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Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1325 –
Quote from: AlexVallat on
Quote from: Benji99 on
I'm having an issue with the Amazon.co.jp script when there's non-english characters
Thanks for reporting this. It looks like Amazon.jp sometimes has a different form of displaying the results (tabular, rather than a list). I can't figure out when it chooses to do this, so I've just got the script to try to read both formats now. Also, I fixed up some of the encoding issues, so .jp should now use the ShiftJIS codepage properly, both accepting and returning characters in that encoding.

Unfortunately Sourceforge is down for the weekend, so I can't push out an update yet - but if you don't want to wait, you can get the updated script files here: amazon-jp.zip. Both files go in your scripts folder.

Alex


Hi Alex, thanks for the quick update!

I've tested the new script and it sometimes work, but other times it does not.

Here's 3 more examples I tried:

Doesn't work:
Artist: ????
Album: ????

Artist: ?????????
Album: THUMP?

Works:
Artist: ????
Album: ?

Artist: ????
Album: ?? ???

Another thing is the buy.com is also acting really strange throwing results about all sorts of irrelevant gadgets.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1326 –
This program is amazing considering the amount of sources that it can pull. A lot of kudos goes to the developer.
Two little questions I had about the program:
1- Will there ever be an option to save the art directly inside of the mp3? I ask because I think adding that feature would be of great convenience for people (like me) who save art directly in the file instead of folder.jpg.
2- I'm using the Windows version. Whenever I do a search in the Search window, it would open the results in a new separate window instead of overriding the previous results in just one window. So, if I make 20 searches then I'd have 20 windows open. Is the software purposely writing like that or I have a defaulted install?

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Reply #1327 –
Quote from: Hank H. on
I can't figure out how to tell the program how to name the downloaded files.
It depends on where you're starting from. If you're passing in the path as part of the command line (running AAD from Foobar using foo_run, for example), then the name is probably part of the command line. If you post the command line you're using, I can probably figure out what's wrong with it.

If you are starting from the AAD File or Foobar Browser, then the downloaded files are saved with the first name you put in the "Specify path to find images" box. By default this would be "Folder%preset%.%extension%", so would usually save as "Folder.jpg".

If you are searching directly from the main AAD window, then the "Save images to" box is the place to look.

I hope this helps,

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1328 –
Quote from: Benji99 on
I've tested the new script and it sometimes work, but other times it does not.
OK, I'll have another look at it when I get some time, see if I can figure out why. Thanks for the examples.

The buy.com thing is irritating, I agree - but they are actually returning those things as search results! I guess they figure trying to sell you anything is better than nothing.

Quote from: dadarkman on
Thanks! To answer your questions:

1- As far as I'm concerned, no. I don't think this is the right utility for that; ensuring that all track files in an album have the right image tag is a tag management task, and should be done using tag management software (it's the same class of task as ensuring that all the tracks have the same Album tag). This program is just for finding the artwork, not for managing your tags.

That said, a guy called Liam posted a while back that he was interested in developing this functionality himself. If it works out, I'll add his changes and post an update. I haven't heard from him for a while now, though.

2- Click the options link in the Search window, and uncheck the box labelled "Open search results in new window". Should do the trick.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1329 –
Quote from: AlexVallat on
Quote from: Hank H. on
I can't figure out how to tell the program how to name the downloaded files.
It depends on where you're starting from. (...)

If you are starting from the AAD File or Foobar Browser, then the downloaded files are saved with the first name you put in the "Specify path to find images" box. By default this would be "Folder%preset%.%extension%", so would usually save as "Folder.jpg".



That's what I was doing. I still don't understand why it does what it does (i.e. leave out the extension), but I guess I'll have to find the time to check out other options like foo_run first and see if that's working better for me.

Thanks so far, AlexVallat!

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1330 –
Quote from: Benji99 on
I've tested the new script and it sometimes work, but other times it does not.

Here's 3 more examples I tried:

Doesn't work:
Artist: ????
Album: ????

Artist: ?????????
Album: THUMP?

????????? / THUMP? works fine for me... ????/???? doesn't, but then I don't get any results for it when I search amazon.co.jp directly: amazon.co.jp music search

It looks to me like the artist for that album ought to be: ????, not ????, though - and that works fine.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1331 –
Quote from: AlexVallat on
Quote from: Benji99 on
I've tested the new script and it sometimes work, but other times it does not.

Here's 3 more examples I tried:

Doesn't work:
Artist: ????
Album: ????

Artist: ?????????
Album: THUMP?

????????? / THUMP? works fine for me... ????/???? doesn't, but then I don't get any results for it when I search amazon.co.jp directly: amazon.co.jp music search

It looks to me like the artist for that album ought to be: ????, not ????, though - and that works fine.

