Hi all, On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 09:36, Bart Cerneels <bart.cerne...@kde.org> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 23:23, sandeep <sandy.8...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> Can someone please explain what exactly needs to be done here? >> Thanks, >> Sandeep >> _______________________________________________ >> Amarok-devel mailing list >> Amarok-devel@kde.org >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel >> >> > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Amarok-devel mailing list > Amarok-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel >
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 -- Protect your freedom and join the Fellowship of FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org Please don't send me proprietary file formats, use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300) _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
