Sometimes users have added rather large Cover images (e.g. png 18 MB, png 35 MB and so on) as the album's main cover image to the database mp3tag's MusicBrainz source is using. Downloading these covers takes very long, sometimes up to 5 minutes
Would it be possible to check the file size before downloading the image and give the user an option to skip the download in that case?
An option to choose the size of the cover would be nice too. At least MusicBrainz offers the cover art in 250Ă250 Pixels, 500Ă500 Pixels, 1200Ă1200 Pixels and the original size.
The picture name for the various available sizes only change in the additional MBID-250.jpg or MBID-500.jpg or MBID-1200.jpg
Actually, in most cases when you do get these original sized images you NEED Photoshop. Because these mostly are completely unprocessed raw images from scanners / digital cameras. So just resizing them does not really help
This doesn't happen in "most cases", but from time to time you find such a raw image.
This leads to another feature request: Let the user choose the Cover Art TYPE
This way you could exclude the raw/unedited cover art that you need to manually crop first.
I have a plugin for MusicBee called âAlbum Art Downloaderâ. It was a real game-changer for me. It allows you to search the sources you specify for the artist and album given. Using it, I rarely download from MusicBrainz. My typical sources are iTunes, Qobuz, and Deezer for the basic cover-art. I retrieve scans from discogs to ensure that theyâre release-specific.