Re: [Banshee-List] Cover art suggestion

[rcasha <rcasha gmail com>]

I'm no legal expert either, but my understanding is that in this case Banshee is doing nothing different, copyright-wise, than your browser does when you perform the same action manually. Banshee would merely be providing a shortcut to the following sequence:

1. Construct the following URL: http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q="artist"+"song"
2. Fetch the results, and pick the first image that it returns, whatever it is.

3. Optionally prompt the user to select this image.

It's just a faster and more efficient way of doing this directly from within the program, as opposed to going to the browser, performing the search, saving the image and finally find the file you saved and selecting it in Banshee.

Ramon Casha

On 4 May 2011 13:20, Toki Tahmid [via Banshee Media Player] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Fact remains that Banshee would be fetching images without regard to copyrights. Well, I'm no expert, I can add no more.

On 4 May 2011 11:52, Ramon Casha <[hidden email]> wrote:

No, I don't believe so.

Banshee would merely be running a Google Images search for the album title + artist and fetching whichever result the search engine returns first. In fact it's not explicitly searching for cover art, as is the case on Amazon etc., it's doing the equivalent of "I'm feeling lucky". The website containing the image may or may not be licensed to do so, but Banshee is not selecting that website, it's selecting Google's first result, whichever it might be. In fact you could put this feature on the menu as "Use first Google Images result as cover art"


Ramon Casha

On 4 May 2011 09:17, Toki Tahmid <[hidden email]> wrote:

Copyright issues.

On 4 May 2011 09:59, rcasha <[hidden email]> wrote:

Apart from the listed sources, may I recommend that a search engine such as
Google Images is also used to get cover art? There are many instances where
Banshee doesn't find an album's art, but search engines will generally have
the cover art no matter how esoteric the album.

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