• Can target specific image size
• Support JPEG and PNG formats
• Currently support 4 cover sources:
  
  • Last.fm
  • Google Images
  • ecover.to
  • Amazon.com
• Smart sorting algorithm to select THE best cover for a given query, using several factors: source reliability, image format, image size, image similarity with reference cover, etc.
• Automatically crunch images with optipng or jpegoptim (can save 30% of filesize without any loss of quality, great for portable players)
• Cache search results locally for faster future search
• Do everything to avoid getting blocked by the sources: hide user-agent and automatically take care of rate limiting
• Automatically convert/resize image if needed

sacad 'artist' 'album' 900 cover.jpg

• For Windows users I have created a binary archive
• For Linux & Mac, see here

>sacad.exe "Queen" "The Game" 900 cover.jpg

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\lxml\cssselect.py", line 16, in <module>
  File "C:\Python\32-bit\3.3\lib\importlib\_bootstrap.py", line 1567, in _find_and_load
  File "C:\Python\32-bit\3.3\lib\importlib\_bootstrap.py", line 1531, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ImportError: No module named 'cssselect'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console3.py", line 27, in <module>
  File "sacad.py", line 28, in <module>
  File "C:\Python\32-bit\3.3\lib\importlib\_bootstrap.py", line 1567, in _find_and_load
  File "C:\Python\32-bit\3.3\lib\importlib\_bootstrap.py", line 1534, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\lxml\cssselect.py", line 18, in <module>
ImportError: cssselect seems not to be installed. See http://packages.python.org
/cssselect/

Can't you make a single exe for windows? Like youtube-dl has?

Currently testing this out on Windows 8.1 64-bit.

Tried
sacad "Michael Gees" "improviSatie" 1500 cover1.jpg
sacad "Christoph Prégardien  Michael Gees" "Die schöne Müllerin" 1500 cover2.jpg
sacad "Christoph Pregardien  Michael Gees" "Schubert Die schöne Mullerin" 1500 cover3.jpgen symphony

Must be between Dquote  on Win

1 is work by Satie but I got a Beethoven symphony by Jan Willem de Vriend as result
2 doesn't work at all
3 returned the right composition by the wrong artists

• None of the reliable cover sources have the result with a resolution that high, as a result you get the first image from Google Images which satisfies that resolution but is unrelated.
  You have 3 solutions:
  
  • use the -d option, which to quote the help:
    
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    -d, --disable-low-quality-sources
                            Disable cover sources that may return unreliable
                            results (ie. Google Images). It will speed up
                            processing and improve reliability, but may fail to
                            find results for some difficult searches.

    
    In that case it would juste tell you there is no result.
  • Lower the target resolution.
    I believe
    
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    sacad "Michael Gees" "improviSatie" 800 cover1.jpg

    returns the right result.
  • Tell SACAD that you target a high resolution, but are ready to make compromises if that criteria can not be satisfied, using the -t option:
    
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    -t SIZE_TOLERANCE_PRCT, --size-tolerance SIZE_TOLERANCE_PRCT
                            Tolerate this percentage of size difference with the
                            target size. Note that covers with size above or close
                            to the target size will still be preferred if
                            available

    
    In this example you target a 1500px resolution but are ready to accept a cover that is 70% smaller if there are no other results:
    
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    sacad "Michael Gees" "improviSatie" 1500 cover1.jpg -t 70 -d

• It seems to be a bug with accentuated chars, I'll look at this.
  In the meantime, the following command works:
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  sacad "Christoph Pregardien Michael Gees" "Die schone Mullerin" 1500 cover2.jpg -t 70 -d

• By removing the accent and running
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  sacad "Christoph Pregardien Michael Gees" "Schubert Die schone Mullerin" 1500 cover3.jpg -t 70

  I get the same result as 2), can you confirm this is not the result you want?

Here is a new Windows version that fixes searches with accentuated chars.

Additionnaly, to enable lossless image optimization, you can download optipng, and jpegoptim and add them to your path.

sacad "Christoph Prégardien Michael Gees" "Schubert Die schöne Müllerin" 1500 cover2.jpg -t 70
No cover at all
sacad "Christoph Pregardien Michael Gees" "Schubert Die schone Mullerin" 1500 cover3.jpg -t 70
right cover

sacad "Christoph Prégardien Michael Gees" "Schubert Die schöne Müllerin" 1500 cover2.jpg -v debug



C:\Users\Vincent\Downloads\sacad>sacad "Christoph Pr?gardien Michael Gees" "Schu
bert Die sch÷ne M?llerin" 1500 cover2.jpg -v debug
...

I have encountered just a couple problems.  Should I just post them as I encounter them?

This is a query I tried that resulted in an error.  It worked when I used a size of 500 but failed with a size of 1000, as shown below.
...

I use a BAT file edoted with Notepad

If I paste in CMD


C:\Users\Vincent\Downloads\sacad>sacad "Christoph Prégardien Michael Gees" "Schu
bert Die schöne Müllerin" 1500 cover2.jpg -v debug
...

Quote from: fluzzknock on 2014-04-19 19:11:39

I have encountered just a couple problems.  Should I just post them as I encounter them?

Yes, please do.
I have tested it for my own use on Linux with my library, but I need testers for other OS and contexts.

Quote from: fluzzknock on 2014-04-19 19:11:39

This is a query I tried that resulted in an error.  It worked when I used a size of 500 but failed with a size of 1000, as shown below.
...

I can not reproduce this problem.
Did you try with the last version I posted above?
If not, please do and let me know if you still have this error.

Yes, I encountered the problem with the latest version you posted.

Also, I'm not sure if this is intended for the script, but there was one cover where if I specified a size of 600 or 800 it would return a cover that was 700x700.  If I tried a value further of 400 or 900, it would resize to those values.  Does this seem correct?

I did not specify '-t' in any case.  Is there a tolerance that the script uses by default, or if you don't specify a '-t,' should it return a cover with the exact size you indicate?

Quote from: fluzzknock on 2014-04-20 21:58:46

Yes, I encountered the problem with the latest version you posted.

That's strange. From what I have found by googling the error, it can be a Python module (encodings.idna) that is not being included in the Windows build, however I checked in the last version I posted and it is definitely here.
I also tried the command you posted and it works on my Windows XP VM.
Does it always occur for that command or is it random?

Quote from: fluzzknock on 2014-04-20 21:58:46

Also, I'm not sure if this is intended for the script, but there was one cover where if I specified a size of 600 or 800 it would return a cover that was 700x700.  If I tried a value further of 400 or 900, it would resize to those values.  Does this seem correct?

I did not specify '-t' in any case.  Is there a tolerance that the script uses by default, or if you don't specify a '-t,' should it return a cover with the exact size you indicate?

The default size tolerance value (-t parameter) is 25%. If you want a file with the exact size you specified, you need to pass "-t 0".

Search with source 'LastFmCoverSource' failed: 400 Client Error: Bad Request

Hello,
thanks for this great downloader. Unfortunately i get since a few weeks the following errormessage for the LastFM source:

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Search with source 'LastFmCoverSource' failed: 400 Client Error: Bad Request

I am using the latest revision 1.2.5 from yesterday. May this be a problem with the ID?

Regards
Fux