Artist Image

Feature requests
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Feature description:

While browsing the library by artist, the artist image is not shown automatically, need to select generate random image from tracks.

Kindly add the feature so that the app could either get the artist image from the tracks or from the internet.

Problem solved:

It would automatically display the artist image.

Brought benefits:

It would automatically display the artist image, no need to select for every artist.

Other application solutions:

 

 

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Symfonium have a way to get artist image from internet for it’s own scanner else it’s the server job to do that.

What server do you connect to?

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Local files. But for me ots not showing artist images while browsing the library by artist

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Have you enables the option to scrape artists during the provider configuration? Or is it enabled now ?

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Sorry, did I read that right? Symfonium has a way to retrieve artist images from the internet?

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For the local provider, yes. You can configure that in the local provider: “Scrape additional artists metadata”.

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Ok, yea so that would be images u already have stored with the artists, correct?

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Its already enabled, i have even resync it but still artist images are not shown

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Sorry, i missed this is only for files stored on your phone. Hopefully this is extended to media providers in the future. Unless it’s up to the provider to build that in?

Edit: oh wait, i just realized I’m responding to the provider I use. Love your app. Is there any way to have this work with lms?

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LMS would have to add that feature. Navidrome does this when you plug in API keys for last.fm and spotify.

You can use this matrix to figure out which provider has the features you want, or you can ask lms to add the feature (or you can add it yourself if you have the ability)

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This is just a random user unrelated to LMS :wink:

@itm is the guy.

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It is tracked here: Artist image retrieval · Issue #557 · epoupon/lms · GitHub

I really regret that taggers like picard do not automatically download artist images, as they are able to do for albums…

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The main issue is that there’s no official way to store those images, not all tag format support artist images and in all cases duplicating artist images in all the songs is a complete waste of storage.

Maybe we should properly describe something for most cases for LMS that I could also reuse for the Symfonium parser to start a trend.

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I even added a doc for this, can you believe it? :grin:

(You also remind me I wanted to test to dedup images that are stored in tracks…)

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So miracles to sometimes happen ? :slight_smile:

With that said it’s not very clear, what file extensions are supported? So mbid.jpg? or just mbid.

For artist it’s artist.jpg, just artist or the actual artist name? (How does it works with multiple album artists)

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It is artist.jpg, artist.bmp, artist.png, whatever image format supported.
Same for mbids.
I had false positive using the artist name as file name (ex: the Metallica album from Metallica) so I gave up.

For multiple album artists, it should likely fail using a generic file name, so the mbids would be the way to go.

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In theory, would it be possible to have all the images generated into one “artist image” folder, labeled with mbids, so that way everything is concise and together?

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It is already possible with lms, you can put your artist images wherever you want if file names are mbid (same for album images actually)

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Perfect. Now just need a way go auto generate them