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Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #650 –
First off - Should I be adding this as a reply, or as a new topic?

Second - Thanks to Alex, daju and Marc for a very useful tool.

Thirdly - Is there a manual that describes how I achieve the following:

I would like AAD to scan by \folder\subfolder\ and then AAD to let me choose & download a jpg into the subfolder, and to rename it folder.jpg.

I thought I had already achieved this, but I'm getting very confused.  (Does AAD save settings?)

Thanks,

Richard

PS - I would happily be pointed towards some documentation on this.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #651 –
Quote from: TheOnlyRick on
Replying to the thread is the right way to go.

Unfortunately, there isn't any proper documentation, no.

To do what you are asking, you need to use the File Browser window. After starting Album Art Downloader, click File, New, File Browser. Point it at the root folder within which the subfolders you want to put images into are using the "..." button, or entering the path directly, then click the Search button.

By default, it will scan the ID3 tags of music files it finds within the folders to determine the artist and album name to search for for each folder. If this doesn't produce the expected results, let me know how you want it to determine what the artist and album name for any given subfolder should be.

Once you've got the list of albums to search for, select those you want to search and download images for and click the "Get Artwork for Selection" button.

I'm not sure what else there is to say, really, so if you get stuck on anything in particular, just ask.

AAD does save its settings, yes.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #652 –
Thanks for the speedy reply - I'm gust giving it a go now.

I got AAD to search based on \folder\subfolder (which is \artist\album)

In the 'Save images to' field, I told it to name the downloaded JPGs as 'folder.jpg' and put them in the same folder as the mp3s.

But:
- Once it copied the existing folder structure (\artist\album) on the root of my hard drive and put in the JPG.
- Another time it copied the folder structure, but put it under 'My Pictures'.
- The final variation was that it saved the JPG as folder.jpg in the right folder, but when carrying out subsequent downloads, it would not rename it to 'folder.jpg' and instead just keep it with the original name.

I'll get back with my results.  Thanks,

Richard


Quote from: AlexVallat on
Quote from: TheOnlyRick on
Replying to the thread is the right way to go.

Unfortunately, there isn't any proper documentation, no.

To do what you are asking, you need to use the File Browser window. After starting Album Art Downloader, click File, New, File Browser. Point it at the root folder within which the subfolders you want to put images into are using the "..." button, or entering the path directly, then click the Search button.

By default, it will scan the ID3 tags of music files it finds within the folders to determine the artist and album name to search for for each folder. If this doesn't produce the expected results, let me know how you want it to determine what the artist and album name for any given subfolder should be.

Once you've got the list of albums to search for, select those you want to search and download images for and click the "Get Artwork for Selection" button.

I'm not sure what else there is to say, really, so if you get stuck on anything in particular, just ask.

AAD does save its settings, yes.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #653 –
Working like a dream.  Incredible, thanks!

Am I right in saying that any changes to the options in the Album Art Downloader window won't 'carry over' to the next window if I have a load of searches queued up?


One question.  Sometimes I click on an image and it downloads and shows in max resolution.  Sometimes it disappears.  Why does it disappear/Where does it go?

Thanks,

Richard

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #654 –
Quote from: TheOnlyRick on
Am I right in saying that any changes to the options in the Album Art Downloader window won't 'carry over' to the next window if I have a load of searches queued up?
They should do. This was fixed in version 0.20 - so long as you have that version or newer, the latest options should be applied to each new window as it comes off the queue.

Quote from: TheOnlyRick on
Sometimes I click on an image and it downloads and shows in max resolution.  Sometimes it disappears.  Why does it disappear/Where does it go?
If you hold the mouse down over an image, a preview at full size (or as large as will fit on the screen, if full size would be larger than that) is shown. When you release the mouse button, the preview is no longer shown. The full size image will only be downloaded once, though, so if you then save or preview the image, it will use the full size image that is still in memory. It will be removed from memory when the window is closed, or a new search done in the same window.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #655 –
First AlexVallat thanks for your great soft, I use it with foobar2000 and foo_run and it is very useful to me.

I am am looking for a way to select all sources without having to name them all (I sometimes only need some of them, and sometimes all of them), is there a command line parameter to do that ?

