Subsonic Forum

As I was thinking and planning out a whole new subsonic/musiccabinet front-end/theme I was thinking since you are already intergrading last.fm for bio information and artist photos, why not spice up the whole interface even more with fanart.tv support.

Music Section: http://fanart.tv/music-fanart/
API: http://fanart.tv/api-docs/music-api/

Available Art:
- HD Music Logos (Image Size 800 x 310px)
- ClearLOGOs (Transparent/Image Size 400 x 155px)
- Artist Background (1920x1080 pixels)
- cdArt (1000x1000 pixels)
- Album Cover (1000x1000 pixels)
- Artist Thumb
- Music Banner
- Record Label

For example I could use Artist Logos in themes to replace the Text Artist name when available... Higher Resolution artist covers for zoom functions... Artist Backgrounds can be faded behind bio/tracklisting... Display Artist record label logo... many options, maybe toggable for those that don't want to use the extra space for the fancy stuff.

Here is a quick mockup screenshot of what im talking about, this of course using the current theme/framed structure still... but im working on a newer better ui.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/13339474/fanart-subsonic.jpg

That screenshot is a pretty good selling point for your idea. Do you know how good coverage they have for more rare music?

Not sure actually...but it looks pretty full, im a member as well to help fill in missing music art.

another good source for information is theaudiodb.com ... checked that out much?

Nah, I hadn't heard of either of them before. So that's interesting information.

I would so support this.. I am used to getting art like this for my movies using Plex and would love to see this in MC.

cody_r_d wrote:I would so support this.. I am used to getting art like this for my movies using Plex and would love to see this in MC.

yup i'm a xbmc/plesk user myself, that's what made me think of it.

Headphones ( https://github.com/rembo10/headphones#readme ) integration somehow could be cool too

sigel wrote:

cody_r_d wrote:I would so support this.. I am used to getting art like this for my movies using Plex and would love to see this in MC.

yup i'm a xbmc/plesk user myself, that's what made me think of it.

Headphones ( https://github.com/rembo10/headphones#readme ) integration somehow could be cool too

Glad to see that Headphones is still getting updated. That would be an awesome integration.

fanart.tv seems to require paying for registering an API key (£30 per year). Does anyone happen to be a member already? PM me.