Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] recognition of CD/DVD's w/ cover art

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 02:08:20PM -0500, johan kdks wrote:
> My friend has a Linux PC and when he inserts a CD or DVD, it popups up the cover art automatically and displays all sorts of extended data, like the actors in the film, the studio that released the cd, etc.  And we tried 100 or so discs and it recognized every one perfectly, just as good as Windows XP Media Center does, and it even seems to cache the entries since the 2nd time you insert the disc the recognition is instant (first time takes a few seconds).  None of the other Linux media players I've used do this--they all use freedb which doesn't work for DVD's, doesn't have extended attributes, and doesn't display any cover art.
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> Since this is way better than freedb, and it's Linux-based, and it's open source, I figured all the other Linux media players could use the same code to do this too.  But today I think I've tried 100 media players/rippers, etc., and I've posted messages everywhere, and I keep getting told to "try something or other", but in the end it's the same thing--it uses freedb.  I tried Juk for KDE, and RhythmBox for Gnome, but also no luck.
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> The open source project my friend uses is plutohome.org.  But I can't use it because it's a big home automation and media server that does all sorts of stuff.  All I'm looking for is just the 1 tiny piece--the accurate CD + DVD recognition engine that shows cover art and all the attributes for a disc.  Preferably integrated into the KDE or Gnome desktop, like Windows does, so you always see what's now playing.  Anybody know if there's a module that does this?  Or if not, why nobody else is doing this for Linux?

Check out what the musicbrainz project (webserver) does for this.  They
figure out the artist/album, and then grab the cover art from amazon,
having figured out the magic to get to the appropriate image.   The
Musicbrainz system already has the track recognition based on a
fingerprint and not relying on id3 tags, (which IIRC is already linked
into RB, not sure if it's used yet or not), and it has code to link into
amazon images based on album/artist.  It makes sense that this all
matches up with this functionality needed in RB.

Alan

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