I also noticed a small bug : launching AlbumArt.exe with /exclude "" in command line makes it crash.
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Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #656 –
Thanks for reporting the bug, I've reproduced it, fixed it, and it will be included in the next release. Incidentally, this is a bug with any "" parameter, not just /exclude.

I'm afraid there isn't any way of selecting all sources from the command line at present. I've added it as a feature request though: 2442822

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #657 –
Just slightly adjusted my foo_run command line to have it display .jpg .jpeg and .png images.
It's using foobar's $directory_path function (a bit more straightforward).
Just wanted to share that.

AAD is a wonderfully useful tool! Thank you, Alex. 

Code: [Select]
C:\TOOLS\Sound\AlbumArtDownloader\AlbumArt.exe 
/ar "%album artist%" 
/al "%album%" 
/p "$directory_path(%path%)\'%preset%'.'%extension%'" 
/localImagesPath "$directory_path(%path%)\**\*.*g"

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #658 –
[quote name='TheOnlyRick' post='604713' date='Dec 15 2008, 01:10']Sometimes I click on an image and it downloads and shows in max resolution.  Sometimes it disappears.  Why does it disappear/Where does it go?[/quote]If you hold the mouse down over an image, a preview at full size (or as large as will fit on the screen, if full size would be larger than that) is shown. When you release the mouse button, the preview is no longer shown. The full size image will only be downloaded once, though, so if you then save or preview the image, it will use the full size image that is still in memory. It will be removed from memory when the window is closed, or a new search done in the same window.
[/quote]

I'm fairly sure that a few times there have been (for example) 10 pictures in the preview window.  I click on an image - it appears full size and then disappears - leaving only 9 picture in the preview window.

Thanks once again - AAD was helpful in getting more artwork onto my iPod.

Now all I need to do is sort out why the iPod database gets so messed up.


Cheers,

Richard

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #659 –
Do you have min or max size filter settings enabled? And do you have "automatically download full-size images" to "Never"? If yes, this is my guess what happens: the source returns images with no size information (= all "unknown" size images are shown), then you preview it (= size becomes known), after closing the preview (releasing mouse button) the image disappears because its filtered by either min or max setting.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #660 –
Quote from: Akkurat on
Do you have min or max size filter settings enabled? And do you have "automatically download full-size images" to "Never"? If yes, this is my guess what happens: the source returns images with no size information (= all "unknown" size images are shown), then you preview it (= size becomes known), after closing the preview (releasing mouse button) the image disappears because its filtered by either min or max setting.


Hmmmm...  I replied to this yesterday, but obviously didn't click submit at the end.


Thanks - you're spot on - and now it looks kinda obvious!  The problems only appeared after I had a bit of a fiddle to customise and optimise the AAD experience.

Next on my list is to sort out the syncing probs between Winamp and my 'Pod (but I think a format and reinstall of XP might be the only thing to sort that one...)

Cheers,

Richard

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #661 –
Apart from some »Illegal Path" messages, really working great. (Drag ’n’ drop usually saves the image with exactly the same name it was supposed to use when clicking on »Save«.)

Seems that AllCdCover have changed something: Since today, I sometimes get a »full resolution« image showing a CD and a text like »Yes, we have the cover you are looking for but we cannot show it to you. You seem to be using an old link or something else is broken.«.

This seems intermittent, so I’m not sure who to blame: AAD or AllCdCover.
Just to let everyone know and maybe get some feedback.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #662 –
About AllCdCover, read my older post from this thread (read that post and 2 next ones).

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #663 –
Yep, thanks! Hunting things down in so many forums, bug reporting systems and mailing lists leads to missing some posts …

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #664 –
Is there an "options/preferences" window or ini file I can edit to change settings or am I stuck with the defaults and having to change them manually each time?

thanks!
IndieRockSteve

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #665 –
Quote from: IndieRockSteve on
Is there an "options/preferences" window or ini file I can edit to change settings or am I stuck with the defaults and having to change them manually each time?
You shouldn't need to change them each time, all preferences are persisted. If you are having trouble with some particular setting being forgotten, then please give me some more details and I will look into it for you.

You could try just running Album Art Downloader, changing the setting, exiting, then restarting it and checking that it has kept the new value.

