Bug 149453

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi all,

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 09:36, Bart Cerneels <bart.cerneels at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 23:23, sandeep <sandy.8925 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Can someone please explain what exactly needs to be done here?
>> Thanks,
>> Sandeep
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> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149453
> JJ: Icon also for artist more than for album only
>
> The title is crap but basically it asks for artist art (photo or logo
> I guess) like album art, just on the artist level.
> This one sounds a bit unfeasible to implement really, only very few
> reliable sources of artist art exist and we didn't really consider it
> when the Meta classes were designed. And while album art has a certain
> aspect ratio (CD case), pictures found on the web will vary wildly.
> Then again, adding image() to Meta::Artist is simple enough, adding it
> to the rest of amarok perhaps not so much but it will only be shown in
> 3 places that I can think of (collectionbrowser, now-playing and
> playlist).
>
> Makes me wonder it's useful to have an image (url, rather then QImage,
> but that is a different topic) for every Meta class, i.e. make it part
> of MetaBase
>
> Perhaps you can investigate it a bit sandeep?
>
> Bart
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Couldn't we use the same engine as the cover manager but search for
actual pictures of the artist? last.fm does display artist pictures
quite well, I wonder where they get it from.


Regards, Myriam

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