Re: [Banshee-List] Cover art

[Brian Nickel <brian nickel gmail com>]

TagLib#, the library used to read tags in banshee 0.11, supports pulling covers from tags. I've heard that support may be added in banshee by the next major release, but I don't know how high it is on the priority list.

Brian Nickel
TagLib#

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 18:39 -0800, R A N J I T H wrote:
> I had a very similar question earlier.
> Is there a plugin/library which will read the ID3 tag
> for cover art like iTunes or WMP or Amarok do?
> I am not good with .net/mono so I subscribed to this
> mailing list to see what goes on in that front.
> -thanks!
> --- Andrew Conkling <andrew conkling gmail com> wrote:
>
> > On 12/20/06, Mark Robinson <markcrobinson gmail com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I'm having an issue with cover art.  Not very many
> > of my albums actually
> > > seem to have it, and of the few that do, some of
> > them have distinctly
> > > different pictures than I would expect (foreign
> > import etc).  I have set the
> > > metadata plugin to cover art only, and have tried
> > rescan library.  Even more
> > > oddly, I ditched all music from the Banshee DB to
> > do some cleaning up, and
> > > when I re-imported, some covers are now missing,
> > and other albums have it
> > > when they didn't before!
> > 
> > Seriously, my opinion is that your best bet would be
> > to tag your music
> > with MusicBrainz when possible, and if not, save the
> > local files. IIRC
> > you can save the files as cover.[jpg,png,etc] in the
> > same directory
> > and they will be picked up; hopefully someone else
> > can confirm that.
> > But MusicBrainz takes care of mine. :)
> > 
> > Where's the metadata plugin get its data?
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