Option to switch off album art or to prefer file over embedded

Large embedded album art can cause pauses during
playback or when skipping between tracks, especially
on older devices, but embedded art is currently loaded
even when separately stored smaller image files would be
available.

A workaround is to remove large album art from the
metadata of files.

This now adds a setting to either turn off loading of
album art completely, or to prefer loading the album art
from a separate image file and thus ignore the embedded
versions.

Change-Id: I22fb581abf56072e35e6c29d72e553747ec1a96a

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/manual/appendix/config_file_options.tex b/manual/appendix/config_file_options.tex
index b7e807baf4..09bc148535 100644
--- a/manual/appendix/config_file_options.tex
+++ b/manual/appendix/config_file_options.tex
@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@
     rewind duration on pause & 0 to 15  & s\\
     disable autoresume if phones not present & off, on & N/A\\
     Last.fm Logging & off, on           & N/A\\
+    \opt{albumart}{
+    album art
+                    & off, prefer embedded, prefer image file & N/A\\
+    }
     talk dir        & off, number, spell& N/A\\
     talk dir clip   & off, on           & N/A\\
     talk file       & off, number, spell& N/A\\
diff --git a/manual/configure_rockbox/playback_options.tex b/manual/configure_rockbox/playback_options.tex
index 6c8f5de316..2619125e5e 100644
--- a/manual/configure_rockbox/playback_options.tex
+++ b/manual/configure_rockbox/playback_options.tex
@@ -324,3 +324,11 @@ you to configure settings related to audio playback.
     your audio.  This is typically 44.1kHz.}
     \note{Opus files are always 48kHz.}
 }
+
+\opt{albumart}{
+  \section{Album Art}
+    Album art will not be loaded or displayed when set to \setting{Off}.
+    To prefer loading album art that is stored in a separate image file, set to
+    \setting{Prefer Image File}. The default behavior is to
+    \setting{Prefer Embedded} album art.
+}
\ No newline at end of file