Discord Rich Presence : Display album cover

[Kayn017]

Hello !

Is it possible to display album cover in the Discord Rich Presence ? I remember it worked with Jellyfin on Sonixd 😄

[jeffvli]

The problem with the existing implementation (that Sonixd used) is that this would only work only Jellyfin and if it is publicly accessible via reverse proxy. I'm thinking of adding an integration with lastfm to fetch and display the image from them rather than use the server itself.

[iiPythonx]

In addition to Last.FM, if you have MusicBrainz information embedded in the file (and you're able to read it), then you could use the Cover Art Archive as a possible fallback.

[JortRoelofs]

Both retrieving album covers from LastFM or MusicBrainz are good ideas I think. I'd like to suggest another idea on how to achieve this. Before switching to Navidrome and Feishin I used MusicBee and the Discord Rich Presence plugin achieved showing album covers by uploading them to Imgur. The source can be found here.

[informaticker]

LastFM is probably the best way, as it's in my experience pretty fast (made an RPC client for LastFM).
Uploading to Imgur is pretty inefficient as the image already exists in the web. We don't have to clutter some services storage with our cover images.

[EvilSquirrelGuy]

Since it's been a couple months since this issue was active, I'll just put this here in case anyone's wondering how to re-enable this feature.

As a temporary (and very hacky) solution, I've found a hidden option in settings that re-enables the behaviour from sonixd where the discord rpc is updated with the track's cover image (only on jellyfin servers accessible via reverse proxy). Currently working on 0.7.1.

To enable this option paste the following into the console in developer tools (Ctrl+Shift+I):

let modifiableSettings = JSON.parse(localStorage.store_settings);
modifiableSettings.state.discord.showServerImage = true; // replace with false to disable option
localStorage.store_settings = JSON.stringify(modifiableSettings);

This directly modifies the settings state in local storage, so far I haven't had any issues with it, but idk what I'm doing so run it at your own risk lol.

[mihawk90]

We don't have to clutter some services storage with our cover images.

While that's true, I'd assume that imgur has an API endpoint to delete an image (similar to how they allow it on the web frontend), so that could be called when the track/album playback has ended.

However, I do agree that this is probably not an ideal solution.
CoverArtArchive/MusicBrainz and last.fm would be the way to go as mentioned before. Fanart.tv would be another option, although I haven't checked their policy on embedding/hotlinking these images. Also their website displays 400x400 images (which would be enough for RPC to reduce load on their servers), but I don't know if those smaller preview images are returned via the API. edit: API docs say "If you want to get a smaller preview of an image simply replace fanart with preview in the assets link", so yes it's possible. Still don't know about using it as an embed though.
Imgur could be a last-ditch effort if all else fails, but at that point it's also questionable whether it's worth the effort.

[jackmerrill]

I've created a PR with basic functionality: #817

Works perfectly, just requires a Last.fm API key.

[Infinidoge]

For people who do have Jellyfin behind a reverse proxy, is it still possible to show art through that? I have some albums with tracks that have individual song covers that are different from each other, which last.fm doesn't support to my knowledge.

[EvilSquirrelGuy]

Yeah, works fine for me (nginx with SSL using Cloudflare, jellyfin 10.9.11). I think as long as discord can resolve the image URL it'll be fine.

[Infinidoge]

Jellyfin 10.9.11, SSL using Let's Encrypt, image URL copied from the web UI embeds in Discord just fine. However, enabling showServerImage by editing local storage doesn't seem to work. My guess is it's just not saving the setting, so I can't get it to actually start including it.

[UlyssesZh]

@Infinidoge I have the same demand as yours. What is this showServerImage setting? I want to try that.

[iiPythonx]

@UlyssesZh See #341 (comment).