Alex


Hi Alex,

Haha, I noticed later I made a mistake in the name and never connected with the error in getting the artwork!
Sorry about that

Sebastien

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1332 –
Why does it take so long to start?
My Photoshop CS4 is starting faster then this app.

It takes more then 20 sec on Win7 to start.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1333 –
Quote from: _stranger_ on
Why does it take so long to start?
Do you mean just the first time it is run? Does it pop up the splashscreen with the progress bar? If so, then it takes so long because it's compiling the scripts into executable code. It only does this when they've been changed, though.

If you mean every time it's run, then there's probably something with your .net framework installation. I'm running Windows 7 myself and it takes between 1 and 2 seconds to load. Admittedly I've got a fast machine, but 20 seconds is way out. Even for the first run script compilation, 20s is pretty long.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1334 –
Quote from: AlexVallat on
If you mean every time it's run, then there's probably something with your .net framework installation. I'm running Windows 7 myself and it takes between 1 and 2 seconds to load. Admittedly I've got a fast machine, but 20 seconds is way out. Even for the first run script compilation, 20s is pretty long.

Alex
That was fast.
Thank you

Yes, every time i run it takes more then 20 sec. The thing is that i am using .NET framework that comes with win7.
I didn't install any other version or SPs.

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Reply #1335 –
Quote from: _stranger_ on
Yes, every time i run it takes more then 20 sec. The thing is that i am using .NET framework that comes with win7.
In that case I don't know why it's taking so long, sorry! If it isn't producing any error messages then it doesn't really give me anything to go on.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1337 –
It seems that everything is ok with my .NET Framework.
At least that .NET Framework Setup Verification Tool says so:

Code: [Select]
[04/24/10,16:37:18] Verification succeeded for product .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

[04/24/10,16:37:56] Verification succeeded for product .NET Framework 3.0 SP2

[04/24/10,16:38:22] Verification succeeded for product .NET Framework 2.0 SP2


Realy don't get it... what can be the problem... i am so confused...

But thanks anyway.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1338 –
i have a question:
if a cover download is still in progress and i close the window - will the download finish or abortet? thank you very much!

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1339 –
Quote from: Der Internet on
if a cover download is still in progress and i close the window - will the download finish or abortet? thank you very much!
As long as there are any windows open (so Album Art Downloader is still running), the download will finish. If all the windows are closed, then you have exited Album Art Downloader, and the download will be aborted.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1340 –
Album Art Downloader has always been slow to start on my system as well. On a first run after a boot, I just timed it at 15 seconds. If I close it and then run it again, it only takes about 2 seconds. Some delay appears to be a common to running any .NET application for the first time after a restart, though it still seems AAD takes a fair bit longer than others. For reference, I'm running Windows 7 64-bit on an Athlon X2 6000+.

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Reply #1341 –
Quote
Some delay appears to be a common to running any .NET application for the first time after a restart, though it still seems AAD takes a fair bit longer than others.

Confirmed here too.. again (I remember posting something like this in the past).

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1342 –
Album Art Exchange won't find anything anymore. Is there anything to do ?
It's my fav source

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1344 –
Ah so at least there's an explanation and hopefully Alex can fix this

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Reply #1345 –
The site is not up, I don't think that Alex could fix that, he's amazing but I doubt that.  Besides, he won't fix the script because the AAX script is no longer a part of the AAD.

Quote from: AlexVallat on
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).

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1346 –
Site works fine for me. But that's a very sad news

//and I guess it's not really that AAD is "taking up too much bandwith", but most likely because they seem to have a deal with TidySongs, a $40 shareware program...

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1347 –
Now that AAX has moved to a new server, I don't think the script will function anymore.

Although it's not too difficult to search the actual website (especially with the Firefox search plug-ins), I will concede that being able to download the artwork with the AAD program is much more convenient.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1348 –
A mere server change won't break the script. I've trouble loading the site now, but an ~hour ago the "gallery" page gave lots of PHP errors, so the problems continue. If you like the script in AAD, start learning to code BOO, you'll be ready when the day comes that the old script doesn't work anymore.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #1349 –
Is there a guide about how to use your tool?
I'm new using it, have used in via REACT2 (Exact Audio Copy) a few times but I now have a different task:

add Album Art to 187 albums. I tried simply adding the root of my albums folder: D:\Music\Albums. That works: 187 albums identified. So I select all of them and press "Get Artwork for selection". Now I get 2 screens, one for album no1 with Album Art search results and one for album no2 (at least thats my assumption) with results.

But what to do next? When I press one of the Artworks, nothing happens, when I close one of those windows, another one for a different album opens... not sure what the correct process is..