Option to display song jacket as background instead of normal background if found
Basic version of this will be in next release (>2.5.16)
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Nicholas NRG commented
Jackets are the square replacements to rectangular banners in new DDR interfaces, which look like iTunes Cover Flow. Most of the old banners are replaced by square versions of the song's background. They work better because the interface can now display many song graphics at once, making it easier to find music if you recognize the artwork and not the song name. They'd look nicer on BeatX than song banners because they make use of the extra screen space and look real nice and compact. I personally replace all my song banners with jackets by deleting the banner and removing the "-jacket" in the jacket's file name. It would be nice to have an option to display jackets instead of banners on song selection, but this idea I posted is because some songs have jackets, but not backgrounds.
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Nicholas NRG commented
Most simfiles nowadays (particularly DDR based simfiles like from Zenius-I-Vanisher, which are very authentic) come paired with an square image that works on themes that support jackets. StepMania detects them by looking for image files that end in "-jacket.PNG", just like it detects backgrounds by looking for images that end in "-BG.PNG"
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Somebody please explain what song jacket is.. is that the image that is included in the mp3 file??
Thanx anyone for more info on this.
M.