Mopidy-Local-Images is a Mopidy local library and Web extension that
allows Web clients access to album art embedded in local media files.
It does so by acting as a proxy between Mopidy's local scan
command and the actual local library provider being used. Images are
extracted from media files and stored as individual image files while
scanning, and corresponding image URIs are inserted into Mopidy data
models. Clients can then access these images through the Web
extension. All other requests are delegated to the actual local
library provider as-is.
Album art stored in separate files is also supported. External image files will be considered if they reside in the same directory as the scanned media files and file names match a configurable pattern.
Please note that support for local album art depends on whether your client supports album images as provided by Mopidy's data model. For example, some clients will ignore any images provided by this extension, and will retrieve album art from external services instead.
Mopidy-Local-Images can be installed using pip by running:
pip install Mopidy-Local-Images
Before starting Mopidy, you must change your configuration to switch to using Mopidy-Local-Images as your local library provider:
[local] library = images
By default, Mopidy-Local-Images delegates any requests to the standard
json local library provider. To use a third-party library, such
as Mopidy-Local-SQLite, you have to set this in the
local-images configuration section:
[local-images] library = sqlite
Once this has been set, you need to clear and re-scan your library for images to be extracted:
mopidy local clear mopidy local scan
This extension also provides some other configuration settings, but beware that these are subject to change for now:
[local-images] enabled = true # the actual local library provider to use library = json # the base URI for images; change this if you want to serve images # using an alternative Web server, or when accessing Mopidy through a # reverse proxy base_uri = /images/ # the directory where local image files are stored; if not set, # creates its own subdirectory in <core/data_dir> image_dir = # a list of file names to check for when searching for external album # art; may contain UNIX shell patterns, i.e. "*", "?", etc. album_art_files = *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.png
Copyright (c) 2014, 2015 Thomas Kemmer and contributors.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
With Mopidy v0.19, using this extension will slow down mopidy local
scan considerably, since every media file has to be scanned twice.
This should no longer be a problem in Mopidy v1.0 and later versions.