speeding up the display

[its-smee]

the screen had started to lag a bit when I dragged the slider on right.  After some checks i found a lot of my "cover" & "coversmall" images were huge. some as large as 2000x2000. After many hours of resizing the images down to 500x500 & 170x170 the results were amazing. so if you are starting to suffer from lag, check the size of your cover art 

[Barcrest]

This is the purpose of the coversmall images to speed up that display. I use 170x170 on a 1024 x 768 skin and they look great as well as giving a nice speed boost.

[kizer]

Yeah me too. I have mine set to 170x170 and my full size images I think I have them at 500x500 or something close.

[Novalak]

hours to resize???

i do a search on the root folder for *.jpg, highlight then all then right click -> resize ->advanced-> 500x500

The resize tool i use is a microsoft tool

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe


does it all in seconds...fantastic tool!

[Barcrest]

Does that overwrite the original image?

If so then is there and easy way to copy all the cover.jpg to coversmall.jpg then resize the coversmall.jpg.

I let freebox do it but you have to let the config have focus and not do anything because of how i am saving out the image. I really could do with a better method for saving out the JPG file i suppose. Would be nice to have a proper write up of this for the tutorial section.

[Novalak]

there is an option

tick to replace the original image or untick to create a new image

i only use it to get the folder.jpg (or cover.jpg, depends on what you call it) to 500x500

then i let freebox create the 170x170 images

[its-smee]

I am using Adobe Photshop to re-size the images. Once the 500 x 500 has been created I then use the function "Save for web" this reduces the file size and also gives the option of to replace the origonal if it exists

[Novalak]

i have over 5k albums, this would kill me lol

right click is the fastest way

[Barcrest]

i have over 5k albums, this would kill me lol

right click is the fastest way

Dude i have 140k of albums, I had no choice but to let freebox do it for me.