mherger;567154 Wrote: > 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. > Scanning the music files took 90 seconds, downloading artwork took about 10 minutes. This is my rather small 262 album 3437 track library. Very acceptable times considering how much it seems to have got the right album art for.
Some problems: - Most compilation albums failed, I'm not sure if this is because most of my compilation albums are only released in Sweden or if it's some generic problem with compilation albums. - There are a few albums that got an alternative album cover, probably because the international version of the album might have a different cover than the version released in Sweden. - There are a few albums without a cover that seems to have special image instead, you should probably not use these as album covers if possible, for example: http://www.last.fm/music/Tommy+K%C3%B6rberg/Stilla+Natt - I had one album where it got the wrong cover, it got this one: http://www.last.fm/music/Mainstreet+of+Sweden/Love+And+Play But should have got this one: http://www.last.fm/music/Mainstreet+of+Sweden/Mainstreet Total statistics for my library: - Albums with correct cover: 228 - Albums with the special image instead of a real album cover: 3 - Albums where it failed to retrieve cover: 20 (mostly compilations) - Albums with cover from wrong album: 1 - Albums with alternative cover that doesn't match Swedish release: 10 Overall I have to say that it worked pretty good. Assuming your retrieval code works correctly I don't think there is any point of going to a higher resolution than 500x500. Most of my albums besides big releases from famous artists were retrived in 300x300 or 160x160 resolution, presumably because there isn't any higher resolution image on LastFM. So even though I'd love to get 768x768 images for the iPad I have a feeling there would be very few images with that resolution available from LastFM. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you like to encourage future presence on this forum and/or third party plugin/applet development, 'donations are always appreciated' (http://erland.isaksson.info/donate)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80979 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
