Photos of artists?

[Matti Zemack - List]

Hi all,

I'm not sure. But I remember when I first came in contact with MB a few
years ago (working for BBC) that there was links to photos of the
artists/groups. This could be found with the artist-MBID.
Or did I just dream this up?
I suppose the rights etc. etc. might be a problem.

Thankful for any help on this matter.

Best Regards,
Matti Zemack, Stockholm, Sweden



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[Oliver Charles-2]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Matti Zemack - List
<listmail@...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm not sure. But I remember when I first came in contact with MB a few
> years ago (working for BBC) that there was links to photos of the
> artists/groups. This could be found with the artist-MBID.
> Or did I just dream this up?
> I suppose the rights etc. etc. might be a problem.
>
> Thankful for any help on this matter.

You may be interested in http://blog.musicbrainz.org/?p=380 -- it will
be nice when this really takes off.

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[Philipp Wolfer-2]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Oliver Charles <oliver.g.charles@...> wrote:

You may be interested in http://blog.musicbrainz.org/?p=380 -- it will
be nice when this really takes off.

I think for this to take of it must be promoted more. Maybe MusicBrainz could show tagged photos from flickr together with a note how to add more photos. It would be pretty cool.

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[Robert Kaye]

On Oct 8, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Philipp Wolfer wrote:

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Oliver Charles <oliver.g.charles@...> wrote:

You may be interested in http://blog.musicbrainz.org/?p=380 -- it will
be nice when this really takes off.

I think for this to take of it must be promoted more. Maybe MusicBrainz could show tagged photos from flickr together with a note how to add more photos. It would be pretty cool. 

Agreed. But we must keep our eyes on getting NGS out the door -- after that someone prod me to make the machine tags much more visible!

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[Matti Zemack - List]

> Hi all,
>
> I'm not sure. But I remember when I first came in contact with MB a few
> years ago (working for BBC) that there was links to photos of the
> artists/groups. This could be found with the artist-MBID.
> Or did I just dream this up?
> I suppose the rights etc. etc. might be a problem.
>
> Thankful for any help on this matter.

Hi again,

Thanks for all help on this matter. I basically ended up using the Wikipedia
link and searching the Wikipedia page for the, usually on the right hand,
artist photo. Not robust, but works good enough for my demo purpose.

If anyone is interested, here is my home crafted scruffy PHP/regexp for this
purpose:

#Function for getting WIkipedia-page
function gettingPage($adress) {
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $adress);
    $resultPage = curl_exec($ch);
    return($resultPage);
}

#Function for getting artist photo from wikipedia-page
function extractingPhotoFromWiki($fullPage) {
    preg_match_all('|infobox vcard.*?<img alt="" src="(.*?)" width|s',
$fullPage, $matches);
    return($matches[1][0]);
   
#ExampleReturn('http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Dan
ielPowterJan09.jpg/220px-DanielPowterJan09.jpg'), usually width="220"
height="330".

}

/
Regards
Matti Zemack, Internetljud, Stockholm, Sweden



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