i've now decided to take samples8 out of beta. i've put up a basic setup guide online. it can be read here. the site needs a lot more work before it's done. 

the download will still be hosted on dropbox but it has a slightly different name

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2280132...sh/samples8.zip

it's possible to automatic retrieve artist pictures from last.fm in the biography view plugin like the script provided by marc2003 ?

Quote from: orbtwin on 2014-11-10 13:00:43

it's possible to automatic retrieve artist pictures from last.fm in the biography view plugin like the script provided by marc2003 ?

Yes.

@samithaj, i've started the customisation guide with a couple of basics but i've not done the bit about merging multiple scripts yet. i'll do that in the next day or 2.

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@samithaj, i've started the customisation guide with a couple of basics but i've not done the bit about merging multiple scripts yet. i'll do that in the next day or 2.

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Folders without image/txt files deleted: 1147 [I'm assume these are empty folders where last.fm failed to provide an artist photo?]

Of those folders to keep, 7425 were matched against artists in your library and moved successfully.

There were 874 errors moving folders for artists in your library.

There are 1767 folder(s) remaining that don't match artists in your library. [What does this mean? Artists with different names spellings/changes/deleted songs/or what?

6GB? **** me. foobar must have ground to a halt when you ran that? 

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Folders without image/txt files deleted: 1147 [I'm assume these are empty folders where last.fm failed to provide an artist photo?]

yep.

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Of those folders to keep, 7425 were matched against artists in your library and moved successfully.

this is good!

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There were 874 errors moving folders for artists in your library.

this is not so good. have you tried running it again just to see if the same number fail? i'll post another version in a bit that will give more detailed logging information so i can investigate it.

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There are 1767 folder(s) remaining that don't match artists in your library. [What does this mean? Artists with different names spellings/changes/deleted songs/or what?

all these folders were generated by you playing artists that don't exist in your library. i do have another script that attempts to work around that, i'll post it up in a bit.

Do you mean, that the CRC coded folder was generated and then the artist name got changed or deleted later?

there is a note about that on this page.

Folders with image/txt files to keep: 1767
There were 874 errors moving folders for artists in your library.
There are 1767 folder(s) remaining that don't match artists in your library.

@hurricane, try this in your panel... https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2280132...emp/migrate.txt

any errors should be reported in the foobar console. i don't need to see them all - just a few will do.

file>preferences>tools>biography server>artist tab. specify path in the image box and it works automatically??

you can't change the extension because the component saves the file as-is. you'll have to account for this with multiple $if $fileexists statements in your info panel. (or you might look to see if it supports wildcards - i have no idea)

edit: that biography view component is weird. when i play a new artist, it displays the image for the previous one?? if it takes time to download a new one, i'd rather see a blank panel than the wrong image.

//Artists Pictures
$puts(pos.horizon2,$muldiv(%_height%,4,7))
$puts(pos.shadow2,100)
$puts(pos.artx2,$sub($div(%_width%,2),868))
$puts(pos.arty2,$sub($get(pos.horizon2),167))
$puts(path.noartist,/images/cui/noartist.png)
$puts(path.artistPath,$if($fileexists(Z:\artists pictures\%artist%.jpg),Z:\artists pictures\%artist%.jpg,$get(path.noartist)))
$puts(text.noartist,no picture)
$puts(text.artist,$if($fileexists(Z:\artists pictures\%artist%.jpg),%artist%,$get(text.noartist)))

Case 1: Is your migrate.txt script case-sensitive?

And i don't know to tweak my code to show both types of files...

$puts(path.artistPath,$if($fileexists(Z:\artists pictures\%artist%.jpg),Z:\artists pictures\%artist%.jpg,$if($fileexists(Z:\artists pictures\%artist%.png),Z:\artists pictures\%artist%.png,$get(path.noartist)))

Quote from: hurricane on 2014-11-10 22:13:27

Case 1: Is your migrate.txt script case-sensitive?

not the migrate script but unfortunately the old thumbs/now playing script was. every time you changed the case of an artist tag, a new folder would have been created because i used the $crc32 function without using $upper or $lower. now i'm using actual artist names, it's no longer an issue.

the fact my updated script found more folders to move successfully does indicate that you still have lots of artists in library tagged with different cases. the reason the migrate script failed before is because the "move" folder function i used doesn't work when the new folder already exists. i changed it to "copy" instead and that's why we got better results.

edit: you might try foo_facets. that actually lists the same artists with different case separately. i thought album list did this as well but i'm mistaken on that - unless it used to but has been changed

obviously trimming spaces will affect the folder naming - infact my new script would have that same issue. i guess i could trim the leading/trailing spaces when creating folders. please don't tell me there are artists out there who use that intentionally. 

i'm at bit of a loss to explain those "path not found" errors. 

"$ifgreater($len(%artist%),$len($trim(%artist%)),1,0)" IS 1