Displays album and artist images from Last.fm
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Displays album art or an artist image for the current song.
Album & artist images are retrieved from Last.fm, so don't need to be embedded in your media files.
Very simple add-on, pretty much feature complete. Post if you encounter any bugs or have a request =)
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- Better handling of albums with special characters / unknown albums.
- Log messages available in the error console if you set "extensions.lastfm-albumart.debug" to true.
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Sorry to say that, but it’s kinda useless !
We already have this extension :
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/102
and Last.FM compatibility can be added with that :
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1215
Haha I agree with you.. I was just playing around, thinking of other ways I could integrate songbird with last.fm.
The only advantage of this extension is that it doesn’t mess with your tags or anything, it just displays a nice simple picture of the album cover (or failing that, the artist).
Ah ok sorry, I didn’t see you was the one who made Last.fm extension beside ;)
Hey this is cool because now I can see (steal) your code to grab artist pictures off last.fm for Catalogue View, hope you don't mind :P
no worries moshy :) glad it's helpful
i just checked up on this addon, 3000+ downloads and only 3 comments! I'm surprised so many people downloaded it..
does anyone have any requests? or just like the extension the way it is (basic)?
A autoresizing could be nice. Some Album Art is way too small and others too big. other then that.. awesome work! :)
For me it doesn't work at all (SB 0.7.0). Doesn't show anything in the cover panel.
Ditto on the resizing, other than that, I really like this addon! I just with the art would stretch a bit.
It does only get the picture of the artist and not the album?
Only when it can't find a match for that album (although it isn't smart enough to get album artwork for compilations, so it will resort to artist images).
Does the "Album & artist images are retrieved from Last.fm" work with Songbird 1.0 (on Ubuntu 8.10) ?
Very nice! thanks
Hey I would like that the album cover will Embed in the Metdata of the file and if the fila already has an alum art doesn't do it, :P if its nothing much to ask for haha... Cool add-on.
I'm with hesoyam I would love it if the art was embedded with the Metadata. It would be more helpful than Amarok's album art fetch tool through Amazon.
I would also like to echo the size issue as well. If there was a way to have it grab the highest quality relevant image....
I don't do code, so I don't know how much work I'm asking you to do. I can tell you that this works great on SB 1.0 & Ubuntu 8.10
Yeah! Open Source community apps ROCK!!!
-trailbrain
I seem to be running into a problem. I have one song in my library by Michael Martin Murphy. Strange thing though, every single song displays the same album art...except Red Hot Chili Peppers.
im pretty new to songbirg, and i downloaded this app but it doesnt show up when i open songbird. can you help me?
If Songbird is showing the wrong cover art for a couple albums, you need to check in your music folders and make sure none of the cover art pictures have a generic name. This name could be cover.jpg, album.jpg, or folder.jpg or something else. What songbird does is read your metadata and see it needs to fetch "cover.jpg" for your album art. The problem is a bunch of your songs may be using "cover.jpg" as the name of the album jpg. So you'll probally want to delete the file or rename it. The problem is you will still have to manually drag in the correct cover art. However it may already be in your music folder if you used another music program before.
I have this installed, but I still see the plain-old "Now Playing" pane where I was expecting to see the Last.fm artwork.
@gyozaking: See the little folder-icon to the right of "Now playing"? Click it and you get a drop-down menu where you can switch to Last.fm album art.
@necimal: Where is the album art stored? Is there any possibility we could have an option to store it in the album folder? (That way it could be displayed as Rockbox album art.)
Hey, I wonder if any progress has been made towards automatically embedding the Last.fm album art into the files?
At least it would be nice if the media-flow also picked up the lastfm cover art. Is it possible to do this?
Embedding it would be best though, so that when I plug in the IPod it reads the cover-art.
great little plugin. Happy with how it works.Topmarks to programmer.
It's a pity that there is no album art shown when listening to shoutcast radio. Artist and track title is available on most radio stations, so it should be possible to show the according album art. What do you think?
Saving album art back to tracks... yeah that's a good idea, just haven't had much time lately, being that it's summer down here.
ll have a go at some sort of click-to-save-artwork functionality when I get a chance. Thing is, my add-on would then not use that saved album artwork, since it always goes back to last.fm. Needs more thinking out I guess...
@kiwibird, the album art isn't stored anywhere at the moment, it just displays a frame with an
PS cheers for the support, you guys rock :)
Thanks a LOT for this, since the Album Art Manager does not work on 1.0. It would rock if you COULD save the album music back to the tracks, though :-)
Just commenting to say thank you for this must have extension.
@LegoStar - Sorry for the massive delay, but I hadn't realised that this extension no work when the album name is missing (eg shoutcast radio). Got sent a simple patch by email, so it will work now :)
Doesn't work with 1.2...
LOVE THIS, but please update it to work with songbird 1.20.
I've just recently began using songbird per recommendation of a friend, and it's nice. I'm itchin to grab this plug-in though, so an update would be greatly appreciated!
Hey everyone!
I found how to make this addon work with Songbird 1.2
1. Go to <userprofile>\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\extensions\{0fab887c-69db-4e79-a797-6e37e18a7062}
<userprofile> is where songbird stores its settings, on windows it is something like C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Songbird2
2. Open file install.rdf (probably make a backup first) for editing
3. Find the following line: <em:maxversion>1.2.0a</em:maxversion>
4. Replace "1.2.0a" with "1.2.0"
5. Save file, (re)start Songbird
6. That's all!
I think this approach also works with any other extension.
Hi necimal,
Could you save the URI of the current cover to a Pref? Then I could easily make Pure Player compatible with your Add-on :-)
I suggest to add the following line (L.80) to displayArt() in pane.js:
Application.prefs.setValue("extensions.lastfm-albumart.uri", imageUri);
And maybe reset the Pref in onUnload():
Application.prefs.setValue("extensions.lastfm-albumart.uri", SPLASH_IMG);
Thanks, atreiu.
@ivanzoid: an easier way is to set this value in about:config :
extensions.checkCompatibility = false