Show album art in list

[ZenithDK]

I'm using Mopidy-Tidal to navigate "My Albums" and I notice that Mopidy-Mobile does not show album art for the albums - only for tracks. If I navigate to an artist, only tracks gets album art, not albums.

Not sure if the fault is with Mopidy-Tidal or Mopidy-Mobile.

[tkem]

Currently, when browsing, images are shown only for tracks.
With Mopidy >= v1.0, this would also be possible for albums using the new library.get_images() method; will have to look into that, to see if this can easily be done in a backwards-compatzile way to keep MusicBox users happy (still Mopidy v0.19).

[tkem]

Mind that your backend will have to support library.get_images(), that's why I didn't use this in the first place; I think there's still not many that do. So it may depend on Mopidy-Tidal to be able to retrieve images for album URIs.

[tkem]

@ZenithDK: From your log in #126 it looks like tidal doesn't support get_images(), so this would probably result in a lot of lookups.

[ZenithDK]

Okay, unfortunately I'm about to move so I shouldn't (and probably won't)
have time to try and fix that.
Will make an issue to track it with the maintainer, though.
Thanks!

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016, 19:12 Thomas Kemmer notifications@github.com wrote:

@ZenithDK https://github.com/ZenithDK: From your log in #126
#126 it looks like tidal
doesn't support get_images(), so this would probably result in a lot of
lookups.

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#182 (comment).

[tkem]

Even with tidal supporting get_images(), MoMo should limit the number of images in one request as in #183. So thanks for bringing this up!

[tkem]

And yeah, it's a right kerfuffle you made here ;-)

[tkem]

The major problem I see with this is that I'd prefer to load album (and also artist) images only after retrieving the album's/artist's metadata, so this also work with the alternative cover art providers. However, the Mopidy API currently does not provide an efficient API for looking up an album's metadata only, i.e. without looking up all tracks, too; at least none that I'm aware of.

[ZenithDK]

Is this something we should put in a feature request for mopidy core?

[tkem]

IIRC correctly, this has been put up already a couple of times, and is likely to be addressed in the next major API revision (Mopidy 3.0 I think).

[tkem]

Closing, since I think there's anything MoMo can do about this (short-term).