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Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #402 –
will there be an option to add album art to id3tags?

that would only make this program taht much better

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #403 –
Is there a way to get iTunes v 7 to use the folder.jpg in the artist\album directory where I stored it from searching in AAD?  iTunes has it's own album art directory structure and doesn't recognize my folder.jps's when I load my itunes library with new discs.

Is there an automatic way to accomplish this with AAD and have it save itunes artwork directory structure as well as folder.jpg?  I suppose one way to make this universal would be if AAD saved artwork in the mp3 tags (let's not debate if that is a good idea or not please).  Trying to save some steps here.

I currently rip using either eac+mareo or foobar+mareo into flac and mp3.  Then have to foobrowse through AAD and lookup artwork, then load itunes library then can't access artwork?  I am trying to avoid using foo_dop as the rest of my family has to sync their ipdos as well and foo_dop doesn't have calendar syncing for iphone.

Thanks in advance for your help

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #404 –
I too am waiting for someone to update the amazon.boo script so it can search amazon again...

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #405 –
Sorry, I haven't had a chance to reply for a while.

First, AAD won't be storing images embedded in tags, sorry. If you want to work with iTunes, can I recommend the very fine [a href='index.php?showtopic=51708']iTunes Store file validator[/a]?

I've just tested the amazon scripts, and they seem to be working fine for me. Could anyone else confirm whether the amazon scripts work for them or not? If you aren't using version 0.6 of the amazon scripts, then you could try updating to the latest version of AAD which includes them.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #406 –
damn, i see mine is 0.3... thought i had the latest aad, but i guess not... will try now

:UPDATE:

yeah, that was it, thank you  ... now it all works with more results... and faster as well!

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #407 –
edit: removed by request.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #408 –
Quote from: AlbumArtExchange on
I've just added a new XML search interface
Excellent, that's appreciated. I'll include an updated script for AlbumArtExchange in the next release.

(Which is coming along soon now, honestly! Sorry it's taken so long.)

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #409 –
if i start albumart via command line, it works great:
Code: [Select]
D:\Program Files\AlbumArtDownloader>albumart.exe /ar "madonna" /p "d:\test.jpg"



aad i get this error:
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D:\Program Files\AlbumArtDownloader>aad.exe /ar "madonna" /p "d:\test.jpg"
Album Art Downloader XUI Command Line Interface version 0.19.0.0

Unexpected faliure: Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt.

this means something like: the object reference was not set to a object instance.

edit:
ahh ok for the cmd version the album isnt optional. so how to only get some pics of the artists? a wildcard for the album?

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #410 –
Quote from: ladiko on
ahh ok for the cmd version the album isnt optional. so how to only get some pics of the artists? a wildcard for the album?

I'll fix that for the next version, there's no reason the album shouldn't be allowed to be optional here.

Until then, to work around it, just pass " " for the album, so:

aad.exe /ar "madonna" /p "d:\test.jpg" /al " "

should do the job.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #411 –
thank you! i figured out the same yesterday late at night. the result with a space char is the same as in albumart.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #412 –
Quote from: AlexVallat on
I'll include an updated script for AlbumArtExchange in the next release.
Here's the new script that uses the new AlbumArtExchange XML API: albumartexchange.boo

It will be included in the next release (this weekend, hopefully), but until then, if anyone would like to start using it and let me know if there are any problems with it, that would be appreciated.

Alex
 

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #413 –
lol net framework is realy interesting:
i tried /ma 0.6 but in germany i have to use 0,6 cause
in germany 1,500 means one and a half and 1.500 means fifteen hundred.

that's localization ^^

is it possible to filter such pictures:

GoogleImage: 112 ft. Puff Daddy & Notorious B.I.G.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #414 –
Thanks for the cool application - just updating to the newer version.
I am just busy installing this...

Just a quick question: Is there any way of filtering results with the aspect ratio of 1:1??

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #415 –
I have local album art in two places -- as folder.xxx files in individual album folders, e.g.

F:/music/Pink Floyd/1971 - Meddle/folder.png

and a bunch of uniquely-named art files (artist_album.xxx) in a separate folder called 'covers'.

