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Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #675 –
I know that you've commented about embedding album art in the past, saying that it is not worth supporting. The main reason for supporting this is portability to hardware devices like the ps3 and many portable mp3 players. When I copy music over, it is not stored in the artist/album folder structure so all those folder.jpg files are useless. It does however read art embedded.

Having an option to embed (& overwrite) at the same time as saving the jpg file would be great. This would be really useful, considering there is no other option within foobar to do this. Hopefully you will reconsider your stance on embedding art.
 

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Reply #676 –
One of the major issues with embedding art is that it would have to know exactly which files to embed it into. This would be fairly easy if you have a simple scheme like having one folder per album, and saving the image into that folder. It could then just embed the image into every file in that folder.

The problem is, that isn't the only scheme in use, and I can't think of any good way of automatically determining which files to embed the artwork into that would be safe enough to ship. It could be catastrophically bad if AAD 'updated' a whole bunch of your files with new embedded art, irrevocably losing the art you already had for them.

AAD will remain a tool for downloading album art, and saving it as a file. The job of synchronising album art with embedded tags is a tag-management task, and should be handled by a separate tag-management tool. It's the same class of task as ensuring that all the tracks in an album have the same 'album' tag, and correct track number tag, or that the album tag matches the folder name, that sort of thing.

I expect there are already tools that do this - I don't use embedded album art myself, so I haven't tried one myself. A quick poke around the internet threw up mp3tag (instructions) and a dedicated ID3 Embed Pictures tool, either of which should do the job if your image files and album files are well organised.

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Reply #677 –
Thanks for your reply. I understand where you are coming from, and although it would have been nice to have an all-in-one method of adding album art to files, I agree that the potentional for disaster is quite high.
I guess I'll just have to wait for someone to make a plug-in (or natively added to foobar) that lets you click on a file and embed a jpg file based on a file-naming scheme using titleformatting.

In the meantime, mp3tag seems to do the job reasonably well, although having another separate program was not the most ideal method. It can also be used through foo_run scripts, which integrate it into foobar a little better.

Either way, I'd like to thank you for the time you've put into this plugin. I just updated from v0.7 to 0.25, and it is much faster

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Reply #678 –
Ist ein gutes Programm.

Aber alle Bilder haben den selben Namen. folder.jpg !!!
Save as folder.jpg !!!
Automatik save as orig. Name..... !!!! is besser.
I have Downloading T-Rex save as folder.jpg !!!!
i have Downloading Boehse Onkelz save as folder.jpg !!!!

Das ist nicht gut. Eine Lösung muss her. Eine Verbesserung.

Ansonsten ist das Programm TOP !! 

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Reply #679 –
Quote from: wernerson on
Thanks for your comments. If you want to save your images using the name as the filename, please click "Options", then in the "Save images to" box, replace the text "Folder" with "%name%" instead. You should end up with something like: ...\%artist%\%album%\%name%%preset%.%extension%

(I hope you understand - if not, PM me and I will do my best in German, but this is an English forum, and here I will post only in English)

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Reply #680 –
Thanks for making this tool. Looks really handy.

I'm in a similar position to the person wanting to embed album art. I have a collection of single tracks currently sorted only as Genre\Artist-Trackname.mp3

I'm assuming since I have lots of different artists/albums in the genre folders, using the option to name the artwork the same as the mp3 filename would be my best option. What would be a good automated way to get the art embedded? Sorry for being quite dumb on this, the only embedding I've done before has been from itunes (and some of the mp3s already have albumart from itunes.)

Thanks

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Reply #681 –
Quote from: Jeffsteez on
Thanks for making this tool. Looks really handy.

I'm in a similar position to the person wanting to embed album art. I have a collection of single tracks currently sorted only as Genre\Artist-Trackname.mp3

I'm assuming since I have lots of different artists/albums in the genre folders, using the option to name the artwork the same as the mp3 filename would be my best option. What would be a good automated way to get the art embedded? Sorry for being quite dumb on this, the only embedding I've done before has been from itunes (and some of the mp3s already have albumart from itunes.)

Thanks


I personally use a script which combines foo_run to call the script from foobar, AAD to download the cover, ImageMagick to resize the picture and metamp3 to embed it.
Opus 96 kb/s (Android) / Vorbis -q5 (PC) / WavPack -hhx6m (Archive)

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Reply #682 –
Hi Alex,
I must say a very big thanks for your program. I have been using it for a long time now and it has proved indispensable. It is only now that I have realised that this thread has moved from the foobar forums and I see that your software has progressed enormously. It is really an extremely useful tool.

One problem that I have experienced since I upgraded to the latest version (love the preset idea btw, very very cool) is that sometimes if I call your program from foobar using foo_run the previous download path will still be active. To be more specific: say if I call my foo_run script for album art and then my foo_run script for artist picture the latter will remember the save path from the former. This doesn't happen all the time and perhaps it is not the fault of your program but I thought that I would point it out.

Thanks again.

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Reply #683 –

hi

I used the old version and I had a problem, the old software copied a cover to all the songs in my collection (that is horrible, but improving slowly changing the covers).

I want to know how to download the cover , and save it to the song file.
because i want to have all the songs with covers without depending on the cover/photo files!

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Reply #684 –
Quote from: aphasia on
One problem that I have experienced ... is that sometimes if I call your program from foobar using foo_run the previous download path will still be active.
Thanks for your comments. About this bug, I'm not sure I understand. It is supposed to remember the previous download path. Or do you mean it is ignoring a path specified in the command line using /path? I'll look into that.

