PerfectTUNES
Reply #8 – 2012-07-24 15:20:17
Haven't logged in for ages, but thought I would because I tried this out and I think it has potential. Depending on how the library is tagged, determines whether or not album art is actually found *without* manually forcing a search. This is especially true for something that isn't quite mainstream. I'll take one example from my collection: Beauty and the Beast broadway cast cd. AlbumArt couldn't find the cover for an album that isn't super obscure. What likely threw it off--when I tagged the album, the artist field is filled with the actual performer, not something generic like "Original Broadway Cast". Considering the program grabs art from what looks like a google search engine, had I used something like "Original Broadway Cast" I might have had more luck finding the art to this album. The same problem exists if you're a film score lover....depending on who you put for the artist--the composer, the orchestra, is going to severely impact whether or not it can find the art. Just for spoon's reference....here's some albums it didn't find on its own--and I don't see these as rare and obscure by any means--Aida, The King and I, Enchanted, Muppet Treasure Island, Princess Mononoke, Mulan, the Jungle Book.... Going manual and doing it yourself basically saves little to no time effort over punching the album into google images and tagging with foobar--at least not in my view. I'm not sure how the program "searches" for album art, but I'm clearly shocked it can find art for albums like "Born Free" and couldn't for "Mulan". Any thoughts? Is it the artist tag throwing this program off?