2013-05-14, 02:52
(2013-05-11, 13:00)john.doe Wrote: Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it. Can you add support for fanart.tv and/or allmusic.com. I only use 16:9 bg images and I would love to have more images for some artists in my collection.
Fanart.tv requires the MusicBrainz ID for searching. MusicBrainz didn't get fully implemented in Frodo, but I think it's on track for the next major release. Until that is supported I don't want to add support for any service that required MusicBrainz IDs. I could probably figure out something to look up MusicBrainz IDs, but I think it's going to be more effort than it's worth.
I took a look at allmusic.com, and I'm not really comfortable with their licensing requirements. Specifically it looks like their database includes copyrighted images, and they require you to display a copyright message with those messages. Since the copyright display would be dependent on skin developers, I don't want to retrieve images for which I know there is a copyright holder expecting credit. The other sites used by AS are user contributed images. I know some of those images may, in fact, be copyrighted by someone else, but the usage agreement for the APIs isn't as restrictive as the allmusic.com one.
