Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] MusicBrainz for Album Covers, was: Local file support for Album Covers

[Peter <rhythmbox-devel maubp freeserve co uk>]

This sounds like a very interesting addition to RB's album art plugin...

Andrew Conkling wrote:
> Any plans to pull this from MusicBrainz when the tracks are already
> tagged as such? 

When you say "suitably tagged" do you know what tags Banshee uses to 
determine the album cover?  I would guess the MusicBrainz DiscID should 
be used:

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/DiscID

Do you have some suitably tagged example files (even silent dummy tracks 
would be great for testing)?

According to these blog posts, the MusicBrainz covers come from Amazon 
anyway - but using MusicBrainz's cover mapping would probably be better 
than a simple Amazon search:

http://blog.musicbrainz.org/archives/2004/02/server_updates_18.html
http://blog.musicbrainz.org/archives/2006/11/please_come_and.html

I guess we could use the MusicBrainz XMLWebService to get the release 
information - in particular the Amazon ASIN (which we then use to get 
the correct cover from Amazon):

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/XMLWebService

> After noticing that Banshee pulled the right cover all
> the time when it was set on MBz, I was disappointed to find that
> Rhythmbox was doing its own (often incorrect) search.

Looking here, at the Banshee Album-Art plugin, I can see no mention of 
MusicBrainz: http://code.google.com/p/album-art-plugin/

So I guessed this might be done by the "Metadata Searcher" plugin, but 
looking at the source to this plugin maybe not...
http://svn.gnome.org/svn/banshee/trunk/banshee/src/Plugins/Banshee.Plugins.MetadataSearch/

Could you give some more information about how album cover art works in 
Banshee with MusicBrainz?

Peter