2015-02-03, 03:08
(2015-02-02, 12:37)stef.an Wrote: iorifly, as far as I understand you're asking about collecting the cdart on the fly when playing an album.
I'm sure this is possible but it would be a completely different plugin as this one is designed to accumulate all possible artwork for offline usage.
It would be a nice feature though, maybe some day a developer will find the time to do that - assumed fanart.tv would agree doing that with their api as it would cause relatively heavy load.
Actually I think it would be quite the contrary. cdART manager is a MASS downloader. The number of Download calls run on a new library where cdART manager has never before been run will generate a lot more downloads than someone downloading artwork "on the fly" for a few hours of realtime listening a day.
There will always be a demand for plugins like cdART manager, as those of us who are OCD-Max about our artwork would rather "set-it-and-forget-it" than have it done on a "per-listen" basis. I know I would, generally. I have some CD's in my collection I rarely listen to. Not because I dislike them, just that I have to be in the right mood to do so. So for them, they'd never get complete artwork.
As always, different strokes for different folks.
cdART manager is good at what it does, the only thing I dislike somewhat is the way it locks you in to it's UI and prevents you from doing anything else while a scan is ongoing. Also the length of time it takes to process a library of albums/tracks can be painfully long-winded. I'm hoping that at least some of the library scanning performance optimizations introduced in Helix could also be applied to cdART manager. Obviously, MusicBrainz and fanart.tv dictate some of that, but the ability to use registered MusicBrainz accounts, and/or password protected mirrors would negate (at least, for me) some of the headache that goes with keeping cdART manager on top of things.