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Reply #1350 – 2010-05-07 18:32:12

Quote from: zilexa on 2010-05-07 18:00:25

Is there a guide about how to use your tool?

Unfortunately, no, there isn't. There should be, though.

In answer to your specific question, if you click the Save button on the artwork you want for an album, it will be saved (a green tick appears over the save button when it's done) and the search window will close. If it doesn't, then click the Options link and make sure the "Automatically close after saving" box is checked. Or just close the window after saving.

As each search window closes another opens until all the (187) queued searches have been done. You can see the queued searches in the Queue Manager window; if it isn't visible you can bring it up from the Window menu.

If what you want is to automatically download the first matching artwork for all 187 albums without choosing each one then before clicking "Get Artwork For Selection" in the File Browser, click the Options link in that window and select "Automatically download and save the first result that meets set criteria" there. Now, when you click the Get Artwork button, a different window will open. I'd recommend making a careful choice of which sources to use, and possibly setting maximum and minimum size criteria before hitting the Start button if you choose to use this feature.

Alex

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Reply #1351 – 2010-05-07 18:36:48

Ok thanks for such a clear explanation! I was hoping for a "automatically pick first result" option. But I understand that might not satisfy me.
Googling around gives me a recommended size for album art is 300x300 pixels. The art will mainly be shown on my HTPC (XBMC for Windows) and I am planning to use an Android smartphone (X10 Mini Pro) as musicplayer. I think 300x300 is more than enough for a portable device..

EDIT:
Can't find an "Options" link anywhere I am using 0.34.1.
I suppose setting criteria such as max/min size is also done in Options?

EDIT:
Immediately found a pretty annoying thing when trying to select multiple albums in File browser:
When I click just a pixel beside the checkbox, all previous boxes are unchecked and only the one lastly clicked is selected. I can start over again.
Also, when clicking not very carefully on the next checkbox, you might hit the first again, causing the program to think I did a double-click and it will start searching.

Perhaps this happens because my mouse is less accurate because I use Teamviewer on my laptop to make a remote connection to my HTPC to perform this task.. will try directly on the pc.. but with the laptop I can just do it laying on the bed

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Reply #1352 – 2010-05-07 22:47:45

Quote from: zilexa on 2010-05-07 18:36:48

Can't find an "Options" link anywhere

Top left, just above the search results box (but under the search terms).

Quote from: zilexa on 2010-05-07 18:36:48

Immediately found a pretty annoying thing when trying to select multiple albums in File browser

How about ignoring the checkboxes and just using multi-select list semantics? Hold down Shift to select a continuous range, or Ctrl to toggle the selection of an individual item. This means, if you have Ctrl held down, clicking anywhere on the item is the same as clicking in the checkbox.

Alex

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Reply #1353 – 2010-05-09 10:42:38

Sorry, if this has been discussed before:

Is there a component for foobar that downloads automatically album arts?

I'd prefer not having to start an external program each time, I want to download an album art.

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Reply #1354 – 2010-05-11 10:36:04

Hi! I have a couple of collections of mp3s in a single album folder Hits of 80s etc.. How could I get the program to create a folder for each song and download the artwork for each song in that folder?

Thanks!

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Reply #1355 – 2010-05-11 10:57:31

Quote from: kieranmullen on 2010-05-11 10:36:04

How could I get the program to create a folder for each song and download the artwork for each song in that folder?

In the File Browser, do all the different songs appear in the list? If not, then dragging and dropping just that folder on to the list so that it processes it individually, rather than as a potential single "various artists" album.

Once you have all the correct 'albums' listed in the file browser, the next step is to make it so that the art is stored in a separate folder for each one. To do this, in the Options area, change the "Specify path to find images" box to be: "%artist% - %album%\Folder%preset%.%extension%" (or similar - this example will result in sub folders like "Aerosmith - Big Ones" with an image file like "Folder.jpg" in them).

Then just use Get Artwork for Selection as normal.

Alex

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Reply #1356 – 2010-05-11 12:08:42

Hello,

thanks for great product first!

I'd like to open the proxy theme again - would it be possible to add proxy authentication? I'm behind proxy which requires authentication - therefore I press search and see in proxy logs many denied anonymous requests.

Thanks

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Reply #1357 – 2010-05-11 12:32:41

Quote from: Narag on 2010-05-11 12:08:42

would it be possible to add proxy authentication?

Album Art Downloader uses the system (or internet explorer) proxy settings. These can be accessed through Control Panel, Internet Options. If you've got authentication set up in there, it should just work.

