Bugzilla – Bug 6328
Music on Demand+Internet Radio no album artwork
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:16:44 UTC
When you are listening to either music on demand or internet radio the default icon [when no album artwork is available] should be the logo for that service provider. For instance when listening to Rhapsody, the s.p. badge/logo would appear in place of the Jive, "no album icon." I will attach reference artwork...
Created attachment 2503 [details] Service Provider no artwork icon example
Ben I'm not sure how easy this will be?
not easy. for radioio, the url at least indicates the provider. But, shoutcast is just a list of radio sites. The provider would have to be a tracked parameter. We'd have to always know how the playback originated, which would be problematic if a url is stored as a favourite or a playlist.
What if we did a "best effort"? For URLs that could be identified as coming from a particular provider (RadioIO, Rhapsody, Pandora), we use their artwork. Otherwise we fall back to the radio tower icon (we don't even do that right now) Although on further thought...I really don't want to go down the fuzzy path of trying to match providers with obscure and diverse URLs. It'd be really nice to have provider-specific default icons though...I'd like to figure out a way to do this.
place a reference in the protocol handler maybe? If it goes through a specific one, then alter the icon. Anything through the generic handler just gets the radio tower
actually...don't we already do something along these lines? Look at getMetaDataFor (Live365::ProtocolHandler for eg). There is a cover reference there.
To reemphasize something that Ben said in comment 4: In the case that it's a radio station without a specific logo, the cover art should be a radio station icon, not a note symbol icon. Noah: Do we have a generic radio icon inside a square? if not, we'll need one.
We do have a internet radio icon. The original artwork was sent out 9/27/07, however, I reformatted the icon to be the same as the service provider logos. Let me know if you need the drop shadow removed. Please see attached png.
Created attachment 2553 [details] Internet Radio-generic icon artwork The attached artwork is similar to the context of no album artwork, but for internet radio stations.
This is mine to fix, though not at the top of my list
Target 7.0/priority P5
Fixed in r1310
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