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Scape last.fm #76

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I know some of thepictures on last.fm are not great quality but I have a
fair amount of obscure music and I would prefer some pictures rather than
spending most of my time looking at default.jpg

The API is simple (well in fact you can bypass the whole API as they
provide a direct xml source)

You just need to change the artist part of this URL but will give you an
xml documet with a list of images and also their sizes (so small or oddly
shaped ones can be thrown out)

http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/artist/the%20twilight%20sad/images.rss

Thinking that this would be good as a backup to HTPCBackdrops if there is
nothing there?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jameso...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2010 at 6:51

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Did a little playing with scraping this myself for artist thumbs and there is 
some 
badly written code here
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/listen-music-99/why-does-artist-preview-has-
darkgray-borders-79446/#post593915

This did identify that the RSS feed mentioned above is a little dubious.   It 
appears 
to sort by date added rather than popularity and you get many pictures which 
are 
nothing to do with the artist you are looking for.   I coded this to work with 
the 
artist details xml but this only has a single image (possibly the most popular).

I think to get this working it would need a SOAP call to the artist images web 
service which allows you to sort the data by popularity (default) rather than 
dateadded

Original comment by jameso...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2010 at 12:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hi,

Thank you for your report but I have decided not to include this in the plugin.

best regards
cul8er

Original comment by markus_e...@telia.com on 30 Mar 2010 at 11:02