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Artwork

On the web interface Sockso always tries to display artwork for albums and artists. These covers are usually fetched from Amazon so they just appear and you don't have to do a thing, but if you'd like to use your own artwork then you can do that as well. (The Amazon search can be wrong somtimes of course)

Using Your Own Artwork

If you want to give your own artwork just put the image files you want to use in the same directory as the tracks for that album, or in the parent directory for artists, and Sockso will pick them up to use. For artists call the file "artist" (jpg, png or gif), and for albums call it "album". (You can actually specify what these files should be called by using properties)

Watch Out For Caching!

Because fetching cover images from the net can be slow, Sockso caches these images in the $HOME/.sockso/covers directory. Once an image has been cached here, it will need to be deleted before it's asked for again.

By default, this caching is only done for artwork fetched from the net. If you want Sockso to cache your local cover images as well (this will improve performance if you need it) then set the property covers.cacheLocal to yes.

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10th April

Sockso 1.2.4 - Patches from Will to improve HTTP/HTTPS streaming performance, and HTML compliance, improved music tree in GUI to cope with any size collections, hidden files now ignored on indexing, and some other bugs.

8th February

Sockso 1.2.3 - Fixed broken 1.2.2 release.

7th February 2010

Sockso 1.2.2 (BROKEN) - Users can now change their passwords via the web interface, added property to disable checking for the latest version, new manual scheduler, and bug fixes for quotes in track names and amazon cover fetching.

30th December

Sockso 1.2.1 - New cron scheduling support for collection scanning, streaming improvement (by mrave), and added palm pre support.

26th September

Sockso 1.2 - New faster track indexing, AAC support (by mrave), CPU usage improvements, updated Dutch translation, lots of other fixes.

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