Alex

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Reply #1358 – 2010-05-11 12:51:49

Quote from: AlexVallat on 2010-05-11 12:32:41

Quote from: Narag on 2010-05-11 12:08:42
would it be possible to add proxy authentication?
Album Art Downloader uses the system (or internet explorer) proxy settings. These can be accessed through Control Panel, Internet Options. If you've got authentication set up in there, it should just work.

Alex

Hi Alex,

that's really quick reply :-)
in Internet Options it¨s possible to set up proxy server, but not the authentication ... :-(

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Reply #1359 – 2010-05-11 13:18:14

Quote from: Narag on 2010-05-11 12:51:49

I don't use an authenticating proxy, so I don't know how one is usually set up for system-wide use, then.

I did put a nasty hack into AAD to let you force the proxy settings to use, though. You can download Proxy Configuration - AlbumArt.exe.config to use as a template. Edit that file to put your proxy information in the places marked, then save it as "AlbumArt.exe.config" in the same folder as AlbumArt.exe, and see if that helps at all.

Alex

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Reply #1360 – 2010-05-15 00:18:22

Hello All,

This program looks great!

I'm just running into one small problem that I can't sem to get around.

I use Sonos and they instructed me to name my artwork files "folder.jpg" not "Folder.jpg" (note the capital "F")

So, currently in my very large library, I have most things (except those missing artwork!) named "folder.jpg".

I figured out how to get it to search my library for 'folder.jpg' so that was good.

The problem is that I use the File Browser to find missing artwork. Then I select the albums I want to search for. For whatever reason, that search window always wants to save the file as "Folder.jpg".
No matter what I seem to try, I cannot get it to default to "folder.jpg".

I know I can manually edit the file name to change it to 'folder.jpg', but that makes the whole process take a lot longer and sort of makes this great program less useful (and less automated).

I assume there must be a way to fix this.

Can anyone help me out?

Many thanks in advance!

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Reply #1361 – 2010-05-15 08:05:58

Quote from: elite-rob on 2010-05-15 00:18:22

The problem is that I use the File Browser to find missing artwork. Then I select the albums I want to search for. For whatever reason, that search window always wants to save the file as "Folder.jpg".
No matter what I seem to try, I cannot get it to default to "folder.jpg".

In the File Browser window, click the Options link, then edit the "Path to search for images" box to say folder instead of Folder.

Alex

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Reply #1362 – 2010-05-15 19:48:46

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the reply.

I had already tried that and sadly it doesn't work.

In the File Browser I have this as the 'specify path to find images':
Folder%preset%.%extension%|folder.jpg

But, after doing a search for images, it still defaults back to "Folder.jpg".

On the search results screen, if I go to options, I can see it says "Images will be saved to" and it has "Folder%preset%.%extension%". But, that field cannot be edited.

Any other ideas?

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Reply #1363 – 2010-05-15 20:07:06

Quote from: elite-rob on 2010-05-15 19:48:46

In the File Browser I have this as the 'specify path to find images':
Folder%preset%.%extension%|folder.jpg

It defaults to the first option, so you're adding a (redundant) alternative rather than editing it. Just have "folder%preset%.%extension%", or just "folder.%extension%" if you know you won't be using presets. You could have "folder.jpg", but using %extension% instead means that if the image isn't a jpeg, it gets the correct extension assigned for it.

Alex

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Reply #1364 – 2010-05-16 22:50:18

Hi Alex,
a few weeks ago I ran into this problem when I'm trying to start AlbumArt.exe or aad.exe.
Well, the program crashes right after starting it and then Windows 7 tries to search for a solution.
After this I get a dump file from the crash. Actually I don't know what it means so perhaps you have an idea.
I think this problem appeared after installing MS Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 but after deinstalling these two the problem still exists. I also verified my .net Framework 3.5 SP1 files with Aaron Stebner's Verification Tool and every test was successful.

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Executable search path is: 
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Product: WinNt, suite: SingleUserTS
Machine Name:
Debug session time: Sun May 16 23:20:17.000 2010 (GMT+2)
System Uptime: 0 days 0:04:25.755
Process Uptime: 0 days 0:00:12.000
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Loading unloaded module list
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This dump file has an exception of interest stored in it.
The stored exception information can be accessed via .ecxr.
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Reply #1365 – 2010-05-17 08:09:19

Quote from: tomthomson on 2010-05-16 22:50:18

the program crashes right after starting it

Could you check if it produced an errorlog.txt file in the Album Art Downloader program folder? If not, could you try either granting full permissions to the Album Art Downloader program folder for the account you will be running it under, or moving it to a folder outside Program Files (which should by default have full permissions). If you run it again, then it may still crash, but hopefully might produce the errorlog.txt which would allow me to determine what the problem with it is.

