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Anyone know of a API to fetch high quality music artist and album art? I've been meaning to make something which sniffs whats playing on my Chromecast and displ

Anyone know of a API to fetch high quality music artist and album art? I've been meaning to make something which sniffs whats playing on my Chromecast and display it on a screen but I've had difficulty finding a good source of art. Thank you for the suggestions :)

OJFord 5y ago
Spotify? Or is that not high quality enough? https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/ https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc... (Or there's a bunch of others in the submission under 'music'.)
- nullify88 5y ago
  When querying the chromecast for now playing media when using Spotify Connect, the response contains spotify album art urls. I haven't verified whether its the same as directly querying the spotify api but at first glance the images weren't as big as I'd like them to be. I'd also like a variety of artist images as a backdrop which is hit and miss. Thanks for the suggestion though.
nonameiguess 5y ago
I won't speak to the quality, but that's what libmusicbrainz is for: https://github.com/metabrainz/libmusicbrainz https://github.com/metabrainz/libmusicbrainz
tfsh 5y ago
Someone else mentioned Spotify, you could try looking into Last.fm[1] (which queries from a number of different sources - spotify, youtube, soundcloud and user contributed artwork). 1: https://www.last.fm/api/show/album.getInfo https://www.last.fm/api/show/album.getInfo - looks like it provides three image resolutions - small, medium and large.
easrng 5y ago
The iTunes has an amazing free API: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/iTuneSearchAPI/index.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Au... By default the images it returns are small but you can get the full res ones easily. Here's some example code (not mine): https://github.com/bendodson/itunes-artwork-finder/blob/master/api.php https://github.com/bendodson/itunes-artwork-finder/blob/mast...
r3trohack3r 5y ago
I used Deezer for https://audile.app https://audile.app and have been really happy.
brdbkr 5y ago
The Cover Art Archive[1] is a joint project between the Internet Archive and MusicBrainz, whose goal is to make cover art images available to everyone on the Internet in an organised and convenient way. [1] https://coverartarchive.org/ https://coverartarchive.org/
scns 5y ago
I usually get mine manually from [0]. A lot of work, but i get to choose the cover i like best. [0] https://discogs.com https://discogs.com
- Minor49er 5y ago
  Do you at least use their API or data dump? http://www.discogs.com/developers/ http://www.discogs.com/developers/ http://data.discogs.com/ http://data.discogs.com/

OJFord 5y ago

Spotify? Or is that not high quality enough? https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/ https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc... (Or there's a bunch of others in the submission under 'music'.)

nullify88 5y ago
When querying the chromecast for now playing media when using Spotify Connect, the response contains spotify album art urls. I haven't verified whether its the same as directly querying the spotify api but at first glance the images weren't as big as I'd like them to be. I'd also like a variety of artist images as a backdrop which is hit and miss. Thanks for the suggestion though.

nonameiguess 5y ago

I won't speak to the quality, but that's what libmusicbrainz is for: https://github.com/metabrainz/libmusicbrainz https://github.com/metabrainz/libmusicbrainz

tfsh 5y ago

Someone else mentioned Spotify, you could try looking into Last.fm[1] (which queries from a number of different sources - spotify, youtube, soundcloud and user contributed artwork). 1: https://www.last.fm/api/show/album.getInfo https://www.last.fm/api/show/album.getInfo - looks like it provides three image resolutions - small, medium and large.

easrng 5y ago

The iTunes has an amazing free API: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/iTuneSearchAPI/index.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Au... By default the images it returns are small but you can get the full res ones easily. Here's some example code (not mine): https://github.com/bendodson/itunes-artwork-finder/blob/master/api.php https://github.com/bendodson/itunes-artwork-finder/blob/mast...

r3trohack3r 5y ago

I used Deezer for https://audile.app https://audile.app and have been really happy.

brdbkr 5y ago

The Cover Art Archive[1] is a joint project between the Internet Archive and MusicBrainz, whose goal is to make cover art images available to everyone on the Internet in an organised and convenient way. [1] https://coverartarchive.org/ https://coverartarchive.org/

scns 5y ago

I usually get mine manually from [0]. A lot of work, but i get to choose the cover i like best. [0] https://discogs.com https://discogs.com

Minor49er 5y ago
Do you at least use their API or data dump? http://www.discogs.com/developers/ http://www.discogs.com/developers/ http://data.discogs.com/ http://data.discogs.com/