Mini-covers

The Magnatune web site is making much greater use of CD cover art now.

When albums are listed in genres, their covers are also now displayed:

On the artist pages, instead of a text list of albums, you'll now see small versions of the covers, and clicking on the covers plays the album:

The downside is that it's a bit busy looking at times, and can make the really long pages slower to load.

However, I personally like the striking visual effect of all those covers, and it's another, perhaps interesting way to look at albums you might be interested in. Also, the images are all a standard size, and quite small to download, so it isn't too much slower.

I think it works especially well on the artist's pages, which used to look like this, which I thought undersold the albums on the page:

Comments

[Thorsten]

Hey John,

nice idea with the small album covers. Kudos.

It would work even better if you put some space between the [artist's name: music description] and the following album details like the cover thumbnail. In the current state it looks a little squashed there.

Keep up the good work.

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

Hey John,
could you use this time to also include a working reference to the artist art in the downloadable database? While I was looking at the data for the Magnatune plugin for GMPC I had to find that it is not useful at all in the current format.

Cheers!