Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox pre-release, and landing of generic audio player write support

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew conkling gmail com>]

On 2/6/07, James Livingston <doclivingston gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 14:54 -0500, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> > On 2/5/07, James Doc Livingston <doclivingston gmail com> wrote:
> > > * Many cover art improvements, including:
> > >         + support for art from URIs (podcasts etc)
> > >         + art in tray icon tooltip and notification bubble
> >
> > I'm still noticing that RB is not picking up on some of my cover art
> > for files tagged with MusicBrainz data. The same files show the cover
> > art correctly in Banshee. Should this be working in RB, or does it not
> > implement MBz lookups?
>
> Rhythmbox currently searches Amazon using the Artist and Album names,
> whereas banshee looks up the ASIN (Amazon id) via MusicBrainz - which
> gives different results.
>
> In general the method Banshee uses gives better results, so we should
> probably change to doing that too. It shouldn't be too hard (changing
> plugins/artdisplay/artdisplay/AmazonCoverArtSearch.py), but no-one has
> worked on it yet.

Ah, good. I may take a look at this and see what I can do. (It's been
a while since I've done some real Python work.) Thanks for the info!