User:Reosarevok/CAABlurb

Why is the CAA great and important?

Archival

Data verification

Providing a way for people to use cover art without silly ToS

"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"

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!