Hi Paul, found the message...
I was looking around for sources for some things I have been playing that did not have reviews - i.e. AllMusic didn't have it. I already use LastFM ... so popped over there and found albums covers and reviews for some of it.
Interesting. I don't know too much about LastFM. But its openness seems very attractive for the kind of plugins we're talking about here.
Leads to a thought - alternate sources. A potential benefit of last.fm as a source is that they condone and even encourage such use http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices/
Now this would be great. I'm sure AllMusic offer something similar as well, but they didn't even answer me, when I asked them about the conditions. They're rather discussing with partners like MS :-).
I'll have a look at audioscrobbler (how, btw, are audioscrobbler and LastFM related?!? - I don't quite get it)
I had a look at some of their XML - and album art sometimes links off to other sources ... but it lead to another thought - if no cover art is present in the music directory, could you store it as you come across it (e.g. as folder.jpg) and then other apps could pick it up.
This could be a nice plugin for slimserver. -- Michael ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