Quote from: brianmel on
I want to know how to download the cover , and save it to the song file.
If you look up a few posts you can see we already discussed this. Tag management (including embedded artwork tags) is out of scope for this application. I made a couple of suggestions for software that can batch embed artwork from image files into tags [a href='index.php?act=findpost&pid=608858']here[/a]

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Reply #685 –
Alex: thanks for AAD, it's really helpful for me.

Quote from: AlexVallat on
I made a couple of suggestions for software that can batch embed artwork from image files into tags [a href='index.php?act=findpost&pid=608858']here[/a]


I tried the mp3tag method, and it does put art in the file tags. But a note to others, if you're looking for a tag solution because you're using itunes/ipod (as I am): after mp3tag saves art to the file tags, itunes still doesn't know about it. Since itunes doesn't have a "reload file tags" command, I found you have to either play each song, or open it's properties so itunes recognizes the changed tag. Not very efficient.

itsfv may be able to work around this, but I haven't figured out how to do it. For now I just select a group of songs that make one album, get info, drag the jpg file from windows explorer to the art tag in itunes, click ok. If anyone has any alternatives, please tell.

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Reply #686 –
What should I use for a foo_run script if I want to download artist pictures (saved as artistname.jpg in a directory that stays the same for all images) using Album Art Downloader?  I only have the program set to search last.fm (since I only want artist pictures and not album art) and it's set to save them to the directory that I want.  I just need a foo_run command to launch the program and automate the process if at all possible.

EDIT: I've finally got the program launching and automatically searching for my artist.  Now I just need to download a picture automatically (%artist%.%extension%) to a specific directory (C:\Documents and Settings\Ben\My Documents\Artist Pictures\).  Is that possible?

EDIT(x2): Ok, nevermind.  I guess it's be pretty pointless for me to allow the program to select a picture and save it for me since I'd generally like to pick it myself.

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Reply #687 –
hey folks, foobar noob here so please excuse my ignorance:)

ive been trying to populate my library with artwork using album art downloader to make coverflow nice and pretty. from what i can see it searches for artwork as cover|folder.jpg with the default path variables. this is fine in general but the thing is i have lots of artwork already in my file folders, just not with that naming convention. is there any way possible that i can get album artwork to read any .jpeg or random image in a folder using wildcards for example? ive tinkered a bit with the path but cant seem to get it to do what id like.

also in chronflow preferences.. sources, i see '$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg'
is there a variable that would allow me again to read any image it finds in a directory? (i know this has nothing to do with album art downloader just thought maybe someone reading this might have the answer).

*edit* okay ive progressed a bit further with the second problem.. i can get the notificator in fooAVA 1.05 to pick up on any filename using $replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)* but the image only displays in the small notificator window and not as cover art? argh..

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #688 –
Quote from: AlexVallat on
Quote from: aphasia on
One problem that I have experienced ... is that sometimes if I call your program from foobar using foo_run the previous download path will still be active.
Thanks for your comments. About this bug, I'm not sure I understand. It is supposed to remember the previous download path. Or do you mean it is ignoring a path specified in the command line using /path? I'll look into that.
Yeah it's ignoring the path specified in my foo_run script and instead using the one from the script previously invoked. This seems to only happen if I call the two scripts in quick succession if that helps.

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Reply #689 –
Ive been using this program for a while now..... and I have to say each time I use a new version its significantly better with features that are incredibly useful every time. Basically the development on this appears to be fantastic, and continues to save me more and more time finding art for my music.

thankyou.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #690 –
On second thought...it would be handy if I could automatically download artist pictures for all of my artists.  I see how that would be easy for cover art, but how would I go about doing it with artist pictures?

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #691 –
AlexVallat, can you add support for the modern vista file dialog windows in future version? They support bookmarks and recent places.

Current:


That's, what am I talking about:

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #692 –
Hi there!

It seems like recently the script for Discogs stopt working. I don't get any results at all, even though the album art I'm looking for is on the website.

Does anyone else have this problem too, or am I the only one?

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Reply #693 –
Quote from: frnk on
Hi there!

It seems like recently the script for Discogs stopt working. I don't get any results at all, even though the album art I'm looking for is on the website.

Does anyone else have this problem too, or am I the only one?

Yes I can reproduce this behaviour.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #694 –
Quote from: aphasia on
Quote from: frnk on
Hi there!

It seems like recently the script for Discogs stopt working. I don't get any results at all, even though the album art I'm looking for is on the website.

Does anyone else have this problem too, or am I the only one?

Yes I can reproduce this behaviour.


OK. So it's not just me?

Does anyone know what to do about it then?

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Reply #695 –
just noticed this too.. the foo_discogs plugin seems broken as well (most options are greyed out)

might just be a glitch and fix itself in a few days

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #696 –
Hm, might this have anything to do with it?

Discogs' search function has had an overhaul as well recently.

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Reply #697 –
looks like the culprit.

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Reply #698 –
Sorry for the late reply. It looks like email notification of thread replies has been broken recently, and I haven't checked manually in a while!

Anyway, here's an updated discogs.boo for you all; thanks for reporting it.

acmodeu, I am using the standard common file dialog control provided by WPF. It is a shame that this does not automatically provide the new-style dialogs under Vista, I agree.

There is almost certainly some sort of hacky work-around to call the APIs directly to get this dialog, but as I don't have a copy of Vista, I won't be able to do this. Sorry.

Alex

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Reply #699 –
You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.