Retrieving Embeded Album Art
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 7:25 am
I'm currently in the process of extending Avant Window Navigator's Media Control applet to support Guayadeque.
It's going fine, except I'm having trouble finding a way to retrieve album art stored in track tags. The GetMetadata dbus method only returns a value for 'arturl' when art is saved in the same folder as tracks.
I know I could manually read the image from the tag using the 'location' value, but AWN has rather strict rules about adding extra dependencies and I don't think they'll make the exception for Guayadeque when the applet support many audio players already.
Most players seem to cache embedded images in way or another. Is there some way to retrieve album art embedded in tags that I might be overlooking? Any ideas?
It's going fine, except I'm having trouble finding a way to retrieve album art stored in track tags. The GetMetadata dbus method only returns a value for 'arturl' when art is saved in the same folder as tracks.
I know I could manually read the image from the tag using the 'location' value, but AWN has rather strict rules about adding extra dependencies and I don't think they'll make the exception for Guayadeque when the applet support many audio players already.
Most players seem to cache embedded images in way or another. Is there some way to retrieve album art embedded in tags that I might be overlooking? Any ideas?