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Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #425 –
Wow, your program is the bomb. Many thanks. I have some suggestions, because I download "front", "back" and "disc", and I guess this is what many people do: Would you add two additional buttons besides the save button, which save to a userdefined name? This would make the workflow faster. Currently I use "save as...".

Also, a quick preview when hovering images would also be nice.

A minor thing: I start it with foo_run, but it doesn't come to top. Can you make your program come to foreground, when called?

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #426 –
Quote from: ladiko on
do you think it's possible to add an aditional option like /aspect "{horizontal|vertical}" that means that an ratio of 0.75 and horizontal allow all images f.e. 480 high and 480 to 640 wide but not vice versa?
I'll see if I can think of a good way of doing this. Possibly /requireOrientation portrait|landscape, but I'm not set on that yet.

Quote from: Squeller on
Wow, your program is the bomb. Many thanks. I have some suggestions, because I download "front", "back" and "disc", and I guess this is what many people do: Would you add two additional buttons besides the save button, which save to a userdefined name? This would make the workflow faster. Currently I use "save as...".

Also, a quick preview when hovering images would also be nice.

A minor thing: I start it with foo_run, but it doesn't come to top. Can you make your program come to foreground, when called?
Thanks for your comments! I've had plans for a system of name [a href='index.php?act=findpost&pid=528906']Presets[/a], which would cover the behaviour you wanted for front/back/disc, for quite a long time now, but have still never actually got round to coding it. It may still happen, if I end up with a lot of time to work on this app, but I can't say when.

The problem with previewing on Hover is that previewing causes the full sized image to be downloaded, which is an action I'd rather be more explicit than just a hover. Also, having tested it out, it ends up being more irritating than anything else, as the question of when to dismiss the popup becomes a problem. Moving the mouse outside the popup (the usual way of dismissing one) can be a big annoying move if it is a large image, and it is easy to accidentally popup a preview when you didn't want one. So, on balance, no, hovering will not pop up previews, sorry.

I'm not sure why you are seeing the application not come to the front when it is started with foo_run - it always has for me. Do other programs you start with foo_run come to the front?

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #427 –
Just realized clicking on the image shows a preview, this is enough. Yes, front/back/disc would be nice.
OK, at first start it comes to front. But when I uncheck the "Search in new window" option, in order to have only one instance, additional calls via foo_run do not bring the window to front, this is what I mean.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #428 –
Great tool, I use it with Winamp though...
Is there a way to make it run through Winamp's Media Library automatically?



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Why does it always reset to "Folder.*" when I run the File Browser and choose to save as "%album%.*"?
audiophile // flac & wavpack, mostly // using too many audio players

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #429 –
Quote from: Squeller on
when I uncheck the "Search in new window" option, in order to have only one instance, additional calls via foo_run do not bring the window to front, this is what I mean.
Ah, OK, yes I see this now. I'll fix that for the next version.

Quote from: tuxman on
Great tool, I use it with Winamp though...
Is there a way to make it run through Winamp's Media Library automatically?
I suppose, if Winamp exposes its media library to external applications through an API, a Winamp Browser could be written. It's not a priority though, I'm afraid, as I'd have to learn the Winamp API first!

Quote from: tuxman on
Why does it always reset to "Folder.*" when I run the File Browser and choose to save as "%album%.*"?
Could you be more specific about the steps that cause this problem? The only thing I can think of that might be related is that if you start a search from an item in the File Browser, then the path to save to in the Search Window is automatically set from the path to the item in the file the search was launched from. If that's not it, could you try opening a new window (using the menu), entering the value you want for the save path, then closing the window. Open a new one again, and it should show the changed value.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #430 –
Ah, yes... after a restart the problem is gone, thanks.

Another suggestion:
When I resize the cover previews, could the whole item be resized, too, so the text is not truncated?
audiophile // flac & wavpack, mostly // using too many audio players

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #431 –
Quote from: tuxman on
When I resize the cover previews, could the whole item be resized, too, so the text is not truncated?
I did look into this, but when I tried both possibilities, I found having the size of the preview and the size of the whole item being independent to be easier to use.

Just to check - you are aware you can resize the whole item by grabbing the dragger on the right hand edge of it? Also, you can also choose to have the text underneath the item, so it is less truncated, by clicking the little curved arrow thing on the bottom right of the item. In that mode, the whole item is resized when the image is resized too. There's a slight cosmetic bug with this mode in that the information link icon and the curved arrow to switch back to the original mode get in each others way, but I should have that fixed for the next version too.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #432 –
I' aware of the separate resizing possibilities indeed, but I didn't know if this was by design. Thanks.
audiophile // flac & wavpack, mostly // using too many audio players

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #433 –
Ah... another suggestion:
I would appreciate a possibility to specify special character replacements.

The AAD replaces : by _, but Winamp requires - instead...

edit:
Why do the saved pictures always have a great quality, while the preview images have a lot of visible artefacts?
audiophile // flac & wavpack, mostly // using too many audio players

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #434 –
Quote from: tuxman on
I would appreciate a possibility to specify special character replacements.
I'll consider it. I'm not sure how generally useful it would be (why does Winamp even care if _'s are in the filename?), and there's no room to add that to the Options area without making it take up considerably more space. Anyone else here want to say if they'd find this a useful feature or not?

