Letting The Album Cover Pick The Color
· by Kjell
Tonight I wired up a small feature that pulls the dominant color from the current artwork and uses it as the accent throughout the interface. It's quiet and subtle; you can switch it on in Appearance by picking the "Note" circle. When a earthy folk record is playing, the whole display goes warm and ochre. When it's something colder, like an electronic album, the UI follows along. I love it. Many times it pulled a color i liked so much i wanted to keep it. Maybe an idea for a future feature...
The less glamorous half of this release was an artwork caching bug. Load speeds had crept up over the last couple of days - I could feel the lag on big libraries - and it turned out I was invalidating a cache I shouldn't have been. One deleted line and everything snapped back. That's usually how these things go.