Album art fetching question

Patrick C patrick.pxc.c at gmail.com
Sat Apr 12 23:58:17 UTC 2008


I understand that Amarok does not store the album art for songs in the ID3
tags and that it does this because it fetches the album art from Amazon,
whose license only permits the presence of the media for a certain length of
time. When that length of time is reached, Amarok then "refreshes" the album
art by refreshing it.

As an alternative, would it be feasible/easier to fetch album art from
Wikipedia instead? Wikipedia uses only unrestrictively licensed artwork, and
I've found it's also more accurate as far as getting the images I want (if
an album/artist uses a common phrase in their name, or if the name of the
album is the same as the band name, for example, the Amazon fetching is
essentially useless).
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