HDX - Cover Art Uploading

Posted by: nocker on 27 April 2010

Does anyone know where to get hi resoution cover art from?
Posted on: 27 April 2010 by gone
I don't think you really need hi-res artwork for the HDX as it downscales anything to its own resolution anyway (seems to be about 250x250 pixels). I normally do a Google image search and choose the one I like before uploading it. Be careful of Amazon as some of their images have a white border added
Even if you choose superduper resolution, it will all look the same when it gets to the HDX display
Hope that helps
Cheers
John
Posted on: 27 April 2010 by nocker
quote:
Originally posted by Nero:
I don't think you really need hi-res artwork for the HDX as it downscales anything to its own resolution anyway (seems to be about 250x250 pixels). I normally do a Google image search and choose the one I like before uploading it. Be careful of Amazon as some of their images have a white border added
Even if you choose superduper resolution, it will all look the same when it gets to the HDX display
Hope that helps
Cheers
John

John the ones I have uploaded from google & amazon are blurred when viewed on the hdx front screen. Any ideas?
Posted on: 27 April 2010 by gone
Your eyesight is probably better than mine then Winker
I may be mistaken, but I don't think there's any image compression going on - most of what I upload looks fine on the iPhone app anyway.
If you are uploading cover art, you must have v1.5 firmware, so why don't you take a look at the AMG supplied (i.e. the automatically uploaded) artwork on the hard drive. That will give you some idea of the resolution. Does that look any worse than your 'home made' artwork?
After all that, you are only dealing with a PSP screen, so don't hope for the world

PS : how are you liking the HDX?
Posted on: 27 April 2010 by Harry
Same here, Amazon or Google. I haven't noticed any blurring. It's not exactly sooper dooper res on the telly but it's good enough and not out of focus. If a big file is used the chances are it will look quite poor when squashed because the HDX doesn't selectively bleed or interpolate.
Posted on: 29 April 2010 by nocker
quote:
Originally posted by Nero:
Your eyesight is probably better than mine then Winker
I may be mistaken, but I don't think there's any image compression going on - most of what I upload looks fine on the iPhone app anyway.
If you are uploading cover art, you must have v1.5 firmware, so why don't you take a look at the AMG supplied (i.e. the automatically uploaded) artwork on the hard drive. That will give you some idea of the resolution. Does that look any worse than your 'home made' artwork?
After all that, you are only dealing with a PSP screen, so don't hope for the world

PS : how are you liking the HDX?

Love it Nero! Only got into Naim 3 years ago with a nait5i & cd5i, mostly used to play ipod through the amp....then the hdx & wow, never looked back although bank balance suffers a little!!