Displaying pictures of artists?

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(29-03-2015 23:56)simoncn Wrote:  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.

Plex scans your library and downloads artist information from Discogs (iirc or it may be lastfm). Not sure if it would work with Plex, but certainly with XBMC there should be a way you can export the metadata which could be parsed (external to Minimserver) to provide artists images.

Not sure if this is Simon's thought; but I was imagining this function would be manual for the end user though I'm sure some enterprising scripts could be developed.

Eloise