Displaying pictures of artists?

[simoncn]

(29-03-2015 18:57)airflow Wrote:  I am a new user of MinimServer, coming from Plex. I still use Plex today for media like movies and series, while I switched to MinimServer for music. Plex has a huge advantage over MinimServer when it comes to dynamically fetching metadata of media, generally speaking. For example, for each movie in my collection, Plex automatically fetches casting actors and the director of the movie, which then is used for the search-tree/directory when browsing the collection. While you probably could implement this by tagging of media, here this is done dynamically when scanning the library.

When I tested MinimServer for the first time, the artists-list in my music section didn't look as nice as I was used to by Plex, because there were no pictures of the artists. I attach a screenshot of how this looks. The pictures are obviously from some online-database (I don't know which one), and make browsing more visually appealing for the user. I still very much prefer using MinimServer as many functions are superior than in Plex, mainly search-tree, speed and the search-function, so I decided to live without these pictures. While I would be happy to see visual representation of artists within MinimServer, I still wouldn't use it if it the pictures had to be manually provided by the user for each artist. For me, personally, that would be too much of hassle and work. :-)

greetings, airflow

Thanks for this feedback, which is very helpful.

I don't know where Plex is getting these pictures from and I don't know whether MinimServer would ever provide this functionality. I also understand that you wouldn't wish to enter these pictures into your library manually.

Even so, there might be a reason to have the proposed facility because it opens up the possibility of someone creating a third-party tool that could download these pictures and store them in the correct locations in your library to make MinimServer show them automatically.