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

["Jason Bodnar" <jason shakabuku org>]

On a similar note, and this might be an already feature request, it would be
great if you could lookup MusicBrainz info when editing a track.

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:04:29 +0000, Peter wrote
> 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
> 
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