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How to Automate adding of Album Art using Album Art Downloader

I just downloaded Album Art Downloader .. and it does help find album art very well.  I can run the application externally and find art .. and save it to the appropriate folder along with my mp3 files for the needed album.

However .. I would like to make things a bit easier. After saving the above Front.jpg file from AAD ... I use Run Command (foo_runcmd) --> Tagging / Attach Pictures / Front Cover .. navigate to downloaded file and attach to selected album.

But .. is there a way to automate it a bit.  I would even be happy to add this command to the context menu as a separate "Attach Front Cover" .. as well as one for the "Attach Artist Pictures" as those are really the only 2 I use.

I would like to make adding of the correct album art to the albums somewhat easier .. but I am not sure how others are doing it and would like some advice on how to make things easier.

Sorry if this is newbie stuff .. but I am a self described newbie and just learning all this. 

Thanks ..
Just a guy who likes to tinker.

How to Automate adding of Album Art using Album Art Downloader

Reply #1 –
One of my biggest issues is in the Tagging --> Manage Attached Pictures --> Add ... I would really love if it was able to go to the folder that belongs to the selected item automatically.  I am pretty sure that it can happen as that would make things so much easier. But I am still interested in how people manage their album art .. I have lots of files that need updating.

EDIT:  I reinstalled Foobar .. as I realized I was in portable mode but .. the "Choose Picture To Embed" would be much nicer if it would go to the folder where the mp3 is stored by default .. can I do that ?
Just a guy who likes to tinker.

How to Automate adding of Album Art using Album Art Downloader

Reply #2 –
Quote from: edmscan on
EDIT:  I reinstalled Foobar .. as I realized I was in portable mode but .. the "Choose Picture To Embed" would be much nicer if it would go to the folder where the mp3 is stored by default .. can I do that ?


If you select "Batch attach" instead it would automate the process the way you want


As for AAD, I think it has option to integrate well with foobar, but I'll leave that for others to reply.

As alternative to AAD complexity, I can offer you 2 simple HTA scripts that can be used as foo_run actions to automate album cover and artist picture downloading:

1. coverSearch.hta
2. artistSearch.hta

How to Automate adding of Album Art using Album Art Downloader

Reply #3 –
Thanks for your reply ..

I did find how to use foo_run and Album Art Downloader .. and it works well. It is pretty good. I will go with that for now.
Just a guy who likes to tinker.

How to Automate adding of Album Art using Album Art Downloader

Reply #4 –
Quote from: edmscan on
Thanks for your reply ..

I did find how to use foo_run and Album Art Downloader .. and it works well. It is pretty good. I will go with that for now.



could you share this solution?
 

How to Automate adding of Album Art using Album Art Downloader

Reply #5 –
I personally use either the biography view component or one of marc2003's WSH panel mod scripts to pull album art from last.fm (or whichever mirror the latter uses).

For manual searches foo_covdow can be useful as well from within foobar or the aforementioned Album Art Downloader program. I only place a cover.* in the album folder and do nothing else, though.

How to Automate adding of Album Art using Album Art Downloader

Reply #6 –
none of my scripts download album art - they only download artist art from last.fm.

but my artreader and cd jewel case scripts to have options to launch AAD from the right click menu. it passes the current artist/album as search terms to AAD.

if you just want to do it with foo_run, you'll need to use something like

Code: [Select]
"c:\full\path\to\albumart.exe" /ar "%album artist%" /al "%album%"


AAD does have more command line options you can take a look at.

How to Automate adding of Album Art using Album Art Downloader

Reply #7 –
(Correction then: biography panel pulls album art and marc2003's script artist art. I wasn't at my PC so I couldn't check and remembered wrong.)