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Bug 463780 - Cover Art Plugin
Cover Art Plugin
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: Plugins
2.18.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: General Totem maintainer(s)
General Totem maintainer(s)
: 555382 565367 640608 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 463800
Blocks: 425548
 
 
Reported: 2007-08-05 22:04 UTC by Jon Bolt
Modified: 2014-01-24 08:12 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Jon Bolt 2007-08-05 22:04:09 UTC 
At the moment when playing audio you can have a blank black screen or a visualizer. It would be great if there was a plugin to show cover art fetched from amazon or another web service whenever an audio track was being played. If the cover art was cached in the same location as Rhythmbox all the better.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2007-08-05 22:45:47 UTC 
Filed bug 463800 against Rhythmbox, so we can use more of the code for a sidebar widget.

Using the cover art in the visualisation would certainly be quite a bit harder.
Comment 2 Sunil Mohan Adapa 2007-08-09 05:45:30 UTC 
This is related to bug #425548 (Add cover sidebar).
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2007-08-09 13:21:05 UTC 
Kind of. One of them is for films, the other one for music. I made bug 425548 a blocker and will change the title.
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2008-10-07 12:22:00 UTC 
*** Bug 555382 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2008-12-25 16:27:02 UTC 
*** Bug 565367 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Tobias Wolf 2009-11-03 23:31:55 UTC 
re: Comment 1:
> Using the cover art in the visualisation would certainly be quite a bit harder.

Sorry if this is an ignorant remark, but isn’t displaying art in the video area for audio-only files  really easy because the playbin element can be fed still images too (via jpegdec and pngdec)?

I think easiest would be to support local artwork first (à la folder.jpg).  I noticed recently that Totem already displays APIC artwork in the video area (i.e., a picture embedded in a tag).

Is it reasonable to assume that a simple plugin could check for external artwork in the same folder (or download artwork from web services) and then put this image into the video area?
Comment 7 Philip Withnall 2011-01-26 22:27:29 UTC 
*** Bug 640608 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Bastien Nocera 2014-01-24 08:12:38 UTC 
There will not be a cover art sidebar in Totem master as it's clearly been recentered on Videos playback, not audio playback. There will be support for video cover art (see mockups at [1]) but not specifically for audio.

[1]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Videos#Tentative_Design