• Dynamically resizeable thumbnails
• Thumbnail information
• Sort by Name, Size, Source, Type, and Page
• Filter results under or over a specified size, or by type (front, back, etc.), or by maximum results for each source
• Substitution syntax path to save images
• Local files search that matches save pattern
• Enable or disable scripts from the command line
• New strongly typed interface-based script model; write compiled scripts in any .net language
• Backwards compatible with existing scripts
• Backwards compatible with existing command line parameters, including old CoverDownloader parameters.
• Analyse files to find Artists and Albums from tags, and check if album art is already present.
• Analyse folder and file names to find Artist and Album names based on a path pattern, and check for album art.
• Read your foobar2000 media library or playlists to find Artists and Albums, and check for album art.
• Checks for existing album art embedded in file tags.
• Queue up multiple searches to occur sequentially.
• Automatically download album art that matches set criteria for several albums as a batch.
• Show previews windows to compare art side by side, zooming and panning to check details.
• Many, many scripts included. (I would seriously not recommend using all of them at once, choose the ones that suit you best.)
• Prioritised searching - can set some sources to always search, and some to only search if the first ones didn't find anything.

Does Album Art Downloader XUI only work with mp3s?  I tried pointing the file browser at my collection of flac files and it didn't find any albums.

Thanks,

Max

Does it handle more than 50 albums at a time yet?

Hi,

I still use the old version on my old notebook for performance reasons. I hadn't used it for some weeks, and yesterday the discogs script failed with the following warning:

Retrieving Art Failed
Capacity must be positive
parameter name: capacity

I thought that the script was outdated, so i copied the discogs-script from the .zip of the XUI-version. It compiled without problems, but I still get the same error message.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks,
frncle

Discogs script seems to be working fine for me. Can you post the artist and album you searched for?

Alex

The preview pictures do appear, but as soon as I try to preview or save them, I get the error message (or a connection time out in some cases...). Amazon works perfectly...

frncle

You could try using the XUI one and seeing if the same problem occurs with that. I'm afraid I'm not going to be investigating or fixing bugs in the old version, though.

can this be used with iTunes? http://www.thejosher.net/iTunes/

# refs: ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll System.Windows.Forms
namespace CoverSources
import System.Xml
import System.Drawing
import util
import ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib

class iTMS:
	static def GetPageSecret(url as string):
		request as System.Net.HttpWebRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(url)
		request.UserAgent="iTunes/7.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4.7)"
		request.Headers.Add("X-Apple-Tz","7200")
		request.Headers.Add("X-Apple-Store-Front","143457")
		request.Headers.Add("Accept-Language","en-us, en;q=0.50")
		request.Headers.Add("Accept-Encoding","gzip, x-aes-cbc")
		response = request.GetResponse()
		return response.GetResponseStream()
	static SourceName as string:
		get: return "iTunes Music Store"
	static SourceVersion as decimal:
		get: return 0.1
	static def GetThumbs(coverart,artist,album):
		x=System.Xml.XmlDocument()
		t=GetPageSecret("http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/coverArtMatch?an="+EncodeUrl(artist)+"&pn="+EncodeUrl(album))
		x.Load(ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.GZip.GZipInputStream(t))
		tags=x.GetElementsByTagName("dict")
		if tags.Count==0:
			return
		url=""
		albumname=album
		for tag in tags[0].ChildNodes:
			if tag.InnerText=="cover-art-url":
				url=tag.NextSibling.InnerText
			if tag.InnerText=="playlistName":
				albumname=tag.NextSibling.InnerText
		if url.Length>0:
			coverart.SetCountEstimate(1)
			coverart.AddThumb(GetPageSecret(url),albumname,600,600,null)
	static def GetResult(param):
		return null

Also the script itself's probably not compatible with Alex's modifications, any changes necessary should be slight.

Warning: gzinflate() [function.gzinflate]: data error in /home/josh/public_html/iTunes/index.php on line 122

It won't actually download any art, though, unfortunately. However, trying a few searches on http://www.thejosher.net/iTunes/, including his example, shows that he can't download any art either:

Quote

Warning: gzinflate() [function.gzinflate]: data error in /home/josh/public_html/iTunes/index.php on line 122

Oh well.

Alex

That's rather odd, his script works fine for me. What country are you in? Is there an iTMS in your country? Maybe that's the problem, we recently got iTMS here in New Zealand. Does this link work for you?  http://a1.phobos.apple.com/r10/Music/32/a3...zi.dbjwyonx.jpg
For me it only works in firefox, for some reason. BTW the quality is amazing, better than I've seen from any other source, it's definately not a scan.

