I've added some (experimental) code to 7.6 which allows you to have the music scanner automatically download missing album artwork for your music. It's working good enough to give it some broader testing. Scanning my test library of about 670 albums it was able to find roughly 90% of all artwork automatically.
The artwork download is an additional step during the scanning process. It's disabled by default, but I'd love to hear some feedback how it's working for you. In order to enable the automatic artwork download, please follow these instructions: - install SBS 7.6/r31180 or later - make sure it's using test.mysqueezebox.com: you should have use_sn_test:1 in your server.prefs file. If you don't, add it, while SBS is shut down, then restart the server - enable the download in Settings/Advanced/Formatting - re-run a scan If you're an iTunes user (using our iTunes integration) I would be interested to know how this compares in performance and results with our iTunes artwork importer (which can be enabled/disabled on the iTunes settings page). A few caveats: - automatic artwork download will take some time, as it's communicating with external resources - mysb.com is using last.fm as the source for the covers. Thus the quality of the artwork can vary a lot (I've seen >1600x1600px PNG as well as 100x100px JPG) - mysb.com will currently limit the artwork size to max. 500x500px. Larger files are being scaled down. This value is a deliberate decision based on the experience during testing, but it's not set in stone. Have fun! -- Michael _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
