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  1. MusicBrainz Server
  2. MBS-9286

Add support for hires cover art scrapped from iTunes web site

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      iTunes cover art is of much higher quality than Amazon's because it is more predictable and, I guess, it comes directly from official music distributors.

      If an iTunes link is added as relationship to a release, as I just did on https://musicbrainz.org/release/b142b0cc-6e97-4d29-b8ca-af9d5657ece5 , the MB server would have to scrap the iTunes page and find the cover art image URL, which would be:

       

      http://is1.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music1/v4/27/b2/e6/27b2e6f6-6b9b-114c-337b-5f0862b65da1/source/170x170bb.jpg

       

      This is a lowres 170×170 cover art image. But, if you change the last part of the URL for a deliberately big number, such as "3000x3000.jpg", you'll get the best resolution image, probably the highest resolution that the music distributor sent to Apple. In this case you'll get a 2400×2400 jpeg of 2MB size. Try it:

      http://is1.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music1/v4/27/b2/e6/27b2e6f6-6b9b-114c-337b-5f0862b65da1/source/3000x3000.jpg

      This is very predictable and never fails so I think it would be easy to implement on musicbrainz.org and very useful for the community.

      Thank you in advance

          [MBS-9286] Add support for hires cover art scrapped from iTunes web site

          Nicolás Tamargo added a comment -

          I don't think we have the right to display iTunes cover art like that, and us systematically taking it from iTunes and uploading it to the Internet Archive wouldn't be a good idea either. If someone wants to run a bot doing this, that would be fine (and in fact I think bots like that have been ran in the past).

          Nicolás Tamargo added a comment - I don't think we have the right to display iTunes cover art like that, and us systematically taking it from iTunes and uploading it to the Internet Archive wouldn't be a good idea either. If someone wants to run a bot doing this, that would be fine (and in fact I think bots like that have been ran in the past).

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