mherger wrote:
>
>
> > Is there some kind of bandwidth throttling applied in the plugin due
> to
> > LastFM license restrictions which I should worry about before
> starting
> > to call the CLI command for a long list of artists ?
>
> Not that I'm aware of. The scanner currently does look up information
> for
> any artist found in LMS. And in the past I had worked on album artwork
>
> lookup built in to LMS (which I then had to pull :-(). I never had any
>
> issue running mass lookups at full speed. And I didn't find anything in
>
> Last.fm's guidelines either.
>
Just for information, section 4.4 in LastFM Terms of reference says:
> You will not make more than 5 requests per originating IP address per
> second, averaged over a 5 minute period, without prior written consent
However, maybe it's unnecessary to worry about it until they complain. I
know I tried to handle it in Custom Scan plugin which have a LastFM
scanning module that can retrieve artist images, but I didn't really
find a good way to solve it so if you can avoid it it's probably a good
idea. I guess it's scanning that should be most concern but it's
probably mainly an issue for people with a bit larger libraries as you
should be fine if you do less than 1500 requests/5 minutes.
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