Re: [Banshee-List] ID3 embedded album art support

[R A N J I T H <rranjith_2000 yahoo com>]

First of all thanks a ton for replying.

But there are some points I am not able to understand.
(i) Fetching album art from Internet - why do we
expect that every album under the sky would be present
in amazon or wikipedia or last.fm or musicbrainz?
These should be the last resorts.

(ii) why dont just search the:
  ID3 Tag for Embedded images first?
  if not found then File system for cover art
  still not found then, go to any website?

(iii) Isnt embedded cover arts cool?

I think the library mentioned by - Brian
Nickel(http://mail.gnome.org/archives/banshee-list/2006-August/msg00084.html)
would help in coding a better cover art functionality.

Here is what the current code is doing:

cover_art_file = track.CoverArtFileName;

And the cover art is not at all loaded from track's
tag.

I dont know C# to code..so I am looking forward to
someone releasing a better Tag handling.

Ipod-sharp does track tags syncing..thats coool

thanks to all!


--- Stephen Holmes <stephen onedotone com> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 01:31 -0400, Matt Philmon
> wrote:
> > Yes... look at the images on the main page if
> nothing else:
> > http://www.banshee-project.org/Main_Page 
> > 
> 
> Snorp's patch for cover art was integrated with HEAD
> some time back and
> it does work very well for most albums (some albums
> are without though).
> It doesn't handle coverart for podcasts, but I
> that's due to musicbrainz
> rather than the libraries ability to support it.  
> 
> 
> 
> > Now, in a little more detail:
> > 1) If you're building from cvs, do you have
> libmusicbrainz and it's
> > development package installed? For Ubuntu this
> would be
> > libmusicbrainz4c2a and libmusicbrainz4-dev. That
> will make sure
> > Banshee is built for getting data from
> www.musicbrainz.com (and thus
> > downloading cover art if you don't already have
> it). 
> > 2) Next... Does banshee support album art stored
> on my iPod? Well...
> > I'd answer this out-right except my iPod's at the
> office at the moment
> > (I don't currently use the iPod support in
> Banshee)... but I'll hazard
> > a guess at "yes" because ipod support comes from
> ipod-sharp:
> > http://www.snorp.net/log/ipod-sharp/ and
> ipod-sharp appears to have
> > somewhat recently had this supported added:
> >
>
http://www.snorp.net/log/2006/06/29/photos-and-cover-art-in-ipod-sharp/
> > 
> > Also, there's the Changelog from CVS:
> > 2006-07-06  Aaron Bockover  <aaron abock org>
> > 
> >     Patch from James Willcox 
> > 
> >     * configure.ac: Require ipod-sharp 0.6.0
> > 
> >     * src/Banshee.Base/TrackInfo.cs: Make
> cover_art_file protected 
> > 
> >     * src/Banshee.Dap/Ipod/DatabaseRebuilder.cs:
> >     * src/Banshee.Dap/Ipod/IpodDap.cs: 
> >     * src/Banshee.Dap/Ipod/IpodDapTrackInfo.cs:
> Updated to work with
> >     new ipod-sharp 0.6.0/SVN Track API and added
> cover art syncing
> > support
> > 
> > It only took me a moment to find this information
> myself. Make sure
> > you have "Show Cover Art" enabled under "View" and
> if you want Banshee
> > to try and fill in cover art from musicbrainz,
> make sure you enable
> > the plugin, Edit->Plugins. 
> > 
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
> > 
> > On 8/18/06, R A N J I T H <rranjith_2000 yahoo com
> > wrote:
> >         Am I being redundant? I had asked this
> question many
> >         times and tried searching through the mail
> list - no 
> >         answer.
> >         Does banshee support embedded album
> art(cover art)? I
> >         dont think so, atleast my CVS build does
> not show the
> >         album arts otherwise displayed by my iPod,
> amarok or
> >         even Muine.
> >         
> >         Thanks
> >         ranjith 
> > 
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