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #666 –
Album Art Downloader XUI v0.25 Released
There have been some minor feature requests and bug fixes that have been piling up for frankly a shameful amount of time, so I thought I'd do a New-Year's clear out of them. Here's a new release which brings me up to date with all the changes I always meant to get around to sometime.

Full list of changes in this version:
  • Fixed bug where empty quoted command line paramters would cause a crash
  • Valid command line parameters for aad.exe that are not valid for AlbumArt.exe will now be silently ignored rather than reported as errors.
  • Fixed bug where Stop All would appear after modifying a search such that no further sources were searched.
  • Added /orientation parameter to aad.exe to require landscape or portrait results only.
  • Added "all" option to the /sources parameter to select all available sources (/sources all)
  • Added %type% placeholder, which is substituted by "Front", "Back", "Inlay", "CD" or "Unknown".
  • When sorting by image size, images now are sorted by height too, if they have the same width.
Download:
AlbumArtDownloaderXUI.exe (Installer. Recommended)
AlbumArtDownloaderXUI.zip (zip archive for those who don't like installers)
.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (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 #667 –
First of all, thank you for this wonderful application!
Now, I have one problem (ERROR) and 3 requests.

The problem:
when I try to download an album art for a song that already has an album art, and then press save,
I get a permission error, and the album art isn't saved.

The requests:
1. add an option to search only for album arts that their width and height are the same
2. add an option to search for album arts by their exact width&height (the min/max bug was fixed in latest version)
3. add an option to block all the unknown-size pictures

Thanks!

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #668 –
Quote from: WebFox on
Are you sure the art file you are trying to replace is not read-only, and that you (or the user that launched Album Art Downloader) have the necessary security permissions to overwrite it?

Searching for albums with a specific width and height, or width/height ratio, can't be done; the sources don't support that. I could add filtering to hide results which didn't match, though.

You can already filter for art with an exact size - click the Options link, then in the "Filter by image size" box enter the same number as both the minimum and maximum. I appreciate that without being able to specify a 1:1 aspect ratio, this might not meet all your requirements, though.

Finally, if you want to block unknown size pictures, simply uncheck the sources that do not provide size information. There are no sources that sometimes provide size information and sometimes don't, so if you see an unknown size result, just look at the name of the source for it, and uncheck it.

You might find it more useful to set the option to automatically download full size images when the size is unknown instead though - up to you.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #669 –
Quote from: AlexVallat on
...

Thanks, I didn't see the full-size option!
I found the reason why the replacing didn't work, but I can't find a way to fix that:
the WMP downloads Folder.jpg from the internet and makes it a system file.
That's the reason you can't replace it.
And that's also the reason why I no longer use WMP.
Anyway, How can I remove all system Album Arts' from all my music folders?

Thank you!

EDIT: I erased all the album arts where the file size was too low, and downloaded them again.
Now everything works just fine.

Quote
I could add filtering to hide results which didn't match

That would be great if you would to that. ^^

Thanks for everything

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #670 –
You can do this from the command line using:

attrib -s -h -r folder.jpg /s

to remove system, hidden and readonly attributes from all files named folder.jpg in the current folder and all sub folders.

If you really want to delete them, del /s folder.jpg will delete all files named folder.jpg in the current folder and all sub folders (be careful with that one!)

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #671 –
Quote from: AlexVallat on
You can do this from the command line using ...

I guess you didn't see that I've edited my post? (thanks for the solution anyway. good to know that)
 

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #672 –
Hi,

This program worked fine for me in the past, but I had to reinstall Vista. The first time I ran AAD, it said that Framework 3.5 wasn't installed so the interface turned a bit ugly (windows 2000 like). Since this time, I have downloaded and installed .Netframework 3.5 SP1, but I still have this UI...
I think the program keeps his settings, but I don't know how to change it :s
Need help !

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #673 –
Quote from: Maxoo on
There is no specific "ugly-ui" mode in AAD. If you do not have .net 3.5 SP1 installed, it just runs a little slower. If you don't have .net 3.5 installed at all, then it won't even run.

The only thing I can think of is if you have set Windows to the "Classic" theme, but that would affect everything, not just AAD.

If it really is just AAD affected, then all I can suggest is uninstalling it and re-installing it.

Alex

Album Art Downloader XUI

Reply #674 –
The new version works fine here. Thanks Alex for adding the "/source all" switch.
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