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

["Gerald B. Cox" <gbcox bzb us>]

Oops, looks like MusicBrainz (or parts of) are non-free; whereas  
FreeDB is well, free... ;-)

Quoting "Gerald B. Cox" <gbcox bzb us>:

> I use GRIP which still utilizes FreeDB for tagging.  I'm not familiar with
> MusicBrainz, but the concern would be for providing compatibility with
> files which are
> tagged using FreeDB or another method.  Providing local file support
> of course definitely
> helps to mitigate that concern.  I have seen postings regarding GRIP
> and providing the
> capability to use MusicBrainz, but nothing about whether this is
> actually being worked.
>
> Quoting 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).
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