Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox Coverart Plugin Never Finds Images

[John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>]

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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jonathan Matthew [mailto:jonathan d14n org]
> > > Sent: Friday, 07 September, 2012 12:32
> > > To: John Frankish
> > > Cc: rhythmbox-devel gnome org
> > > Subject: Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox Coverart Plugin Never Finds
> > > Images
> > >
> > > On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:27 PM, John Frankish <j-frankish slb com wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > No matter which track is playing (see an example below), the
> > > coverart plugin never seems to fetch any cover art.
> > >
> > > In this case it was because last.fm doesn't have a cover image for this album.
> > > Try something less obscure?
> >
> > I've tried something like 50 tracks, some of which were far from obscure,
> and the result is the same.
> >
> > "rhythmbox-missing-artwork.svg" displays, but is something required in
> > mimeapps.list to fetch and display cover art perhaps?
> 
> To add to this, I tried:
> 
> $ gvfs-open
> "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=album.getinfo&artist=U2&alb
> um=The+Joshua+Tree&api_key=ff56d530598d65c1a4088e57da7be2f9"
> 
> ..which gave:
> 
> The Joshua Tree U2 1412230 026312fe-cec5-3ea8-9408-3ebc665b6985
> http://www.last.fm/music/U2/The+Joshua+Tree 20 Nov 2007, 00:00
> http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34s/12640013.png http://userserve-
> ak.last.fm/serve/64s/12640013.png http://userserve-
> ak.last.fm/serve/174s/12640013.png http://userserve-
> ak.last.fm/serve/300x300/12640013.png http://userserve-
> ak.last.fm/serve/_/12640013/The+Joshua+Tree+the+mostknown+cover+of
> +The+Jos.png 629848 6660723 Where The Streets Have No Name (Album
> Version - Remastered) 336
> http://www.last.fm/music/U2/_/Where+The+Streets+Have+No+Name+(Al
> bum+Version+-+Remastered) 0 U2 704acdbb-1415-4782-b0b6-0596b8c55e46
> http://www.last.fm/music/U2 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
> (Remastered) 277
> http://www.last.fm/music/U2/_/I+Still+Haven%27t+Found+What+I%27m+L
> ooking+For+(Remastered) 0 U2 704acdbb-1415-4782-b0b6-0596b8c55e46
> ...
> 
> Both the url below show an image in a browser
> 
> http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34s/12640013.png
> http://userserve-
> ak.last.fm/serve/_/12640013/The+Joshua+Tree+the+mostknown+cover+of
> +The+Jos.png
> 
> ..and if I copy a track locally and download one of the above images and
> rename it cover.png, it is displayed when the track is played by rhythmbox.
> 
> Is the coverart plugin unable to parse the above maybe?