Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 16:07 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On 10/02/14 16:04, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Hey,
>
> Hi,
>
> > > - Local-art plugin: the same, but this time it searches for the
> > > thumbnail in the local disk. It implements (or tries to) the
> > > MediaArtStorageSpec to fetch them. We discussed with Music team that it
> > > would be a good idea to have a separated library to deal with this spec.
> > > So probably this plugin could use libmediaart to fetch the coverart from
> > > disk, and just get rid of our own custom code.
> >
> > That sounds great.
>
> Indeed it does.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724046

> > > But we could have the inverse relation too: libmediaart could use Grilo
> > > to fetch the thumbnails from webservices, and then download it and
> > > stores in local disk following the spec. Grilo would only provide the
> > > URL (using, for instance, lastfm or tmdb plugin) and libmediaart would
> > > be in charge of saving the URL on disk.
> >
> > I would leave it up to applications to do the downloading (as they
> > probably already do). The saving could be implemented calling
> > grl_source_store_metadata() on the local-art plugin which would do the
> > right thing.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724047

> > Want me to file bugs for those?
>
> Please do, thanks Bastien!

Done, cheers