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Can't SB1.1.1 fetch an album art and save it directly in /artist-album.jpg? SB0.7 did...

why can't SB 1.1.1 fetch album art (e.g. from last.fm or amazon) and save it automatically in a "artist-album-front.jpg" file? when I had SB 0.7 it did, but then I had Album Art Manager add-on installed, and I suspect it was it to gave me that possibility...
Currently Album Art Manager Add-on is unsupported by 1.x because most of its features have been added directly to Songbird. But that feature to save album art in a jpg file in the directory instead of metadata didn't make its way...

I know that users are split into two: iPod users want images stored in metadata, while others (the ones that listen to music mostly from their PCs) that have their library already organized in folders with /artist/album and would prefer a single high quality .jpg file instead of 15 small images in the metadata.

Pros and cons of art-in-metadata:
the cover travels with your file, is displayed in portable mp3 players and iPods;
images are 250x250 px and low-quality;
a single instance of the same image in every track of the same album;
for a library of 10.000 files, each with a 200k cover inside, this means 2 GB more than needed.

Pros and cons of art-in-file:
biggest resolution and quality of images;
a single image for all the tracks of the same album;
less occupation of hard drive space;
covers are no more delivered with your file, and won't show in iPods and other mp3 players that support cover showing.

But as you can see, that's just a matter of personal taste and habits, so I suggest to put an option "save art in: [metadata/jpg file]" (in Tools/preferences; i messed a bit with about:config and -without a guide- it's impossible to understand the effect and meaning of every single option...) and let the user choose what's best for him...
 
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