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tom_dl

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hi just stumbled across a website with very high quality imagery of artists and music labels etc.

it's at fanart.tv

i haven't had a chance to really check it out, but maybe it could be added as a source for artists photos in the bottom panel?

i'm not affiliated with the website in any way, just in case anyone was wondering.

lnminente

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Nice pics there. Thanks for sharing! :)

Steven

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looks interesting and i have applied for an API key so will look to do something with this (maybe in the next week or so for the theatre mode plugin and version 2.1 for the main MusicBee application)

If you already have some good quality artist pictures, perhaps you could upload them to fanart.tv so everyone benefits
Last Edit: September 13, 2012, 08:16:14 PM by Steven

Steven

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as this is a very straight forward implementation i decided to include this in the current musicbee release:
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip

for the artist visualiser, check "Use Fanart.tv" is ticked
for the TheatreMode plugin, fanart.tv will automatically be included for the "Artist Picture" view if no picture exists on htbackdrops.com)
and same for the Playing Track tab of the Track and Artist panel

from what i have seen the quality of the pictures are excellent and i recommend this site
Last Edit: September 13, 2012, 10:23:56 PM by Steven

SimonBRT

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seems an excellent source of album covers and artist pictures as well as backgrounds.  good site.

ma_t14

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for the artist visualiser, check "Use Fanart.tv" is ticked
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Where  ???

Sometimes settings can get overwhelming  :P

lnminente

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Here: Menu button\View\Visualiser\Artist pictures (settings)

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Iasc

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is this site included for searching for album covers as well

Steven

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not for version 2.0
but can be added for the next version

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is this site included for searching for album covers as well

+1 for the next MB release

ma_t14

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+1

The more quality sources the better. Hopefully they wont have a problem like albumartexchange did  ;D

tom_dl

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Thanks very much for this Steven - glad it worked out easily for you to implement it.

+1 for searching for album covers in next release

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i have added fanart.tv as a source for album covers - they are large and very high quality ones. You will need to manually select fanart.tv as an artwork source in the Tags(2) preferences. It will be automatically included for new users of musicbee
Its in the next 2.1 update