Subsonic 6.1.6 with New Artist Image Source

[bupkis]

Well, I suppose the forum is now so moribund that nobody has even noticed that a new update to Subsonic got pushed out yesterday.

I haven't upgraded but apparently it uses fanart.tv for artist images (since last.fm cut off free access to their API, I gather). Can anyone report on this? Is it only the artist images that it gets from fanart.tv, or does it also get album covers? So, when you add a cover, does it still search last.fm for them?

[CasN]

it still searches lastfm

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it still searches lastfm

I think that fantv has far less artist-images than last.fm.
So I am in doubt to update to the newest version because already cached last.fm-images still work here.
Does anyone know whether subsonic still reads existing last.fm-images too?

I fear with updating I get images for new added artists again but loose a lot of existing images.

[Immanuel]

it still searches lastfm

I think that fantv has far less artist-images than last.fm.
So I am in doubt to update to the newest version because already cached last.fm-images still work here.
Does anyone know whether subsonic still reads existing last.fm-images too?

I fear with updating I get images for new added artists again but loose a lot of existing images.

You wont loose any of thr existing lastfm artist covers. I checked it.
But fanarttv has a much smaler database, and in my eyes the whole homepage is bullshit.
I would say that for more than the half of my artists it has no image.

[gwynhfar]

All last.fm look like the above star, because last.fm stopped artist image service for third parties (like subsonic).

The new version 6.1.6 should not use last.fm for new artist images but look for another source. But here is my problem, I have to clean up all the 'stars' I got from last.fm, wich is always the same URL https://lastfm-img2.akamaized.net/i/u/300x300/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png.

How could I get rid of the stars and let subsonic start searching for new artist images?

Thank you in advance!

[gwynhfar]

I might have found an answer to my question, here is what I did:

In subsonic map I found the lastfm2cache map, I opened the map and cut all of the files and pasted them in a backup map (lastfm2cache-backup).

So now I had an empty lastfm2cache map, I stopped the subsonic server and restarted it.

I seems artist art (for most common artists) is now being downloaded from fanart.tv.

For example https://assets.fanart.tv/fanart/music/e9dfc148-d5f6-425e-b80b-f99ed2bd7c09/artistbackground/god-is-an-astronaut-50215d8db8e8c.jpeg


All the old artist images are now gone (back-upped) and are being replaced by new artist images, this was not the case when I used the old lastfm2cache mapping, because the image with the star (the default image) was overriding any new artist image.

I hope this was helpfull

[snohio]

Not that it will probably be taken care of, it would be super nice if it did.. The wording in the Artist Information section shows "Image courtesy of fanarttv.com." Thankfully that is not hotlinked, but should point to fanart.tv. fanarttv.com wants to install Chrome Plug Ins and Flash and other nefarious things.. Where's the git repo I can go do a quick PR. -Thanks!

[alexjgaspar]

Hi I was so looking forward to seeing the LastFM star replaced by actual artist images and was hoping this would work, but in the end, fanart.tv just doesn't have the images for my collection. Well, it has some but very few. So it's not a good source. I would like to add my own artist images from my hard drive. I have them stored individually for every artist in their main directory on my drive. For example I have:
Music/Aerosmith/...
artist.jpg

Get Your Wings/
Rocks/
Draw The Line/
Night In The Ruts/
Toys In The Attic/
etc.

I am not a developer so would like to somehow keep it simple but I can open a file in a text editor and type stuff. Can someone direct me to the file that would need to be altered to reflect my calls to the artist.jpg for each but still maintain the Last FM text that talks about the artist etc. And tell me what I should do so that instead of an image from LastFM or FanartTV for the artist, it pulls up my artist.jpg image housed in every Artris Directory (not album directory). I am on a Windows 10 server. I would certainly appreciate the help with this bit of code. Thank you.

[alexjgaspar]

Also - I haven't found a single instance where an image was displayed from fanart. Also, in the box where it credits the image ist states "Image courtesy of fanarttv.com." The actual site, I thought, was fanart.tv Fanarttv.com is actually a compromised and infected site that has nothing to do with art or music. I'm thinking this should be modified to reflect the correct site. Just my two cets worth on that.

[CasN]

you can correc that in 2 scripts:
subsonic\WEB-INF\jsp\albumMain.jsp
subsonic\WEB-INF\jsp\artistMain.jsp

[nohart]

Hi I was so looking forward to seeing the LastFM star replaced by actual artist images and was hoping this would work, but in the end, fanart.tv just doesn't have the images for my collection. Well, it has some but very few. So it's not a good source. I would like to add my own artist images from my hard drive. I have them stored individually for every artist in their main directory on my drive. For example I have:
Music/Aerosmith/...
artist.jpg

Get Your Wings/
Rocks/
Draw The Line/
Night In The Ruts/
Toys In The Attic/
etc.

I am not a developer so would like to somehow keep it simple but I can open a file in a text editor and type stuff. Can someone direct me to the file that would need to be altered to reflect my calls to the artist.jpg for each but still maintain the Last FM text that talks about the artist etc. And tell me what I should do so that instead of an image from LastFM or FanartTV for the artist, it pulls up my artist.jpg image housed in every Artris Directory (not album directory). I am on a Windows 10 server. I would certainly appreciate the help with this bit of code. Thank you.

I would like to be able to do this too. In the past I had a picture called band.png in the root folder of each artist. That seemed to work or it was a coincidence that the same picture would show up. But now its sporadic. Sometimes the picture shows up and for other artist it show a broken link picture. I don't know how to fix it.

Update - I was able to fix some of the round artist pictures by deleting the contents of lastfmcache and lastfmcache2. But some pictures are now coming up with a generic band picture called - 4040/icons/generic-artist.jpg I wish I could have the option to pick my own.

[3Dscrewer]

I'm using Subsonic and Airsonic ....
I don't know if this is helpful but since airsonic is an subsonic fork of an earlier version, this may probably work, but I'm a noob in programming

look here it is for airsonic but I guess it is not too different in subsonic.

https://codepen.io/lawrencenull/pen/NVWWwR