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Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1150 –
Greetings,

I have a custom of marking release types in folder names and tags for anything else than full albums, e.g. (demo), (single). For example, I'd name the folder of my Windowlicker single by Aphex Twin like this:

1999 - Windowlicker (single)

And the album tag would be:

Windowlicker (single)

This is obviously problematic when searching for covers, because the "(single)" suffix messes up the search. Is there a way to get around this without having to rename everything, maybe via a script or something? I'm really bad at manually sorting stuff like this out myself, so I need your help.  I have so many small releases that getting all the covers manually would be quite a drag.

If this has been asked before I'm sorry, and I hope you can point me to that reply where it's addressed. I tried searching the thread to no avail.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1151 –
Quote from: fromsilenceandanything on
Is there a way to get around this without having to rename everything, maybe via a script or something?
Hello,

There's a couple of options here, I think. I'd suggest that the 'correct' solution would be to use the foobar Mass Tagger tool to strip off the suffix from the Album tag and place it in it's own custom tag, as it's a separate bit of data. However, I understand perfectly if you can't be bothered with that, or want to keep the suffix within the Album tag for compatibility with some other software or process.

Another option is for Album Art Downloader to use the folder name instead of the tag to determine the album name. This is done by clicking the Options link on the file browser window, and selecting the option to use a path pattern. You don't mention where the artist name appears in your path, though - if it doesn't appear anywhere (you have all your album folders in the same base folder rather than in artist sub-folders), then there could be a problem as AAD can't currently take the album name from the path and the artist name from the tags, it has to be both together.

If I assume the simplest case that your folders are in Artist folders, and that you always have a year separated by a - , and that there is always a suffix are enclosed in parenthesis and separated by a space, then you could use the path pattern:

\%artist%\* - %album% (*\.

That will take the artist name as everything that comes between the - and the ( in the folder name.

I hope this helps,

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1152 –
Thanks for the swift reply man. You're ace.

Yeah, my folder structure is like this for every release:
Aphex Twin\1999 - Windowlicker (single)\01 - Aphex Twin - Windowlicker.mp3, etc.

I'll try out what you wrote. Thanks again!

EDIT: Yes, the script you posted works perfectly. Now I'll have some fun time downloading dozens of covers, yay.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1153 –
Quote from: AlexVallat on
Quote from: Mar2zz on
After installing last weeks Vista patches AAD stopped working.

Thanks for reporting this. Could you try updating to the latest version (0.32) and see if the problem still occurs?

Thanks,

Alex


Sorry I was on a little vacation so I couldn't try earlier, the same happens (also, when updating album art doesn't recognize the folder it was early installed in correctly, it tries to install itself in a subfolder AlbumArtDownloader in the folder the program is initially installed in):
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Probleemhandtekening:
  Gebeurtenisnaam van probleem:    APPCRASH
  Naam van de toepassing:    AlbumArt.exe
  Versie van toepassing:    0.32.0.0
  Tijdstempel van toepassing:    4affcd54
  Naam van foutmodule:    StackHash_27f2
  Versie van foutmodule:    0.0.0.0
  Tijdstempel van foutmodule:    00000000
  Uitzonderingscode:    c0000005
  Uitzonderingsmarge:    0001102e
  Versie van besturingssysteem:    6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
  Landinstelling-id:    1043
  Aanvullende informatie 1:    27f2
  Aanvullende informatie 2:    325055436168101a578479ab72a66d1a
  Aanvullende informatie 3:    21e2
  Aanvullende informatie 4:    c8b0deb27397de66dbbb0cb7ca788765

Lees onze privacyverklaring:
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=50163&clcid=0x0413


(i forgot to mention, I also reinstalled (repaired) .net framework)

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1154 –
Quote from: Mar2zz on
I've done some searching, and the only even vaguely helpful suggestion I could find for crashes of this sort was to turn off DEP for the application causing the crash. There's a reasonably good set of instructions here (for XP, but Vista should be the same).

As to why it would be crashing like this at all, I'm afraid I don't know. Album Art Downloader is written in 100% managed .net code, and this error occurs at a lower level - so something is going wrong in the .net framework itself, but I've got no way of finding out what it is.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1155 –
Thank you for answering that fast. Vista won't let it add me to DEP. But I discovered another program that stopped working, Handbrake. I believe this one has also .net 3.5 dependency.

It's in there for sure, that nasty bug.

This really sucks. This asks for a reinstall and/or switch to win7 or xp. So far my Vista experience for 3 months...

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1156 –
Ok I have installed this and got it working by browsing foobar library I got all albums without album art on queue , it searched but now I have to click in 50 windows to save it.. Is there any way to order to save from every window automatically ?

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1157 –
Quote from: OrcaMarinha on
Is there any way to order to save from every window automatically ?
No, you have to choose a result each time. With autoclose turned on, this can just be double-clicking on the one you want (which will save that image, then autoclose will close the window, and the search queue will open the next one). It isn't currently possible to have it automatically select the best result for you though.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1159 –
Quote from: OrcaMarinha on
Ok I have installed this and got it working by browsing foobar library I got all albums without album art on queue , it searched but now I have to click in 50 windows to save it.. Is there any way to order to save from every window automatically ?


Hey there, can I ask how you managed to queue all the tracks without album art?
I'm trying to do the same thing!

