Image handling, CA preferences based on image size etc

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I’m constantly battling with CA images, mainly they’re way too large.
I’m thinking of making a Picard plugin or something (a local folder trigger handling this or something similar), but just wanted to ask first if there is already a solution to this?

My preferences are two fold; I have a local server (MiniDLNA) that has V0 MP3’s and limited disk space, where I like to resize CA to 2000x2000 px, save as JPG at 90%, which shrinks it down to 0,8-1,6 Mb on average.
I have a Navidrome/Subsonic server for quality streaming, that has FLAC and no such limitations for space.

So when I tag the MP3’s with Picard I’d love to handle the size for the images automatically when I save and it moves the files to destination folder.
Does something like this already exist?

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We’ll release Picard 3 soon (probably in September), and it includes a lot of new features to resize cover art:

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We already have released beta versions, if you want to give it a run: see Picard 3 beta 4

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Thanks! This does save me a lot of trouble.

I haven’t used the beta’s since I have big issues with them during the transition from Picard 1 to 2.
I was using linux, windows and OSX during that time, which didn’t make any of this any easier :smile:

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If you test, backup your config first (as explained in the blog post).
We are always interested by feedback about last beta.

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A handy way to test the new one is to use the Portable version. Then you can see how it all behaves literally side by side with v2.x.

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No problems so far, didn’t do a lot of testing as of yet, but will do more soon.
Image handling worked as expected!

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