I will do my best to fix it. Do that via the Make A Correction link on the Album Info page of the album.

Thanks for your input.

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 4:02 am Post subject:

Twopop, thank you for clarifying this. I've been wondering how you get all the album cover files (especially the larger ones). First I thought that they might be scanned but I quickly realized that that would be impossible for all albums (and on all stations). Still, it's a lot of work!
So, a big, big thank you to you, JERIC, BQ and Saffron for all your hard work on SST and other 24seven stations! I'm truly impressed with the dedication you show.