Thanks 

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1160 –
You need to open file browser or foobarbrowser in AAD. Start a window, go to File > New and choose a browser. (for it to work with foobar you need to install comserver component). In the window that opens define your path or playlist and click search.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1161 –
Does anyone have any idea about where my foo_run script is going wrong? Nothing happens when I run it... It used to work, but after I upgraded to windows 7 and the new version of this plugin, it doesn't

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C:\Program Files\AlbumArtDownloader\AlbumArt.exe  /ar "%artist%" /al "%album%" /p "$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg


I got the path from foo_run "..." button so the path should be right, however, I can't even open the program with a script like

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C:\Program Files\AlbumArtDownloader\AlbumArt.exe


The program runs fine when I start it through windows ("C:\Program Files\AlbumArtDownloader\AlbumArt.exe")

Possibly a foo_run issue, but thought I'd get more help here

Windows 7/9.6.9/0.32.0.0

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1162 –
One thing I'm trying and I don't seem to figure out how to do it.
I am using front.%extension% as the main source of AlbumArt. So this is the query that I'm giving File Browser to search for. If there's no front, I'll look for one. But...
Many times I find the back cover, inside, CD, etc. And if they're there why not download them too. So I want to use %type%.%extension% as the saving pattern. But, the saving pattern seems to be automatically taken from the search pattern in the browser. So if I search for front.%extension% that's what I have to save; and if I search for %type%.%extension% I get false covers (whatever file finds first).

My question is: can I search for front.%extension% and save as %preset%.%extension% or %type%.%extension%?

Thanks for the great tool!
 

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1163 –
Quick question, I sometime have multiple %artist% tags.
Is it possible from within Foobar's foo_run to launch multiple Album Art Downloader XUI windows with the respective artists?

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1166 –
I mean, literally how?
There is only one ARTIST tag AFAIK?
audiophile // flac & wavpack, mostly // using too many audio players

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1167 –
Quote from: tuxman on
I mean, literally how?
There is only one ARTIST tag AFAIK?


Well my files are FLAC, using Ogg Vorbis comments, I can add whatever tags I want using Foobar. Including multiple Artist tags. You can do that by adding a ';' between the different artists. You might need to add the artist tag to the list of MULTIPLEVALUE fields in the advanced options (I don't remember if it's there by default)

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1168 –
Ah, another thing that was new to me. Thank you.
audiophile // flac & wavpack, mostly // using too many audio players

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1169 –
I'm always amazed at the integration features put into this program.  I have been doing some heavy use with foobar2000, foo_run, and the AAD command line and I consistently run into the same problem.  Any album or artist containing the characters "&.;:?!'" will search flawlessly, but will not automatically save the image, I must manually edit the save path.  Is there any way for me to instruct AAD how I want it to handle these invalid characters?  Thank you for help.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1170 –
Quote from: sylla on
Does anyone have any idea about where my foo_run script is going wrong?
Have you tried putting quotes around the path? "C:\Program Files\AlbumArtDownloader\AlbumArt.exe" /ar "%artist%" /al "%album%" /p "$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg"
That's worth a go.

Quote from: loft on
My question is: can I search for front.%extension% and save as %preset%.%extension% or %type%.%extension%?
Not at the moment, sorry! The only thing you can do is a Save As and type the name in like that. You could also try %preset%.jpg or %type%.jpg as the first image to search for (which is what's used for the save path), and have front.%extension% as an alternative image to search for: %preset%.jpg|front.%extension%

That would find any *.jpg and front.*, which might give some false covers, but probably won't (.jpgs in your folders are probably covers).

Quote from: Benji99 on
Quick question, I sometime have multiple %artist% tags.
Is it possible from within Foobar's foo_run to launch multiple Album Art Downloader XUI windows with the respective artists?
I don't think foo_run can do this. You could try asking in a foo_run thread, but as far as I know it can only launch one process per command. I'm not even sure how it handles tags with multiple values at all.

Quote from: DArtagan on
Any album or artist containing the characters "&.;:?!'" will search flawlessly, but will not automatically save the image, I must manually edit the save path.  Is there any way for me to instruct AAD how I want it to handle these invalid characters?
If you pass invalid characters directly to the path parameter, it will use them exactly as you passed them, and probably display an error if you try to save. If the invalid characters are part of the artist or album name and are substituted into the path, then invalid characters are automatically replaced by _. For example, the command line /artist "who:me?" /album "yes!" /path "c:\music\who:me?\yes!.jpg" would fail to save, but the command line /artist "who:me?" /album "yes!" /path "c:\music\%artist%\%album%.%extension%" would save as "c:\music\who_me_\yes_.jpg".

Note that to pass the % character through foo_run, it must be escaped as %%, so you write /path "c:\music\%%artist%%\%%album%%.%%extension%%"

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1171 –
Quote from: AlexVallat on
Quote from: sylla on
Does anyone have any idea about where my foo_run script is going wrong?
Have you tried putting quotes around the path? "C:\Program Files\AlbumArtDownloader\AlbumArt.exe" /ar "%artist%" /al "%album%" /p "$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg"
That's worth a go.


That worked, thanks! And thanks for this wonderful program.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1172 –
I just found out about your program. It's very nice, it worked for many of my albums.
But for the rest of my albums, the "File Browser" finds "Artist = 1" or "Artist = .". I'm 100% sure my tags are correct, I use Tag&Rename. Thus, I have to manually change the artist.
What's wrong ?

Thank you.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1173 –
Quote from: Joe30 on
the "File Browser" finds "Artist = 1" or "Artist = .".
If the artist and album are part of the file or folder name, you could use file path pattern matching instead of tags. Alternatively, would you be able to send me a sample track that shows the problem? I can analyse the tags on it and find out what's going wrong.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1174 –
AlbumArtExchange.com script removal
I've had a request to remove the AlbumArtExchange.com script, from the site owner (Scott), as it's taking up too much of their bandwidth. That script will therefore not be included in v0.33. I'm sure he'd appreciate it if you were to stop using it (or even just scale back on it's usage, you can set it to download only one result, or to not be Search First so it's only searched if no other source finds anything).

If you want to provide feedback to me, post it here. If you would rather AlbumArtExchange read it, try their forums.

Alex