[GH-ISSUE #25] feature request: album cover #814

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opened 2026-05-23 00:58:11 +01:00 by JakeStanger · 4 comments

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Originally created by @Kranzes on GitHub (Jun 16, 2022).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/JakeStanger/mpd-discord-rpc/issues/25

It would be great if there was an option to have it fetch the appropriate album cover image from the internet and show it in the image box. Many Discord RPCs for music already do that.

Originally created by @Kranzes on GitHub (Jun 16, 2022). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/JakeStanger/mpd-discord-rpc/issues/25 It would be great if there was an option to have it fetch the appropriate album cover image from the internet and show it in the image box. Many Discord RPCs for music already do that.

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@JakeStanger commented on GitHub (Jun 16, 2022):

Hey, do you have any examples of other RPC clients that do that? I'd be willing to pick them apart and see if I can do what they're doing if they are. It's something I'd love to be able to implement, but I'm yet to find a way to do it.

As far as I've been able to tell, you'd need to require a separate application per user, and you'd have to have a whole OAuth system to auth with discord's dev portal, and constantly add/remove assets to the app registration.

@JakeStanger commented on GitHub (Jun 16, 2022): Hey, do you have any examples of other RPC clients that do that? I'd be willing to pick them apart and see if I can do what they're doing if they are. It's something I'd love to be able to implement, but I'm yet to find a way to do it. As far as I've been able to tell, you'd need to require a separate application per user, and you'd have to have a whole OAuth system to auth with discord's dev portal, and constantly add/remove assets to the app registration.

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@Kranzes commented on GitHub (Jun 16, 2022):

https://github.com/NextFire/apple-music-discord-rpc
https://github.com/wxllow/applemusicrp

@Kranzes commented on GitHub (Jun 16, 2022): <https://github.com/NextFire/apple-music-discord-rpc> <https://github.com/wxllow/applemusicrp>

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@JakeStanger commented on GitHub (Jun 16, 2022):

Interesting, thanks! From a quick glance it looks like you can pass the image file contents itself, which I had absolutely no idea about.

I'll have a crack at this later and see what I can do.

EDIT Not the image contents, literally any image URL directly!

@JakeStanger commented on GitHub (Jun 16, 2022): Interesting, thanks! From a quick glance it looks like you can pass the image file contents itself, which I had absolutely no idea about. I'll have a crack at this later and see what I can do. **EDIT** Not the image contents, literally any image URL directly!

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@JakeStanger commented on GitHub (Jun 16, 2022):

Done! And if you add MusicBrainz tags to your tracks (using Picard or similar) it should be super fast/reliable.

@JakeStanger commented on GitHub (Jun 16, 2022): Done! And if you add MusicBrainz tags to your tracks (using Picard or similar) it should be super fast/reliable.