Been using amarok for a while, so I use to have about 70 MB worth of cover art.  That (to me) was way to much space for the 300 or so album covers I have, so I converted them all to 500x500 (or close) jpg's using imagemagick and gimp.  Also I only set custom album covers now, trying to keep them in the 30k to 70k jpg range.  So cover art now only takes 12 MB of space.

I'm now discovering that when I set a custom cover art image, amarok 1.4.1 converts my 30k jpg into a 200k png.  Usually I just find the cover art filename, (ex 07c02199e4204ed4bc64136b5598b1fc), copy the 30k jpg to this location, empty the cover art cache directory, and all is fine.

But can I stop amarok for doing this?  Just keep the image I set, and stop converting it?

I don't really care about the space, but when I back up my home directory, and 3/4's of the backup is cover art for only 300 covers, then that to me is just ridiculuos.

cheers,

wonderone
 

*push*

I would also like to know, if it's possible to use the "native" jpg images from amazon instead of converted ones.