Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Album Art

[Guilherme Salgado <gsalgado gmail com>]

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:54:02 +0200, Fredrik Noring <noring nocrew org> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Here are two screen dumps of what Rhythmbox might look like with album
> art pictures:
> 
>    http://noring.nocrew.org/rhythmbox/
> 
> First image is pretty straight-forward. Front cover (and back cover
> etc., if available) of currently playing song is displayed at the top.
> Front covers, if available, are also displayed in the album list.
> 
> Second image shows the album list in a "compact mode".
> 
> Rhythmbox could easily fetch these pictures from the ID3-tag. Maybe its
> database would need to be extended with references to the songs that
> contain pictures and of what type?
> 

It's also possible to get the cover file information from desktop
entry files (http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/desktop-entry-spec).
I think the standard isn't exactly for this purpose, but may be used
this way. This is the way coverhunter
(http://coverhunter.sourceforge.net) and albumart
(http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/projects/albumart/) stores
information about the covers they download.

Guilherme Salgado