Bug 149453 - Artist picture in addition to Album art
Summary: Artist picture in addition to Album art
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: amarok
Classification: Applications
Component: Collection Browser (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: LO wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Amarok Developers
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Keywords:
: 160837 279619 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2007-09-01 13:16 UTC by cerebro84
Modified: 2013-01-11 12:29 UTC (History)
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Description cerebro84 2007-09-01 13:16:31 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 3.5.7, Gentoo)
Compiler:          Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.20-beyond2

As there's already a feature for setting the album cover, I'd like that to be implemented for artists too. It would be amazing to use a "artist-flow" browser to select the artist and then the album, or simply just to view singer face in the collection sidebar.
Comment 1 Dan Meltzer 2007-09-02 02:33:41 UTC 
While I think this is definatly a cool idea, I'm not really sure how feasible it would be to implement.  There are no databases of artist pictures that I know of, so it would have to rely on the user searching for each and setting it manually.  I'm not sure how many users would want to spend the time doing that.
Comment 2 cerebro84 2007-09-02 02:38:27 UTC 
Well,
the artist tab is based on wikipedia, isn't it? There's almost always a picture of the artist there... it may be a little hackish, but the automagic menu entry "fetch from wikipedia.org" should fetch the first picture of that page and propose that. Or use a window with the preview of a google images query.
Comment 3 Bram Schoenmakers 2007-09-02 08:55:53 UTC 
Maybe www.last.fm is a better place for pictures, but I haven't checked if it is allowed to use them. But last.fm contains many many pictures of artists and albums.
Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-09-29 10:32:43 UTC 
*** Bug 160837 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-08-01 12:57:59 UTC 
Grabbing those pictures from last.fm sounds like a nice idea, it is already done in the Similar Artists Applet
Comment 6 Ralf Engels 2011-01-25 17:21:11 UTC 
Actually I think this is a great idea and straight forward to implement.

Could be a student job maybe.
Comment 7 Todd 2011-01-25 18:58:16 UTC 
Would this make a good GSOC project, or is it too simple?  If they added the capability and made a GUI similar to the album art one to control it, would that be sufficient for a GSOC project?
Comment 8 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-01-25 20:40:15 UTC 
Seems a bit simple to me, hardly a 3 months work.
Comment 9 Ralf Engels 2011-01-26 16:31:15 UTC 
No, definitely not three months, more like three days. 
A lot of places to change but you just have to do it like the album.
Comment 10 Sandeep 2011-04-14 00:46:20 UTC 
Is this still open?
Comment 11 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-04-14 12:11:02 UTC 
well, yes, apparently, as the bug is not closed :) Please take this to the amarok devel list for discussions.
Comment 12 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-08-08 21:35:13 UTC 
*** Bug 279619 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Matěj Laitl 2013-01-11 12:29:46 UTC 
Removing junior-job keyword. It would be 3 days for Ralf (*very* experienced Amarok dev), but could turn into a nightmare for an Amarok newcomer.