[Feature Request] Automatically change home screen background according to the now playing artist/song/album

[Satanarious]

An option which can be enabled to automatically change the home screen background to that of the currently playing:

• Artist
• Song
• Album

I used to use musicbee before I started using Spotify and it used to fetch what I earlier mentioned using APIs and display as the background art. I think it would be an awesome feature if it could be integrated into this theme. There are quite a few sources to fetch these images from.

Love the theme btw, always wanted something like this.

[harbassan]

Thanks for the suggestion, ill look into it.

[harbassan]

I've added the option to use the currently playing song, you can access it in the home edit settings. I might add an option to use the artist image later as well. Might take a while before it updates on marketplace.

[Satanarious]

Will the theme be automatically updated? Any idea how much time it takes to update on the marketplace?

[harbassan]

If you installed it through marketplace it'll take max 1 day and will happen automatically. Obviously if you installed it manually you can just download the new files.

[Satanarious]

Are you fetching the now-playing song/artist art from Spotify? Because the quality is not suitable for a background. I was wondering if you could use multiple sources to fetch the background, like:

• last.fm
• gettyimages
• Deezer API
• Bing Image Search API
• Fantart.tv

[harbassan]

The best I could find for album art was 1000x1000px using the deezer api, vs 600x600px from Spotify. Also, for artist images fanart.tv is the only one I can find with hq images, but it doesnt have images for a lot of artists. If you can find something with better quality let me know.

[Satanarious]

What about Search engine APIs like:

• Bing Image Search API
• Yandex Image Search API

[harbassan]

Unfortunately the free versions of both are too limited.