album art/cover with http interface

[wlourf]

Hi all,

I try to get/save on my hard drive the albumart of what vlc is playing for displaying it with a http interface.

When cover is downloaded from vlc, it is saved in the file:

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/home/wlourf/.cache/vlc/art/artistalbum/Artist/Album/art.jpg

But when the cover is tagged inside the MP3 file, vlc can display the image but doesn't use the cache folder.

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[0x26a0800] main playlist debug: Album art is local file, no need to cache [0x26a0800] main playlist debug: found art for MySong in cache

So is there a way to retrieve the album art from vlc with the http interface or with Lua (I've only saw arturl from metas tags in Lua) or something else ....?

thanks in advance (vlc 1.1.3)