Re: [Muine] Album images

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

Hi,

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

Glad you like it, but Lee did the album cover stuff ;)

> 
> 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?

Hrm. Wouldn't it be a waste of space to store a cover image for every
song in album? Say, you got this nifty 20-track album, now each getting
this 60k cover image added to it. Now, when you have a huge collection,
this starts to add up .. 

A metadata store would be cool.. but ATM I don't see what other apps
would profit from it. Just rhythmbox, but blah, sharing data with other
music players is the least of my worries.


Jorn