Playlist Icons?

[deraile]

Hi, me again. I'm trying to figure how to give an icon to my playlists, but it seems there's no option to do that. Right now my playlists look like this:

I'm using the Rincewind theme. I could find a few threads on the internet where people had icons for 'collection playlists'. Are those different from regular playlists? I'm not sure how to even do those, unless it's an automation thing.
Ideally something like this would make most sense:

Or even just a button to browse for an image, either in the options to the left, or simply as an additional field in the Images panel to the right kinda like so:

An option for custom icons feels oddly missing from both the playlist and platform properties windows, since you can already edit so much within them. In any case I don't know how to use the icons I could find under
"...\LaunchBox\Images\Platform Icons\Playlists\".

Edit: Or better yet! An option to inherit the icon from its parent platform, since LB keeps track of that in the Parents tab. Sorry for turning this into a suggestion post, I'm assuming what I'm asking isn't possible atm from the get-go, so I'm making suggestions. Hopefully I'm mistaken.

Thank you for your guidance. And also merry xmas

Edit 2:
Welp, I guess I found a solution. It's not ideal, but it does what I want. I thought about doing that, but I gave up upon seeing the folder, I thought those were hard-coded categories.
Turns out all that has to happen is for the icon name to match the playlist name. It's not ideal, certainly not intuitive, but I'm also glad this method 'just works'.

I guess this one can be considered solved.

Credit for answer: From the Discord https://discord.com/channels/250718998482649089/250719145904177162/1127316241904836759

Edited December 26, 2023 by deraile
Edit 2, found answer

[damageinc86]

Yup, I was going to say, just name whatever icon you choose the same as the name you chose for the platform or playlist.  I had to do that for my platform "PC Games" because I don't have one called "Windows".

[Rams128]

On 12/26/2023 at 8:34 AM, damageinc86 said:

Yup, I was going to say, just name whatever icon you choose the same as the name you chose for the platform or playlist.  I had to do that for my platform "PC Games" because I don't have one called "Windows".

Not working for me, I've renamed the icon (24x23 PNG) to match the playlist name exactly and placed it in \LaunchBox\Images\Platform Icons\Playlists, but nothing changes. Tried under ‘category’ too, but no luck. Any advice?

[JoeViking245]

7 hours ago, Rams128 said:

Not working for me, I've renamed the icon (24x23 PNG) to match the playlist name exactly and placed it in \LaunchBox\Images\Platform Icons\Playlists, but nothing changes. Tried under ‘category’ too, but no luck. Any advice?

\LaunchBox\Images\Platform Icons\Playlists\[name_of_playlist].png is the correct location for playlist icons.   

Those images may need to be refreshed after adding them to have them appear.  Restarting LaunchBox (assuming you added them when LaunchBox was running) is one method.  You can also change the view you're in then switch back.  i.e. from Platform Categories to Platforms, then back to Platform Categories.  It's been a while since I added any, but I think you can also refresh them by pressing F5 (but don't hold me to that).

Note, adding customs icons feature is only available with LaunchBox Premium.

[Rams128]

7 hours ago, JoeViking245 said:

\LaunchBox\Images\Platform Icons\Playlists\[name_of_playlist].png is the correct location for playlist icons.   

Those images may need to be refreshed after adding them to have them appear.  Restarting LaunchBox (assuming you added them when LaunchBox was running) is one method.  You can also change the view you're in then switch back.  i.e. from Platform Categories to Platforms, then back to Platform Categories.  It's been a while since I added any, but I think you can also refresh them by pressing F5 (but don't hold me to that).

Note, adding customs icons feature is only available with LaunchBox Premium.

Thanks for your response. I’ve tried all the refreshing and restarting steps, no success. I’d like to replace the default platform icons with more accurate ones, like using the Sega Naomi logo instead of the standard arcade icon etc... If I understand correctly, is this only possible with LaunchBox Premium ?

Edited November 8 by Rams128

[JoeViking245]

10 minutes ago, Rams128 said:

If I understand correctly, is this only possible with LaunchBox Premium ?

That is correct.

[Rams128]

7 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

That is correct.

Thanks.