Yes, the thumbnailer uses 7digital (indirectly, via dash.ubuntu.com,
which acts as a proxy).
The thumbnailer is a shared service that is used by several apps and
scopes. It is responsible for producing thumbnails from local media
files and, if a music file doesn't contain embedded artwork, trying to
get artwork from the remote image server (ultimately, 7digital).
There are no privacy issues here. dash.ubuntu.com doesn't make any end-
user information available to 7digital. As far as 7digital is concerned,
all requests come from dash.ubuntu.com. And dash.ubuntu.com doesn't
learn much about the origin of a request either, other than what it can
glean from the HTTP headers.
So, turning this off for privacy reasons is not a real concern here,
IMO.
I can understand the bandwidth concern. Note though that each particular
image is retrieved only once, and not at all if a music track contains
embedded artwork (which will always be preferred). Once in the cache,
the image stays there until the cache runs out of room (which, except
for very large music and image collections, will practically be never).
So, you take the bandwidth hit for each song only once, not repeatedly.
I'll mark this as a wishlist item. If we get a few more requests for
disallowing remote artwork retrieval, we can look at implementing this.
Most likely, the settings app would get another toggle to globally
disable/enable remote artwork downloads.
** Changed in: music-app
Status: New => Invalid
** Changed in: thumbnailer (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
** Also affects: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1592108
Title:
No option to disable remote album/artist/track art requests
Status in Ubuntu Music App:
Invalid
Status in Ubuntu UX:
New
Status in thumbnailer package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in ubuntu-system-settings package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
The Music App appears to download album/artist/track art
automatically. Is there a way to disable this functionality to save
bandwidth? The Music App does not appear to have any user settings at
all (unless I am overlooking them).
The service used to fetch the art from is far from bug-free. For an
album called 'Musik für festliche Stunden' I get an album cover for
'Strauss zum Saubermachen'. While that does seem like an interesting
album (clean the house with Strauss?) it is not even remotely the
correct album.
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