Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 10/02/14 16:04, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Hey,

Hi,

> > - Local-art plugin: the same, but this time it searches for the
> > thumbnail in the local disk. It implements (or tries to) the
> > MediaArtStorageSpec to fetch them. We discussed with Music team that it
> > would be a good idea to have a separated library to deal with this spec.
> > So probably this plugin could use libmediaart to fetch the coverart from
> > disk, and just get rid of our own custom code.
>
> That sounds great.

Indeed it does.

> > But we could have the inverse relation too: libmediaart could use Grilo
> > to fetch the thumbnails from webservices, and then download it and
> > stores in local disk following the spec. Grilo would only provide the
> > URL (using, for instance, lastfm or tmdb plugin) and libmediaart would
> > be in charge of saving the URL on disk.
>
> I would leave it up to applications to do the downloading (as they
> probably already do). The saving could be implemented calling
> grl_source_store_metadata() on the local-art plugin which would do the
> right thing.
>
> Want me to file bugs for those?

Please do, thanks Bastien!

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Martyn

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