Re: [PATCH] upnp: add support for thumbnails

[Guillaume Emont <gemont igalia com>]

On 20/01/2011 15:05, Jens Georg wrote:
> Let me clarify this a bit :)
>
> As for the availability of the icon, as I said in a previous post, rygel
> relies on the MediaArtStorageSpec
> (http://live.gnome.org/MediaArtStorageSpec), and rhythmbox is so kind to
> store its album art also according in that spec (other software doing
> this are banshee or tracker).
>
> Rygel doesn't do cover download, but with the MediaExport back-end it is
> able to extract embedded album art and put in that folder as well, so
> for those files it _should_ be available without rhythmbox helping (if
> not, file a bug, please). For the tracker back-end tracker does that
> job.
>
> As for the availability of the picture for single tracks only and not
> the whole album, that depends on how rhythmbox saves the image; judging
> from your description it seems that rhythmbox saves this as a track
> album-art and according to the spec we then have no chance of deducing
> the album from it. This is easy to check, the file name should start
> with "track-". If it doesn't start with track but with "album-" then
> please file a bug against rygel.
>
Sorry, I think I mixed things up. Once rhythmbox has played any file of
the album, the album art is put in .cache/media-art/. At that point,
album art is provided by rygel for all tracks of the album, and by
rhythmbox's upnp plugin only for the tracks that have been played by
rhythmbox.
>> Oh, and of course, the url provided by rhythmbox doesn't work, and the
>> one provided by rygel is a file://.
> It is offered to you as "file://" since you connect from localhost. If
> you connect on any other interface, you should get a http proxy url.
>
Oh, clever. I underestimated rygel, sorry

Guij