Yes, in LMS. Some formats like "_F" don't work with large images, the images get padded with a colored background. And on some NASs server crashing due to artwork resizing is a common issue.
Definitely. That's why services relying on it should implement some smarts to only get the smallest artwork needed. Eg. I have a plugin which uses last.fm. In the past this would sometimes return PNGs of > 2000x2000px size, weighing multiple MBs, because I was always requesting the largest image available. But last.fm offers several pre-rendered sizes. Using the new resizer proxy and this knowledge allowed me to cut down the average download size from last.fm to <<50kB, as the Radio's display doesn't need more than the 300x300px version (often 252x252px are available too). This can easily be handled by LMS.
BTW: the artwork scaler so far has never been affected by the MySB outages;)
How wrong you are :-). At some point it even was suspect to have caused an outage.
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