I'm working on a plugin for getting album covers. Currently there are some problems.
1. The cover url is correctly. But at musicbee is showing that the search cover doesn't match the results.
I don't have experience in developing C# software, the following code to get the image and convert it to byte[] is copy from google. is there something wrong?
2. I have set the plug-in name, in the settings interface shows normal, but the search interface shows "plug" not display the correct name. Why and how to change it?
3. Is there an open source album cover plug-in I can refer to? I didn't find it on github.
public PluginInfo Initialise(IntPtr apiInterfacePtr)
{
mbApiInterface = new MusicBeeApiInterface();
mbApiInterface.Initialise(apiInterfacePtr);
about.PluginInfoVersion = PluginInfoVersion;
about.Name = "Douban Music";
about.Description = "Get information from douban music";
about.Author = "Tumuyan";
about.TargetApplication = ""; // the name of a Plugin Storage device or panel header for a dockable panel
about.Type = PluginType.ArtworkRetrieval;
about.VersionMajor = 1; // your plugin version
about.VersionMinor = 0;
about.Revision = 1;
about.MinInterfaceVersion = MinInterfaceVersion;
about.MinApiRevision = MinApiRevision;
about.ReceiveNotifications = (ReceiveNotificationFlags.PlayerEvents | ReceiveNotificationFlags.TagEvents);
about.ConfigurationPanelHeight = 0; // height in pixels that musicbee should reserve in a panel for config settings. When set, a handle to an empty panel will be passed to the Configure function
return about;
}
...
public string[] GetProviders()
{
string[] s = { "Douban" };
return s;
}
public string RetrieveArtwork(string sourceFileUrl, string albumArtist, string album, string provider){
// url builder is removed to debug ....
string url = "https://img1.doubanio.com/view/subject/public/s28790429.jpg";
var request2 = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
byte[] bytes;
using (Stream stream = request2.GetResponse().GetResponseStream())
{
using (MemoryStream mstream = new MemoryStream())
{
int count = 0;
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int readNum = 0;
while ((readNum = stream.Read(buffer, 0, 1024)) > 0)
{
count = count + readNum;
mstream.Write(buffer, 0, readNum);
}
mstream.Position = 0;
using (BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(mstream))
{
bytes = br.ReadBytes(count);
}
}
}
return Convert.ToBase64String(bytes);
}
(https://i.loli.net/2020/10/11/bOryvhcXtBI4Mnf.png)
Oh, it's working fine now.
I was misled by the comments in the sample project.
The function only need return the url, I mistakenly thought I needed to return a encode bin file.
// return Base64 string representation of the artwork binary data from the requested provider
// only required if PluginType = ArtworkRetrieval
// return null if no artwork is found
Now only the plug-in name shows "plugin" not defined name