Automatic artwork

[magister]

Recent versions of MinimServer provide the option to display automatic artwork for all index entries when browsing. I’d like to turn this off for everything except actual albums and songs/compositions; for instance, I have dozens of works by Bach and showing the cover art for one album when searching by composer is meaningless and, to me, confusing. I just spent some time searching in the user guide but can’t find out how to do this (it’s probably there, I know). Any pointers?

[simoncn]

In the serverOptions property, set indexArtwork=none. For more information, see this section.

[magister]

Thank you!

[mminga]

If needed; I can provide a snippet which downloads images of Artists from discogs and bandcamp.

[magister]

(12-06-2023 23:35)mminga Wrote:  I can provide a snippet which downloads images of Artists

Thank you for the offer, although I'm not sure what is involved here. Are saying that it's possible to have (for instance) an image of the pianist appear when I search for recordings by Glenn Gould?

[simoncn]

The index artwork feature enables you to add images of artists, composers, etc. to your library and have these images appear in the index lists you see when browsing by artist, composer, etc.

[magister]

Thanks -- that sounds like a neat feature, although I prefer to use the limited screen real estate on my iPad to show more names at once.

[mminga]

As promised, here a Python script for Linux.
It is for everyone free to adapt.
Update: Read the following.
https://github.com/residuum/collectiontag
Gernerate an API Token of Discogs.

I use more than one artist in my library.
Preperation for my case:
I use a copy of my library.
With Mp3 Tag I merge the split Artist fields separated by "|".
I exported all to "csv".
In Excel, split to colums and removed all unneeded columns, result e.g.:
The Who|Who, the
The tool downloads the image and provides two files, "The Who.jpg" and "Who, the.jpg".

I have a huge library with thousands artists it saved many time. It downloaded more the 14000 images of Artists, Composer, Dirctors, and Bands.