GMPC 0.14 (Gnome MPD Frontend) Album Cover Support.

[hobbes]

Hi Folks, I have just discovered open source software, and I guess you can call me a newbie. I just hope not to get flamed by this,  but here it comes...

I'm wondering if someone with the technical skill can make the music MPD plugin work (interact) in some way with the new GMPC 0.14.0 (Gnome Music Player Client) in order to display the album cover or artist image like the banshee/amarok  plugins do?

The new GMPC 0.14.0 has a nice looking interface (banshee looks) and great plugins too. Plugins that  can fetch album covers form different websites like amazon.com and last.fm among other things for those who like me enjoy to IceCast/ShoutCast and more...

An aMSN MPD music plugin with support to album cover display via GMPC it will make things even better.


Here's some screenshots:


http://sarine.nl/gmpc-screenshots



Anyone?


Thanks.

[kakaroto]

Hi,
you won't get flamed, but you should have posted in the 'plugins' forum, not the development related forum.. I'll move the thread...
About MPD, I'm not sure, I never used the music plugin, but following the forums, I think that MPD support already exists, you should use the SVN version of the plugin, I found this thread : http://www.amsn-project.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1996&highlight=mpd
which seems to mean that MPD support is already included.. can you look into that ? otherwise, if you have additions, maybe you should code them yourself, I don't know about the authors of the plugin if they are still maintaining (as in adding new features) the plugin, they'll probably answer you shortly...
thanks

[billiob]

I'm the one who coded mpd support for the music plugin.
I can't add the cover feature since it's a client side feature: only gmpc can do that, it's not a feature from mpd, and the plugin interacts directly with mpd.
It's the same reason why you can't send the song you're listening through amsn.