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App version: 0.26.0.0, running on Microsoft Windows NT 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at AlbumArtDownloader.Updates.CheckForUpdates(Boolean forceCheck)
   at AlbumArtDownloader.App.ProcessCommandArgs(String[] args)
   at AlbumArtDownloader.App.OnStartup(StartupEventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Application.<.ctor>b__0(Object unused)
   at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Boolean isSingleParameter)
   at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate callback, Object args, Boolean isSingleParameter, Delegate catchHandler)
   at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.InvokeImpl()
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.runTryCode(Object userData)
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.Invoke()
   at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.ProcessQueue()
   at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.WndProcHook(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled)
   at MS.Win32.HwndWrapper.WndProc(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled)
   at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.DispatcherCallbackOperation(Object o)
   at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Boolean isSingleParameter)
   at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate callback, Object args, Boolean isSingleParameter, Delegate catchHandler)
   at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.InvokeImpl(DispatcherPriority priority, TimeSpan timeout, Delegate method, Object args, Boolean isSingleParameter)
   at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.SubclassWndProc(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam)
   at MS.Win32.UnsafeNativeMethods.DispatchMessage(MSG& msg)
   at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.TranslateAndDispatchMessage(MSG& msg)
   at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.PushFrameImpl(DispatcherFrame frame)
   at System.Windows.Application.RunInternal(Window window)
   at AlbumArtDownloader.App.AlbumArtDownloader.IPriorInstance.Run()
   at AlbumArtDownloader.InstanceMutex.RunAppAsServiceHost(IPriorInstance instance, String channelUri)
   at AlbumArtDownloader.App.Main(String[] args)

This release adds an online update checking feature. By default, it will check for updates automatically (maximum of once per day), checking for both new releases, and more importantly, updated scripts.
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If you prefer, you can also look at the scripts list in your web browser and manually download whatever you want: Updates.xml.

Rate Your Music has been removed

An installer could force a rename, but not everyone would run the installer, and having two copies of the script with different names would cause problems.

In the future, I may add a separate command to browse for available scripts. If that does go in, then a notification that new scripts are available could go in, which would notify only once per script that you had not seen before. The only problem I have with this is that the first time it is run after installation, unless you installed with all available scripts, you would get the notification of new scripts popping up. That could be a bit annoying if you'd deliberately chosen not to install them.

I'll have a think about how best to handle obsolete scripts. I don't much like the idea of automatically deleting them from the installer, although I can't put my finger on exactly why, though. Just the general principle that you wouldn't expect running an installer to delete files, I suppose, but I can't see that it's really any more harmful than automatically replacing them with newer versions.

From what you've said, it sounds more like you'd want to have every possible script installed, and install any new script whenever it was available. The exception would be to exclude a specifically unwanted script, rather than pick and choose the wanted ones.

Anyone else want to express an opinion? Do you just pick and use a small number of scripts, or do you like to have everything possible, then sift through all the results to choose the best each time?

Anyone else want to express an opinion? Do you just pick and use a small number of scripts, or do you like to have everything possible, then sift through all the results to choose the best each time?

i was just wondering how i can change the default save path for Album Art Downloader

Quote from: kinglaiho on 2009-05-13 10:13:15

i was just wondering how i can change the default save path for Album Art Downloader

In the search window, click the Options link, then put the path in the "Save images to" box. You probably want something like C:\AlbumArtImages\%artist% - %album%.%extension%

If you use the file or foobar browser windows, then you should also update the path it uses to look for images, so it knows to find them there. To do this, in the file or foobar browser window, click the Options link, then put the path in the "Specify path to find images" box. As it's an absolute path (not relative to the folder the music is found in), just use the same path that you used for the search window.

Hope this helps!

Alex

Is there something i'm missing?

What do you think about adding mp3 tag support? [...]it should be easy to implement this.

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.