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This is possible in general. We need to parse the Meta Information of the MP3s for that which should not be a big problem. I think the main question is from which API we could receive the images of the album covers without having to perform an API request for each MP3 file.

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MP3 files with id3v2 can contain an image file. We should be able to use that and possibly have a default instead of going out to get it every time.
https://github.com/43081j/id3 seems like the perfect library to use to start reading the information.

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Cool, think we should look how widely used the image-parameter is :)
That module looks nice :)

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I would also recommend we make it extensible, if one person likes to use service X and one person likes to use service Y, why not let them choose the service as long as someone/we/they make a plugin to call that service. If the image parameter is not populated that is. Maybe we have the ability to save it to the mp3 if possible and wanted as well.

I know I use the image parameter for all of my mp3's, as it is read by both android and iDevice to show the album art.

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All my .mp3's seem to have the album art already as all my decices seem to
show the album art without any been in my directory.

Maybe you could have a placeholder for when the specific album art is not
available?

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:17 PM, plessbd [email protected] wrote:

I would also recommend we make it extensible, if one person likes to use
service X and one person likes to use service Y, why not let them choose
the service as long as someone/we/they make a plugin to call that service.
If the image parameter is not populated that is. Maybe we have the ability
to save it to the mp3 if possible and wanted as well.

I know I use the image parameter for all of my mp3's, as it is read by
both android and iDevice to show the album art.

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