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Displaying album artwork
HomeDock HD can display album artwork for the currently playing track (if available) or while browsing by
album. Once displayed, the album artwork is cached in HomeDock HD’s memory for faster retrieval later.
see
Cataloging [pg.16]
. album artwork is displayed in several places throughout the user interface:
Whenever a selection is playing, the album artwork is
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displayed in the now Playing Banner near the bottom
of the screen.
When browsing by album, the album artwork for the
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currently selected album is shown (if available) as
well as the album artwork for the currently playing
song.
NOTE:
larger album art size may take a few
moments to download.
several screensavers have the ability to display the
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album artwork of the currently playing song.
album art and Your HomeDock HD
The maximum size of album art (if available) is as follows: 100 x 100 pixels from 2G iPod nano, 200
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x 200 pixels from 5G iPod with video, and 320 x 320 pixels from iPod touch, iPod classic and 3G iPod
nano.
It can take several seconds to load the artwork from your iPod. While the larger artwork is loading,
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HomeDock HD will display smaller art (if available).
NOTE:
You will see a “Please Wait” message
while the artwork is loading. HomeDock HD will be unresponsive if you attempt to use the remote
Control during this process. see
Cataloging [pg.16]
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HomeDock HD can hold up to 250 album art images. Once that limit is reached, HomeDock HD will
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delete the least-used image in order to store a new one.
If your current selection does not have any album art, or if the album art is unavailable, HomeDock
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HD will display one of seven placeholder images:
NOTE:
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The 4th Generation iPod does not currently support external display of album artwork.
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