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Re: [Tracker] MB Metadata not indexed?



On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
<mikkel kamstrup gmail com> wrote:
> On 14/02/2008, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
>  >
>  >  On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 22:18 +0100, Piotr Gaczkowski wrote:
>  >  > Hi!
>  >  >
>  >  > I wanted to  cook up a tiny script using Tracker and MusicBrainz that
>  >  > would list only tracks, which are covers. However Tracker doesn't seem
>  >  > to have the MusicBrainz metadata, like Audio:MBTrackID.
>  >  >
>  >  > Why is so?
>  >  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > we would like to get coverart, lyrics and musicbrainz stuff for all
>  >  music files in a future version of tracker.
>  >
>  >  Because of online latency we need to be careful that indexing is not
>  >  held up when fetching data from the internet so I need to thoink about
>  >  how to do it smartly (probably in a separate thread)
>
>  Is it even legal to cache these covers. I don't think it is...

IIRC in Amarok they used to cache the covers from amazon.co.uk
but for a limited time, after which they would have to be deleted
(just to be re-fetched again by the user).

    Marko


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