[GH-ISSUE #234] Serve scaled down album art images #174

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opened 2026-02-26 02:32:21 +03:00 by kerem · 1 comment

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Originally created by @ronilaukkarinen on GitHub (Feb 15, 2016).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/koel/koel/issues/234

It seems very large album covers are fetched, it takes long time to download them in the overall view. Can they be scaled down by default?

Originally created by @ronilaukkarinen on GitHub (Feb 15, 2016). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/koel/koel/issues/234 It seems very large album covers are fetched, it takes long time to download them in the overall view. Can they be scaled down by default?

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@phanan commented on GitHub (Feb 15, 2016):

If you're talking about Last.fm-fetched images, they're all 300x300px, which is believed to be the best fit given the artist/album item element is 256px wide, so scaling down is not necessary. Now, the images can use some compression (for example, by saving the Last.fm PNG covers into JPG I managed to reduce up to 50% in file size), but I'm not sure if it's a good idea to implement the functionality because of several reasons:

Image manipulation can be complex and has its own set of requirements
More (trivial) functionalities = more overhead, complexity, and prone to bugs
I don't want Koel to be too tightly coupled with Last.fm, or any 3rd party in that sense.

Guess I'm going to hold this off for now. Thanks for the idea though.

@phanan commented on GitHub (Feb 15, 2016): If you're talking about Last.fm-fetched images, they're all 300x300px, which is believed to be the best fit given the artist/album item element is 256px wide, so scaling down is not necessary. Now, the images can use some compression (for example, by saving the Last.fm PNG covers into JPG I managed to reduce up to 50% in file size), but I'm not sure if it's a good idea to implement the functionality because of several reasons: - Image manipulation can be complex and has its own set of requirements - More (trivial) functionalities = more overhead, complexity, and prone to bugs - I don't want Koel to be too tightly coupled with Last.fm, or any 3rd party in that sense. Guess I'm going to hold this off for now. Thanks for the idea though.

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