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Album cover should be better
This happens quite often, unfortunately. I think when the app can not find the right cover art, it should display the radio station logo it is playing and if that is not available, it could display the Cuterdio logo or a question mark.
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I think that the app is guessing the album title in combination with the artists name when some data is not available. Just now I saw the app made a song by Boyzone transform into a Boyz II Men cover art and added the album title of a Boyz II Men album with it.
So the app is guessing things when the app should be precise with the data it has. That's why I would like to see the app handle missing data with a default image (question mark or 'not available' text) in place of the cover art. And the app should not fill in a 'related' album title when this data is actually not available, I think it's better to leave the album title empty in that case.
Exactly as Zonnev commented. The album name matches in all the mismatched artwork.
Just posting some samples as requested.
The problem I found is like this: I start listening to a web radio and the cover of the currently playing song appears almost immediately. So far so good. The web radio I like most (but also many others) use to play a short gingle with the radio’s name between each song and the song’s name changes, shortly, to the radio’s name (I know: annoying but it is speaker free and advertisement free, just music). Your app, then, tries to find a cover for the gingle, obviously failing and showing something totally unrelated. As soon as the new song starts playing, though, the gingle’s cover remains there, until the end of the new song, where the gingle plays again, the app shows again the gingle’s cover (the same as before, unrelated to anything) and everything goes on like this. The result is that I can see only the gingle’s cover all the time. The radio giving this problem is: “Radio Bruno Gold” (this is the streaming url: https://stream2.xdevel.com/audio2s975355-55/stream/icecast.audio) My feeling is that after a song change, your app doesn’t “detect” a new song change before a certain time is passed. I would humbly suggest another way: lookup for a new cover only if the new song name is there for at least xx seconds.
Other problem: another web radio I use to listen to, sends song’s names in a strange format which your app doesn’t recognize. Instead of giving up showing covers, your app tries anyway to show something. The result, in this case, is that the covers are all totally unrelated to what is being played. In this case, the radio is: “RDS Relax” (streaming url: https://icstream.rds.radio/rdsrelax). I don’t think you want to plan to decode the song’s info sent by this station, but I think it could be useful to have the possibility to disable the cover search, station by station, with a switch in the station’s configuration.