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Finding music cover with search engine


JHarris

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Hi,

 

What's the best parameters to optimize music covers searching with Bing Images or Google Images,i'm using a radio shoutcast plugin written in python and using these parameters works but results are not perfect.

 

Bing

searchpara = title of the aired song

url = 'http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=%s&FORM=HDRSC2' % quote(searchpara)

Google

sTitle = title of the aired song

url = "http://images.google.de/images?q=%s&btnG=Bilder-Suche" % quote(sTitle)

 

Is there any additional parameters to refine search results ?

I would like to exclude big images and small images (expected < 300px and <600px) and target music covers if possible.

 

Any advice ?

 

Regards

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4 hours ago, masterupc said:

First try with Toto - Africa

 

http://www.albumart.org/index.php?searchkk=toto+-+africa&itempage=1&newsearch=1&searchindex=Music

Result

Sorry! No results for

 

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31 minutes ago, JHarris said:

First try with Toto - Africa

 


http://www.albumart.org/index.php?searchkk=toto+-+africa&itempage=1&newsearch=1&searchindex=Music

Result


Sorry! No results for

 

 

Yeah , it's not working...

You can search here... not only covers...

https://genius.com/

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Thank you but it doesn't give better result than Bing or Google.
Btw the goal is to get the best result from Bing or Google with the best optimized parameters in an automated way with no human intervention (plugin works alone).

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Hi there i dont know if this will help your plugin. But i use this site. You can scroll down the website to find the links for itunes search api and their github.

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8 hours ago, 1n5u9r said:

Hi there i dont know if this will help your plugin. But i use this site. You can scroll down the website to find the links for itunes search api and their github.

Thank you sounds good will look into it

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Shoutcast radio stations only return song title and artist aired this way : Artist - Title

so it's the only parameters i have to deal with

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22 hours ago, teodz1984 said:

Thank you

I had a look on this page, unfortunatly most of of the streams don't provide all the fields, as said on wiki page

Actual SHOUTcast 2 sources are not guaranteed to return the majority of the fields
shown but provision is provided for them to be sent if detected from source media.

I have to deal with a third party solution to retrieve covers from streams,.

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