Edit: Noticed that the problem you quoted occurred on his webserver, so country shouldn't affect it, still, odd that it's working perfectly here.

url = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("\\.enc\\.jpg\\?.*").Replace(url, ".jpg")

# refs: ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll System.Windows.Forms
namespace CoverSources
import System.Xml
import System.Drawing
import util

class iTMS:
	static def GetPageSecret(url as string):
		request as System.Net.HttpWebRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(url)
		request.UserAgent="iTunes/7.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4.7)"
		request.Headers.Add("X-Apple-Tz","7200")
		request.Headers.Add("X-Apple-Store-Front","143457")
		request.Headers.Add("Accept-Language","en-us, en;q=0.50")
		request.Headers.Add("Accept-Encoding","gzip, x-aes-cbc")
		response = request.GetResponse()
		return response.GetResponseStream()
	static SourceName as string:
		get: return "iTunes Music Store"
	static SourceVersion as decimal:
		get: return 0.2
	static def GetThumbs(coverart,artist,album):
		x=System.Xml.XmlDocument()
		t=GetPageSecret("http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/coverArtMatch?an="+EncodeUrl(artist)+"&pn="+EncodeUrl(album))
		x.Load(ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.GZip.GZipInputStream(t))
		tags=x.GetElementsByTagName("dict")
		if tags.Count==0:
			return
		url=""
		albumname=album
		for tag in tags[0].ChildNodes:
			if tag.InnerText=="cover-art-url":
				url=tag.NextSibling.InnerText
			if tag.InnerText=="playlistName":
				albumname=tag.NextSibling.InnerText
		if url.Length>0:
			url = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("\\.enc\\.jpg\\?.*").Replace(url, ".jpg")
			coverart.SetCountEstimate(1)
			coverart.AddThumb(url,albumname,-1,-1,null)
	static def GetResult(param):
		return null

Hmmm, using it with the old version (again...), I get the following message in the iTMS column:
Error GZIP header, first magic byte doesn't match...

Too bad...
frncle

# refs: ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll
namespace CoverSources
import System.Xml
import System.Drawing
import util

class iTMS:
	static def GetPageSecret(url as string):
		request as System.Net.HttpWebRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(url)
		request.UserAgent="iTunes/7.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4.7)"
		request.Headers.Add("X-Apple-Tz","7200")
		request.Headers.Add("X-Apple-Store-Front","143457")
		request.Headers.Add("Accept-Language","en-us, en;q=0.50")
		request.Headers.Add("Accept-Encoding","gzip, x-aes-cbc")
		response = request.GetResponse()
		return response.GetResponseStream()
	static SourceName as string:
		get: return "iTunes Music Store"
	static SourceVersion as string:
		get: return "0.3"
	static SourceCreator as string:
		get: return "david_dl, Alex Vallat"
	static def GetThumbs(coverart,artist,album):
		x=System.Xml.XmlDocument()
		t=GetPageSecret("http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/coverArtMatch?an="+EncodeUrl(artist)+"&pn="+EncodeUrl(album))
		try:
			x.Load(ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.GZip.GZipInputStream(t))
		except e as ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.GZip.GZipException:
			return //Wasn't a zip, so art wasn't found
		
		tags=x.GetElementsByTagName("dict")
		if tags.Count==0:
			return
		url=""
		albumname=album
		for tag in tags[0].ChildNodes:
			if tag.InnerText=="cover-art-url":
				url=tag.NextSibling.InnerText
			if tag.InnerText=="playlistName":
				albumname=tag.NextSibling.InnerText
		if url.Length>0:
			url = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("\\.enc\\.jpg\\?.*").Replace(url, "")
			coverart.SetCountEstimate(1)
			coverart.AddThumb(url + ".170x170-75.jpg", albumname, -1, -1, url + ".jpg")
	static def GetResult(param):
		return param

Thanks, it seems to work for most albums, however if I search artist: Menomena, album: Friend and foe, it saves the thumbnail version, not the full-sized art. The same search works correctly on thejosher.net.

I suppose we could always use him as a middle-man, and do the searches through his site and grab the images off that, although I'd prefer not to.
Alex

        request.UserAgent="iTunes/7.4 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4.7)"
        request.Headers.Add("X-Apple-Tz","-21600")
        request.Headers.Add("X-Apple-Store-Front","143441")
        request.Headers.Add("Accept-Language","en-us, en;q=0.50")
        request.Headers.Add("Accept-Encoding","gzip, x-aes-cbc")