[Muine] Album images

[Mark Phalan <phalanm o2 ie>]

Hi,

First of all I'd like to thank Jorn Baayen for this great music player!

I really like how album images are automatically downloaded from Amazon
web services. However, for a lot of my albums images aren't found. I
know that this is due to the fact that Amazon and I each name our albums
differently - its interesting to see that on amazon.co.uk and my album
names are much more similar.
Anyway, I was thinking that I'll just store the images along with my
Mp3s as ID3 tags. Would it be trivial for Muine to check the ID3 tag
first and if not found then get an image from amazon?
I also know that rhythmbox is adding album image support - I think it
would make a lot more sense if meta-data like this could be stored once.
It would be cool if sound-juicer used amazon's web-services to download
the album image and store it so that it could be used by other apps.
I don't know if the ID3 tag is the best place to store an album image
(have to store it for every song instead of every image) but where is
better? Maybe gnome should have a more generalized music meta-data
store, i.e. somewhere things like album images and audio folder
locations could be stored (at least until reiserfs4 is more mainstream).
Is there any work being done in this area?

Thanks,

Mark