Album Art Downloader XUI version 0.1.0.0

**** Only the first three parameters may be un-named ****

Usage: AlbumArt.exe [options]

Option names may be preceded by a / or a -
Options:

 /artist      Artist to search for            (/artist "Artist Name")
              May be abbreviated to /ar       (/ar "Artist Name")
              Parameter name may be omitted
              if this is the first parameter  ("Artist Name")

 /album       Album to search for             (/album "Album Name")
              May be abbreviated to /al       (/al "Album Name")
              Parameter name may be omitted
              if this is the second parameter ("Artist Name" "Album Name")
 
 /path        Default path to save art as     (/path "\Art\Folder.jpg")
              May be abbreviated to /p        (/p "\Art\Folder.jpg")
              Parameter name may be omitted
              if this is the third parameter  ("Artist Name" "Album Name" "\Art\Folder.jpg")

              The following variables can be used in paths:
               %artist%     Artist searched for
               %album%      Album searched for
               %name%       Name of the image found
               %extension%  Default file extension for the image
               %source%     Name of the source where image was found
               %size%       Dimensions of the image

 /f           Provided for backwards          (/p "\Art" /f "Folder.jpg")
              compatibility only. When
              specified, the value is
              appended to the path.

 /autoclose   Closes the search window after  (/autoclose)
              a saving. To avoid closing, use
              Save As.
              May be abbreviated to /ac

 /sources     Searches only the specified     (/sources "Amazon,Coveralia")
              sources. Others are disabled.
              Separate sources with commas.
              May be abbreviated to /s

 /exclude     Does not search the specified   (/exclude "Local Files,Google")
              sources. Separate sources with
              commas.
              May be abbreviated to /es
              For backwards compatibilty, the
              parameter "/ae off" can also be
              used to exclude "Local Files".

Alex, BRAVO man. New version is really slick.

15-25% CPU usage and 100+ MBs RAM just sitting there...ugh.

Option to put the image info below the thumbnail instead of to the side

A 'Stop All' button at the top of the sources column

One more small thing, the Amazon script doesn't seem to be grabbing the image size.

If you have a minimum size set, like 200px, then none of the Amazon results show up.

Can you add a maximum image size as well?  It would help in filtering out misc junk.

2.  Make /autoclose an option in the main program saved across sessions.  Currently it is available only as a commandline switch that cannot be passed via REACT2.  Also make it possible to override this option via commandline switch like /noautoclose (see usage in next request)

@ wraithdu

If you have the XUI version working with REACT2, would you please share the commandline that you are using in the REACT config file? Thanks!

The new XUI version works with the old CoverDownloader commandline switches as well as the new ones, so my commandline is only changed to the new path of XUI in my react.ini

The older CoverDownloader that comes with REACT does not need switches, so since switches have been introduced in the newer versions, I have not been able to use those newer versions with REACT. So if you would please post your command line, I would be most appreciative.

To be crystal on this issue, the old CoverDownloader did in fact need commandline switches to work -

"%album artist%" "%album%" "%path%"

in that order and that exact sytax with the " ".  The issue is that REACT2 silently passes those values to albumart.exe when it is run.  Those values are hardcoded in the react.exe and not editable.  The new XUI version understands values passed to it in this way as well as with the new switches.

Is the Album Queue making a return to XUI?

Make /autoclose an option in the main program saved across sessions.

3.  With the return of the queue, can you make it possible to load multiple albums via foo_run?  I'm not sure what the foo_run command would look like for this, so if you could give some insight here that would be great.  This is where /noautoclose would come in, since you wouldn't want XUI to close after saving the first cover of the queue.

Could you give me some more details about what you are trying to achieve here? I was assuming if you wanted to search for multiple albums, you'd just call AlbumArt.exe multiple times, one for each album. This would have the same effect as doing multiple searches. Ideally this would keep just a single running instance and pass the details to search for to it automatically, but I haven't implemented that yet, so you'll actually get multiple instances. The only effect of that is to use up more CPU and RAM, functionally it should be identical.

I have problems with the last version.
"C:\Programme\Audio\foobar2000-0.9\components\AlbumArtDownloader\albumart.exe" -ar "%artist%" -al "%album%" -p "$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)"

On double-click on a coverart it isn't automatically saved as folder.jpg to the path anymore. Any ideas/solutions? (I tried the -f parameter without luck)

"C:\Programme\Audio\foobar2000-0.9\components\AlbumArtDownloader\albumart.exe" -ar "%artist%" -al "%album%" -p "$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,'folder.jpg')"

I have the same problem. When I double click a cover it brings me to the Save As... window.

I'm not using that brand new version, just the normal one.

One problem though. If a file already exsits it asks, whether it should be replaced - yes -> errormessage. Need more details?