Use YouTube video thumbnail as track art

I noticed YouTube connector doesn’t try to parse track art in anyway and leaves it to song metadata (which is not available sometimes). I was thinking it might be a nice idea to use YouTube thumbnail as a fallback strategy, but the logic of song.getTrackArt seems to do the opposite (which is fine in most cases).

So the 2 points I want to discuss are:

• Is using YouTube thumbnail a good idea?
• If so, should it be fallback? and how should it be implemented to allow such strategy?

Connector.getTrackArt = function () {
	var id = $('meta[itemprop="videoId"]').attr('content');
	return 'https://img.youtube.com/vi/' + id + '/mqdefault.jpg'
}

[alexesprit]

I realized it is not a good itea to use external services to crop images. About 40% of scrobbles are from YouTube. I’m not sure if services won’t down because of lot of requests.

Adding a library to crop images is total overkill for such a small feature.

[alexesprit]

I also noticed rsz.io is down sometimes. That’s bad. 😦