provide a way to work offline

[Christian Weiske]

mpd-sound-menu tries to load cover information from audioscrobbler last.fm for every song. I'm on a really really slow UMTS connection and just don't want that the tool connects to those sites, wasting precious bandwidth.

There should be a way to keep mpd-sonud-menu offline.

[Vsevolod Velichko (torkvemada)]

I'll cry eyes out now. Even in our northern, cold and bearful Russia with dial-up connections, 2KB images were the problem only ~15-20 years ago. Yes, I select the smallest available images from last.fm, e.g. http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34s/17232387.jpg has the size of the 1819 bytes. Are you sure, that problem with bandwith is in the mpd-sound-menu? :)

However, I'll add the necessary option in a day or so.

[Christian Weiske (cweiske)]

:) of course mpd-sound-menu is not a really really big fat bandwidth hog, but I also don't like tools connecting to online services if they don't have to, to function acceptable. Cover images could i.e. be read from the place gmpc saves them, but that's another feature request :)

[Vsevolod Velichko (torkvemada)]

Use the --no-artwork option.