On Monday, 1 June 2020 16:37:08 UTC+10, Pete  wrote:
> In article , I wrote:
> >
> >While I'm here, I have another question...  I play back the files
> >several ways, but I was amused/startled/slightly-horrified that
> >when I use vlc, it pops up an image of an album cover for many
> >of the files!  What is it using to find that?  Some of the metadata
> >I added, I suppose.  Must be going to the cloud...
> >
> So, to close this out...
>
> To satisfy my curiosity, in the end I did some tcpdumping, and found
> that vlc is querying 'mb.videolan.org' (aka goldeneye.videolan.org)
> for the data.  The query it sends uses the 'Artist' and 'Title' tags
> I supplied when I created the file.  The answers seem to come back
> from musicbrainz.org.`
>
> Which means it's all open-source stuff, And I was chuffed to see
> that the html headers videolan returns all include good old
> "X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett" (:-))
>
>  -- Pete --

https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_CodeNames/

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Cheers,
Chris.

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