[Feature Request] Display Album Covers

Bug #179099 reported by Bojan Axievski
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Decibel Audio Player
Fix Released
Undecided
Anonym25712

Bug Description

My idea is to display the cover art in the notification popup. Nothing fancy like automatically download the cover or anything like that, just display cover.jpg or folder.jpg from the currently playing dir.

This is the last request for a while, I promise.

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Anonym25712 (anonym25712) wrote :

I'm currently thinking about how to display album cover. For the moment, I'm about to write a module that will download covers, but that could be an option (e.g., display cover.jpg if it exists, otherwise download it). However, I still don't know how to display it in a "modular" way, i.e., not all users want to see covers.

Changed in decibel-audio-player:
assignee: nobody → athropos
status: New → Confirmed
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null (nightmorph-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Well, here's how another couple of gstreamer/python-based apps do it.

Rhythmbox: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/rhythmbox/trunk/plugins/artdisplay/

Exaile: http://tinyurl.com/5wobsc

Cover art fetch and display optional on both players; for Rhythmbox, you can just disable the plugin entirely. Rhythmbox's way of doing it is pretty stupid, though. It's not smart about what to search for, and you can't give it parameters (like cover.jpg or any *.jpeg). Nor can you configure it to only search local covers and not fetch via the internet (and vice versa). And it likes to fetch the wrong art from Amazon, and it will only fetch art if it's coming from tracks that have been added to the playlist; i.e. playing a file from the library browser won't display the art. So ... maybe *don't* do it like Rhythmbox? :)

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Anonym25712 (anonym25712) wrote :

I've got a first functional version, but it's still a work in progress. Covers are currently fetched from Last.fm which is way simpler and more accurate than Amazon. The downside is that maybe users will need to open a Last.fm account to get a personal api_key to use this plugin (at least when used to download covers from the Internet).

Changed in decibel-audio-player:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Anonym25712 (anonym25712) wrote :

Fixed in trunk.

Either local covers or Internet covers may be used based on the configuration.

Changed in decibel-audio-player:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Anonym25712 (anonym25712) wrote :

See v0.11

Changed in decibel-audio-player:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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