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

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew conkling gmail com>]

On 1/23/07, Peter <rhythmbox-devel maubp freeserve co uk> 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)?

I don't know offhand, but I have plenty of files (all tagged with
MBz's Picard). Let me know how and I'd be happy to supply the tags
here.

> 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:

Oh, absolutely; I listen to mostly classical which doesn't search well
on Amazon, but even still I've had Björk tracks (just to name someone
who I'm assuming is sufficiently popular) with incorrect cover art.

> 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/

That's a random third-party plugin, but not one that I use.

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

I'm not exactly sure; even with all the Banshee plugins off, it still
retrieved the cover art (which is not saved locally, by the way).