External source for cover art

[DaveGahan]

Hi Tim, 

Would it be possible to use any free cover art database to get hi-res display ?

Could be https://musicbrainz.org/ for example  

Thanks

[Tim Curtis]

I'm not sure what you mean by "use". You can query musicbrainz and search for covers manually or use an app that can help find covers that you could add to your collection. For example Picard https://picard.musicbrainz.org

Album cover art is generally licensed only for personal, non-commercial use. Links to licensing info for the musicbrainz cover archive which is part of the Internet Archive are below.
https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Cover_Art
https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Cover_Art_Archive
https://archive.org/about/terms.php

-Tim

[DaveGahan]

I'm not sure what you mean by "use". You can query musicbrainz and search for covers manually or use an app that can help find covers that you could add to your collection. For example Picard https://picard.musicbrainz.org

Album cover art is generally licensed only for personal, non-commercial use. Links to licensing info for the  musicbrainz cover archive which is part of the Internet Archive are below.
https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Cover_Art
https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Cover_Art_Archive
https://archive.org/about/terms.php

-Tim

Hi Tim, 

I meant using musicbrainz (or another data provider) directly into moode audio but I understand it's not considered as a personal and non commercial use.

I'll try Picard to create some external jpg covers  

Thanks.

[DaveGahan]

Hi Tim,

I tried Picard which is a great utility to fetch hi-res covert arts. Unfortunately my dlna server (minidlna on a qnap nas) only sends a dlna compliant low-resolution thumbnail (160 x 160) to moode audio. There is no way I can change this as it's hard coded and I don't have the skill to compile a patched version.

I could change function getUpnpCoverUrl() in playerlib.php to use another method (don't know yet exactly how) but this file is read only.

Is there another way I could do this, for example by creating some plug in?

Thanks.

[Tim Curtis]

In moOde 4 series /var/www is r/w unless you manually squashed the file system which would make it r/o.

The low res cover art is part of UPnP spec and cannot be changed AFAIK. The getUpnpCoverUrl() function in playerlib.php simply calls a UPnP utility named upexplorer to fetch the cover art. That utility is part of libupnppsamples-code in the upmpdcli repository.

If you want high res cover art you would prolly need to go with placing a cover image file in the Album dir or embedding the cover art in each of the song files. Then you would use file sharing (Samba or NFS) instead of UPnP/DLNA to access your collection.

-Tim