# Search fanart.tv

fanart.tv is an excellant source for artwork. Yate can extract album covers and CD artwork from the site.

In order to retrieve artwork from fanart.tv you must have a personal API key. The key can be acquired by registering at fanart.tv. You must then request a personal API key. Once you have the API key, paste it into the fanart.tv API Key field on the Preferences-Artwork panel.

If you are going to access artwork from this site you are strongly urged to contribute artwork as well.

The function is different from other artwork functions as it is based on MusicBrainz Ids as opposed to Album metadata. In order to use the functionality, Yate requires that tracks to be processed have MusicBrainz Release Ids. Any other MusicBrainz IDs that are required will be downloaded if necessary. Downloaded MusicBrainz IDs will be saved to the tracks regardless as to whether artwork gets downloaded. If you wish to load the required IDs when accessing MusicBrainz for a general data import, import the MusicBrainz Release Group Id and MusicBrainz Artist URLs. When extracting the artist URLs, this function honours the Preferences-MusicBrainz-Use per track artist URLs setting.

You can attempt to automatically retrieve the MusicBrainz Release Ids by enabling the Auto Import MusicBrainz Ids item on the Search for Artwork menu.

The following function variants are available:

Search for Album Cover at fanart.tv
  Downloads only album covers.
Search fanart...
  This variant allows you to specify what types and what quantity of artwork items can be downloaded.

Note that regardless as to which variant is run, the Search for Artwork, Only keep Largest Album Cover option can further constrain the number of album covers imported.