Quote from: tuxman on
Why do the saved pictures always have a great quality, while the preview images have a lot of visible artefacts?
Possibly because the full size images haven't downloaded yet? AAD shows a thumbnail for the results it finds. If you preview one, it starts to download the full sized image to display, but until it's downloaded the preview will show a scaled-up version of the thumbnail. It says "Full sized image downloading..." at the top of the image while this is happening. If you keep the preview visible for long enough, it should replace itself with the high quality image soon enough.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #435 –
It's quite hard to decide which image to download without having the "full quality" thumbnail... is it possible to increase their quality a very, very tiny bit?
audiophile // flac & wavpack, mostly // using too many audio players

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #436 –
Quote from: tuxman on
It's quite hard to decide which image to download without having the "full quality" thumbnail... is it possible to increase their quality a very, very tiny bit?
Unfortunately, no. The thumbnail is as provided by the source website providing the cover art, so the size and quality of it is not under my control. If you need to see full size images before you choose which one to save, you can either just click on a few of the most likely candidates and wait for them to download, or use the option to always automatically download full sized images.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #437 –
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Why does it always reset to "Folder.*" when I run the File Browser and choose to save as "%album%.*"?


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Could you be more specific about the steps that cause this problem? The only thing I can think of that might be related is that if you start a search from an item in the File Browser, then the path to save to in the Search Window is automatically set from the path to the item in the file the search was launched from. If that's not it, could you try opening a new window (using the menu), entering the value you want for the save path, then closing the window. Open a new one again, and it should show the changed value.


Hi, I tried the same, and I think it is realy a bug in this version, with version 0.19 erverthing works fine...

Thanks for this nice programm 

phiber

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #438 –
Quote from: phibercrack on
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Why does it always reset to "Folder.*" when I run the File Browser and choose to save as "%album%.*"?
Hi, I tried the same, and I think it is realy a bug in this version, with version 0.19 erverthing works fine...
OK, let me get this straight. You run AAD, then click File, New, File Browser. You then click the Options link, and in the "Specify path to find images" box, enter "%album%.*". You then close the file browser window. You then open a new file browser window (again), click the Options link, and the "Specify path to find images" does not show the "%album%.*" that you had entered?

The above works just fine for me, but if that's not what you are doing, or not the result you are seeing, then please give me detailed steps like those to explain what you do, and the result you get.

Thanks,

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #439 –
I use the explorer extension to select an artist with e.g. 5 cds
- "Specify path to find images" is e.g. folder.jpg
- then i select all 5 cds and press "get artwork for selection"
- the 1st cd is O.K.
- but all other cds have a wron "save image to" path (alway's %artist%%extension%oldfilepahtof.folder.jpg

phiber

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #440 –
Quote from: phibercrack on
- the 1st cd is O.K.
- but all other cds have a wron "save image to" path (alway's %artist%%extension%oldfilepahtof.folder.jpg
Thanks for the extra info. I think I might have tracked down the problem - are the other searches being held in the queue? That could have been a bug introduced between 0.19 and 0.20, as I changed how settings applied to windows as they are dequeued. If that's the case, I'll have it fixed for the next version.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #441 –
yes, all other searches being held in the queue.

phiber

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #442 –
AlbumArt Downloader XUI v0.21 Released

This is a bug fixing release, to address the issues that were raised over the last few days:
  • If the existing search window is re-used for a new search, it is now brought to the foreground.
  • When the thumbnail information is displayed below the thumbnail, the info button no longer overlaps the button to toggle the information to display to the side.
  • Fixed bug where if a search initiated from the file browser was queued, it would have the wrong path to save images to popuplated.
  • Removed artists.trivialbeing script, and replaced it with LastFM Artist.
Download:
AlbumArtDownloaderXUI.exe (Installer. Recommended)
AlbumArtDownloaderXUI.zip (zip archive for those who don't like installers)
.NET Framework 3.5 (required)
AlbumArtDownloaderXUI-MediaInfoX64Upgrade.exe (x64 version of MediaInfo - must be installed if you are running a 64 bit version of Windows)

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #443 –
Updating immediately, thanks for the quick fixes. 
audiophile // flac & wavpack, mostly // using too many audio players
 

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #444 –
Is it planned to add sth like Multi-Language Support?
audiophile // flac & wavpack, mostly // using too many audio players

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #445 –
Quote from: tuxman on
Is it planned to add sth like Multi-Language Support?
No. Internationalisation is an absolute pain to do, and even more so to retro fit to a project that wasn't built to support it from the start.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #446 –
OK, no problem then. 
audiophile // flac & wavpack, mostly // using too many audio players

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #447 –
it are teh roxxorz

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #448 –
I use only embedded arts. Is this with the toll possible?

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #449 –
I use Amazon or Wikipedia. Why run MP3s through yet another app?

Does this offer high resolution inserts and CD labels?