Crop image instead of stretching - #1755

I don't think cropping the image is the right thing to do, because that then presents the problem of what portion of the image is kept, and it is impossible to always make the right choice.

It's always taking the center part of the image and croping the edges. I've seen this behavoir quite a lot in other implementations. Like when I'm using DSub the cover is used as background of the lockscreen. It's doing the same thing there.

I prefered this behavior, as it results in having all the covers looking equaly instead of having transparent spaces on two sides on some of the covers. I think usually the covers already should be almost square, so it shouldn't crop off too much and wouldn't even be noticable. But if you add some transparent space it's defenitly "sticks out" (not sure if this is the right term in english).

I disagree. In my library, I have lots of albums that come from DVD-Audio sources, and cover images from DVD cases are nowhere close to square. Applying your cropping method would chop off the entire title of the album and a significant portion of the image in many cases, making the cover look awful. The current method of stretching is vastly preferable to simple cropping because it maintains the full fidelity of the image, although at the cost of a distorted aspect ratio.

Just because "a lot" of other implementations did the easy-and-dumb method of simple cropping doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Ok I see, we need to have all three options and a setting to choose from these options to make everybody happy :-)

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