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==Why is the CAA great and important?== |
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Right now, if you want to have cover art for the music you are listening to, or for an app or a website or for any other reason you can think of, you have three options: you can find each file manually (which takes ages), you can try to find an appropriate image via Google Images (which is unreliable) or you can use a site like Amazon (which has fairly strict terms of service that don't work for everyone). The Cover Art Archive allows people to access cover art that is accurate (and if it happens not to be, the problem can be solved by users) without having to jump through hoops. It also means that if you have a better file than what the service can provide, you can just go and upload it to the archive, without being restricted to the images provided by a specific source. |
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Providing a way for people to use cover art without silly ToS |
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"I imagine most people like cover art as illustrations of what they're listening to - the current methods of finding covers are basically manually, an app that tries to find an image via google images or via amazon. the former takes ages, the middle one is unreliable and the latter is a total pita to code - so the caa makes it easy to get the images (just an mbid if you want the front, mbid + json parser to access them all), the images will be accurate (and if not, then our data needs fixing :P) and there's no jumping through hoops like with amazon. and not only do we have the front, you can look at all the other images too, so if you're listening to a cd, you don't have to dig out the case to look at the booklet, you can look at a digital version :P" |
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Revision as of 21:29, 15 November 2012
Why is the CAA great and important?
Right now, if you want to have cover art for the music you are listening to, or for an app or a website or for any other reason you can think of, you have three options: you can find each file manually (which takes ages), you can try to find an appropriate image via Google Images (which is unreliable) or you can use a site like Amazon (which has fairly strict terms of service that don't work for everyone). The Cover Art Archive allows people to access cover art that is accurate (and if it happens not to be, the problem can be solved by users) without having to jump through hoops. It also means that if you have a better file than what the service can provide, you can just go and upload it to the archive, without being restricted to the images provided by a specific source.
Archival
Data verification
So you can tag your music files with good-quality images instead of random crap that amazon has.
because looking at cover art is cool and with the caa you can do it anywhere!