F:/covers/The Beatles_Revolver.jpg

I'm able to get AAD to list local album art -- using alternation to find jpgs, pngs, or gifs --  from one place but so far not  both.  Can someone tell me the alternation syntax for this?

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #416 –
Quote from: ladiko on
is it possible to filter such pictures:
No, I don't think so. The only thing wrong with the picture is that it is useless, which is a pretty subjective judgement to make. For all the software knows, the cover might actually be supposed to be pure black with a number grey 56 on it.

Quote from: TheChipstar on
Just a quick question: Is there any way of filtering results with the aspect ratio of 1:1??
Not in the normal (interactive) application, no. I hadn't considered it necessary, as the thumbnails give a good indication of aspect ratio. For the command line version (aad.exe), as you can't preview the images, I did add this feature. To limit results to only 1:1 aspect ratio images, use /minAspect 1 in the command line.

Quote from: krabapple on
I'm able to get AAD to list local album art -- using alternation to find jpgs, pngs, or gifs --  from one place but so far not  both.  Can someone tell me the alternation syntax for this?
How about folder.png|folder.jpg|folder.gif|/covers/%artist%_%album%.*

There's no way of grouping alternations, so you can't have (folder|cover).(png|jpg), for example. Each alternation has to stand alone. So, if .* doesn't cut it for the /covers/ folder, and you need to restrict to .png, .jpg, .gif, you have to add alternations for each of those too!

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #417 –
Quote from: AlexVallat on
No, I don't think so. The only thing wrong with the picture is that it is useless, which is a pretty subjective judgement to make. For all the software knows, the cover might actually be supposed to be pure black with a number grey 56 on it.
no dont filter black pictures with a dark gray 56, but pictures that have the same RGB value for 90% of the whole image - this cant be a valid picture or do you know such a album cover?

edit:
except the beatles's white album 

maybe it could be implemented as an optional feature?

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #418 –
Quote from: ladiko on
or do you know such a album cover?
"It's like, 'how much more black could this be?' and the answer is none. None more black."

Also, The Black Album 

In any case, I'm not going to add a feature to make a judgement on the usefulness of a cover based on its appearance. That's what the search result thumbnails are there for. If you just avoid using the google image search, you'll eliminate the vast majority of incorrect results at a single stroke anyway.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #419 –
google image is the best source for rare or less known artists but ok. i try to handle this on another way

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #420 –
AlbumArt Downloader XUI v0.20 Released

New features and fixes:
  • Added a Folder column to File/Foobar browsers (hidden by default)
  • Added the ability to hide and show columns in the File/Foobar browser. Right click on any column header to hide or show a column.
  • File/Foobar columns visibility and widths are now persisted.
  • Window size and position settings now behave more like other settings in the way they are applied to new windows.
  • Current settings are now applied to queued search windows as they are dequeued, rather than enqueued.
  • Fixed crash in command line version when album or artist was not supplied
  • Added "Forum" and "Donations" links to Help menu. If the donations menu entry is aesthetically or philosophically objectionable to you, highlight it and click the Delete key to remove it.
  • AlbumArtExchange script updated to use XML API.
  • Cover-Paradies script fixed
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 #421 –
works great! do you think you could add a script for last.fm? or another website with a lot of artist images? cause i prefer artist images instead of album covers.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #422 –
It's not designed for artist images, really. There is a script for http://artists.trivialbeing.org, but that seems to have been "Temporarily Offline" for long enough that it's return now seems unlikely.

To replace it, here's a script for Last FM artist images: lastfm-artist.boo.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #423 –
ohh thank you
while it's not designed for artist images, it's working as good as for album covers!

one aditional question: the aspect ratio is between 0 and 1.
so this means 640x480 has the same ratio as 480x640? 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?

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #424 –
Because of ColumnsUI NGplaylist I'm now also one of those AlbumArt hunting folks. Haven't tested your component yet, but anyway: Thank you.

OMG, the .Net framework 3.5 redist package is 195 MB.