Starting with version 1.3.0.0 of Foobar2000 Copilot, album art is displayed on the 'Now Playing' screen if that art is available on your Foobar2000 Server.
This new app feature also requires installation of version v1.1.5 or greater of the foo_controlserver plug-in in Foobar2000 on your server PC.
See : foo_controlserver plug-in install
Album art (as well as media library search) support was added to that version of the plug-in.
For a playing song, if you do not see album art for it displayed on your Foobar2000 server PC, you will also not see it displayed in Foobar2000 Copilot. This is because Foobar2000 Copilot gets all its album art from your Foobar2000 server.
In the above figure, album art is displayed in Foobar2000 for the playing track on your PC, so is available to Foobar2000 Copilot on your phone - see below figure. If you don't see album art in Foobar2000 Copilot, first make sure your Foobar2000 server PC is displaying it.
Foobar2000 Album Art Settings:
Configure settings for album art directly in Foobar2000 on your server PC. There are two screens in Foobar2000 where album art options can be set : look under File>Preferences> Display and File>Preferences>Advanced>Album Art.
Foobar2000 File>Preferences>Display Album art Options
Foobar2000 File>Preferences>Advanced>Album art Options
Recommended Album Art Image Sizes:
You should try to limit your album art image sizes to be under 500K each -- which will give you ample image quality on your phone. Many 1000x1000 or 1500x1500 images can be much less than 500k in size and look very nice on your phone. Even 600x600 images will look good on your phone.
Going with super large image sizes of a few megabytes and say over 2k x 2k will just consume Wi-Fi bandwidth, memory and processing power. Foobar2000 Copilot performance will be affected, since it would be forced to waste cycles loading and then scaling large images so as to fit on the smaller album art area on your phone screen.
No cover Image:
If no album art is available on Foobar2000 for the playing track, the 'Now Playing' screen will show the default 'no cover' art image :
To change the default 'no cover' art displayed in Foobar2000 Copilot, see the album art section under the Preferences screen in the app. You will see the following. You can select an image off your phone by pressing the 'browse' button.
Pressing 'reset' will restore the Foobar2000 Copilot default image of the 'record', should you have changed the default and want it back.
There may be times, where you may want to ignore all album art from Foobar2000 and instead always display a favorite image of yours.
You can do this by after selecting your new image, checking the 'Fetch no cover art, use this image' checkbox.
So let's say you want to always see an image of your cat on the 'Now Playing' screen, ignoring all album art from Foobar2000.
On the Foobar2000 Copilot, 'preferences' page (see below), press 'browse' then select the image of your cat off your phone, then check the 'fetch no cover art, use this image' checkbox.
Until you change this setting, you will see an image of your cat displayed on the 'Now Playing' screen.