Thanks,

Alex

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Reply #1366 – 2010-05-17 10:29:23

ok, perhaps crashing is the wrong word. Right after executing AlbumArt.exe the Windows problem solving procedure starts saying that Album Art Downloader doesn't work anymore. So I don't get any errorlog.txt produced by your program and I also tried different starting locations.
By the way - the aad.exe works now after reinstalling Framework 3.5 SP1.
Paint.net 3.5 works, too, which has framework 3.5 sp1 as an requirement.

Actually I think there's no problem with your program but I messed up my computer somehow
I hoped the minidump file would be of any help for the developer.

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Reply #1367 – 2010-05-18 08:54:51

Quick question for a great application...
When I run the application, I have to do File > New File Browser > Search (or run the CTRL B shortcut and select Search).
This means the original window that opens is effectively redundant.
Is there some way I can store the option to perform a scan of a stored drive when I launch the application rather than having to go through the menus or use the shortcuts.

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Reply #1368 – 2010-05-18 09:05:45

Quote from: tomthomson on 2010-05-17 10:29:23

I hoped the minidump file would be of any help for the developer.

Sorry, the only thing it tells me is that an error occurred somewhere within the internals of the .net framework - it doesn't give me a clue as to what the error was or what may have caused it.

Quote from: spile on 2010-05-18 08:54:51

Is there some way I can store the option to perform a scan of a stored drive when I launch the application rather than having to go through the menus or use the shortcuts.

Yes, change the command line of the shortcut you are using to open it to add the parameter /fileBrowser
If you want it to immediately start a scan of a specified folder, you can add that too, like: /fileBrowser "c:\music"

Alex

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Reply #1369 – 2010-05-18 20:50:26

Quote from: AlexVallat on 2010-05-18 09:05:45

Quote from: tomthomson on 2010-05-17 10:29:23
I hoped the minidump file would be of any help for the developer.
Sorry, the only thing it tells me is that an error occurred somewhere within the internals of the .net framework - it doesn't give me a clue as to what the error was or what may have caused it.

ok, anyhow thanks for your help and keep up your work on this very helpful tool!

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Reply #1370 – 2010-05-25 17:56:34

Thanks that works great!

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Reply #1371 – 2010-05-30 23:36:49

I'd like to save the artwork to the folder the album is located, but I have my library sorted like this:

E:\Music\%band%\[%date%] - %album%\%artist% - %track% - %title%

I guess what I want to know is will AAD recognize the %band% tag so I can set it to search/save in those folders? or can I set it to just save in the same fold that the mp3 is located in?

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Reply #1372 – 2010-05-31 07:36:39

Never mind, I found a solution to my problem.

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Reply #1373 – 2010-06-27 11:31:07

Album Art Downloader XUI v0.35 Released

Just a minor bug fixing release here, mostly to bring all the scripts up to date and remove the Lala and MusicMight scripts (as they no longer have working search services).

Other changes:

Interaction between context menu and auto select all in artist and album search boxes fixed
Stop All during Search First bug fixed
Updated scripts: ArkivMusic, Cover-Paradies, Coveralia, Juno-Records, Yes24

Download:
AlbumArtDownloaderXUI.exe (Installer. Recommended)
AlbumArtDownloaderXUI.zip (zip archive for those who don't like installers)
.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (required, except for Windows 7)

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Reply #1374 – 2010-06-30 17:19:52

I like this tool a lot, been using it for quite some time now but... there's a "but":

Settings seem to be quite a mess.

1. This program looks more like three things in one: Search window, File browser and Foobar browser. You might say I'm slow thinking but I think these things stay in sync only if you restart everything (maybe keeping the settings put in the last window closed) and there are settings that seem to belong only to one of the components. Maybe putting everything in one window with three tabs and an extra tab for settings would make things a little bit more clear.

2. Why the patterns for the search matching in File browser have to be the same as those for file saving? I've used to only keep the front cover (cover.jpg) so I'm looking for this file. But lately I've started looking for the other covers and name them front, back, cd, etc. Now I seem not to be able to look for cover.jpg and use one of the presets to save into front, back, etc.

So if anyone has any idea how to deal with these please give me some hints. AlexVallat if you consider these worth looking into you might take them into consideration for future versions.

Thanks!

Later edit: Also, a nice addition would be search engines profiles: one profile for a few selected ones, one for others, one for all (if, for example, the cover can only be found on amazon or google).

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