>> Do you mean showing the station logo or something else ?
>
> I mean show artwork like Radiotime aka Tunein does

FWIW: I've been playing with the thought of doing this as a server side  
plugin. I did it for a local station to start with.

But in my experience it's not easy to do right, and last.fm probably isn't  
the best solution for this. Eg. the key for an artist is his name. There's  
not much you can do if you happen to have an artist with a non unique  
name. There's a rather popular pop band in Switzerland called Pegasus. And  
they didn't do their homework when choosing that name. There's another one  
in Germany, doing "power metal". And a hardcore band. The biography is for  
the Swiss group, while most pictures are for the hardcore band etc.

The good news is that TuneIn does provide this feature in their API.

Erland - if you're interested in my Perl code for this feature, let me  
know. There are a few tweaks to work around above issues (optimizing for  
the Swiss music scene), but in general it does work pretty well already  
for pop/rock.

-- 

Michael
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