Quote from: directjj on 2006-08-16 22:56:04

[quote name='pepoluan' date='Aug 16 2006,
Once I have the photo from my own scan, or Buy.com, Amazon.com, or some other download (Usenet, P2P) I almost always tweak it in some way in Photoshop Elements before printing.

Just out of interest, why do you print album art? I thought generally the problem was that people have a hardcopy of the art (in their CD jewel case) and want a digital representation on their computer (so that they can associate it with the ripped tracks.) Downloading art off the internet is of course a lot easier than scanning it yourself.

The only type of person who would print album art at home that I can think of is a pirate, but I'm sure you have a legitimate reason

Hello!

Does anybody know how to write a script for searching covers on Amazo.de. I#ve got a lot of german audiobooks without covers.

Thanx for reply

You need to be a member of itunes in order to utilize the covers

I get this error from ITMS

• way to save album art while being previewed (maybe as doubleclick on it or from context menu; it could even close the window on doubleclick - would save few clicks).
• maybe "save as..." could start in the folder specified in "save to:" edit box
• quick way (probably as another context menu entry) to save image with name pre-set in the save dialog to artist - album string. it should remember the folder used between sessions (as "save as..." does now). the reason i would like this is that while searching for album art i sometimes get results which are not the right ones but interesting ones nonetheless. i would like to save them to one folder with name set to their titles to look the up later.

david_dl, i have few requests:

• way to save album art while being previewed (maybe as doubleclick on it or from context menu; it could even close the window on doubleclick - would save few clicks).

[/li][li] maybe "save as..." could start in the folder specified in "save to:" edit box

[/li][li] quick way (probably as another context menu entry) to save image with name pre-set in the save dialog to artist - album string. it should remember the folder used between sessions (as "save as..." does now). the reason i would like this is that while searching for album art i sometimes get results which are not the right ones but interesting ones nonetheless. i would like to save them to one folder with name set to their titles to look the up later.

And to whoever was working on the Google script, the new iTunes script shows how the User-Agent can be faked.

namespace CoverSources
import System.Xml
import System.Drawing
import System.Text.RegularExpressions
import util
import ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib

class GoogleImage:
	static def GetPageSecret(url as string):
		request as System.Net.HttpWebRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(url)
		request.UserAgent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"
		response = request.GetResponse()
		return response.GetResponseStream()
	static SourceName as string:
		get: return "GoogleImage"
	static SourceVersion as decimal:
		get: return 0.2
	static def GetThumbs(coverart,artist,album):
		# query = artist+" "+album
		# params = EncodeURL(query)
		# params.Replace('%20','+')
		params = "test"
		text = GetPageSecret("http://images.google.com/images?q="+params)
		r = Regex("""dyn\.Img\("([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)"\)""")
		iterator = r.Matches(text)
		coverart.SetCountEstimate(iterator.Count)
		for result as Match in iterator:
			coverart.AddThumb("http://www.images.google.com/images?q=tbn:"+result.Groups[3].Value+result.Groups[4].Value,result.Groups[7].Value,0,0,result.Groups[4].Valu
e)
	static def GetResult(param):
		return "http://"+param

Quote from: david_dl on 2006-09-22 11:01:48

And to whoever was working on the Google script, the new iTunes script shows how the User-Agent can be faked.

I tried incorporating the useragent routine into the script but I am unable to get the script to even compile anymore. I am in well over my head with regards to this script and have no idea what I am doing anymore. If anyone else would like to take over or at the very least give me some direction on where to go from here, this is the current state of my code: ... ...

namespace CoverSources
import System.Xml
import System.Drawing
import System.Text.RegularExpressions
import util

class GoogleImage:
    static def GetPageSecret(url as string):
        request as System.Net.HttpWebRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(url)
        request.UserAgent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"
        response = request.GetResponse()
        return response.GetResponseStream()
    static SourceName as string:
        get: return "GoogleImage"
    static SourceVersion as decimal:
        get: return 0.2
    static def GetThumbs(coverart,artist,album):
        query = artist+" "+album
        params = EncodeUrl(query)
        params.Replace('%20','+')
        textstream = GetPageSecret("http://images.google.com/images?q="+params)
        text = System.IO.StreamReader(textstream).ReadToEnd()
        r = Regex("""dyn\.Img\("([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)","([^"]*)"\)""")
        iterator = r.Matches(text)
        coverart.SetCountEstimate(iterator.Count)
        for result as Match in iterator:
            name=(result.Groups[7].Value.Replace("<b>","").Replace("</b>",""))
            coverart.AddThumb("http://www.images.google.com/images?q=tbn:"+result.Groups[3].Value+result.Groups[4].Value,name,0,0,result.Groups[4].Value)
    static def GetResult(param):
        return param

I get this error from ITMS

Quote from: Funkstar De Luxe on 2006-09-22 11:51:18

I get this error from ITMS

I do not know for sure but I think that error may equate to "album not found". I've been able to find many covers off ITMS but most of my more obscure albums generate the error your mentioned.

Here I have a request: is it possible to get the picture size (W x H) displayed next to its title?

thanks for including two new scripts - they work like very well here

Quote

Here I have a request: is it possible to get the picture size (W x H) displayed next to its title?

Oh, I would like see that feature, too.