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Program to download album covers

Reply #100 –
Maybe you could try to use the last.fm database to find covers :

http://www.last.fm

Program to download album covers

Reply #101 –
One other thing I would like added is to have it automatically remove some parts of the folder name from the search.  It would be great it it ignored all () and [] and everything inbetween them.  Many of my albums have (Disc X) or [Remastered] and I have to delete these parts before I get results.  I don't think () and [] in a search will return any results so it shouldn't be a problem.

Program to download album covers

Reply #103 –
itunes album art would be nice...

Program to download album covers

Reply #104 –
Wow.. even I got this thing working, that got to mean something. Great job!

Program to download album covers

Reply #105 –
Anyone have an Openwith coinfiguration for this?

Program to download album covers

Reply #106 –
This is a really useful tool, especially because it has a command-line interface.

I've created a button which allows me to download the cover art for the current folder in my favourite file manager (Directory Opus) using a single click.

I had to write a bit of VBScript glue to convert from the folder name format I use (Artist - Year - Title) into the one the Album Art Aggregator command-line expects (Artist - Title) but that didn't take long and now it works great.

This will save me a lot of time. Thanks for making the tool and giving it a command-line interface!

If anyone else here uses Opus, or would find the VBScript useful (e.g. in another file manager), the Opus button and VBScript are both linked here. The VBScript does the substitution using regular expressions so it should be easy to adapt to other formats as well.

Program to download album covers

Reply #107 –
I am sorry if these suggestions have been made before, but I have not read the entire thread sorry 

Here is a few suggestions to get even more covers:

-Support amazon mirrors (amazon.de, amazon.co.uk, amazon.fr), each country differs in their catalogue.

-Add support, or change to allmusic.com. GREAT many covers are available there. Only problem is: I don't know how hard that is to implement!

Program to download album covers

Reply #108 –
yeah i would def. suggest last.fm or allmusic over amazon - the proportion of albums that are out of print (and therefore will never be sold by amazon) is simply too high

Program to download album covers

Reply #109 –
Would it be possible to list more than 3 results if there are more than 3 returned?  The trouble I noticed is for 'self titled' discs (Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden, Paradise Lost - Lost Paradise, etc).  It seems as if it returns the first 3 results, not seperating them by artist-album.

Program to download album covers

Reply #110 –
New version posted.

And OMG OMG OMG iTunes covers are 600x600 and someone has figured out how to query for them?! I must make it work, I will make it work. Thank you soooo much emfletcher for posting that URL. Yay!

Program to download album covers

Reply #111 –
I understand that there is a limit to the number of amazon queries but it would be nice to still allow for batch queries in the program, just space the queries out. Even if I have to let it run for a couple of days its way better then manual. And yes, adding some other sources such as iTunes would be amazing.

Program to download album covers

Reply #112 –
I understand you are using some sort of .NET web api thingy (something I know nothing about) to access the amazon.com covers. Would it not be easier to just rip them from the HTML pages? (avoiding the multiple request issue)

Also, on the topic of adding other engines, I have code for retrieving 500x500 images and 150x150 thumbnails from walmart, in C++ and C#, PM me if you want it.

Program to download album covers

Reply #113 –
This is truly a great application. Thank you! I do have 2 questions.   

My current folder structure is artist\album (year). My flac file are named "album (year).flac" (and .cue). Is it possible to save the jpg-file as "album (year).jpg"?

I keep a seperate folder with mp3 files. Is it possible to save the jpg-file in multiple folders (i.e. both flac and mp3)?

Program to download album covers

Reply #114 –
looks like a promising program!
could you make it possible to run it without .net because i really don't want to install it.

thanks in advance
fifo

Program to download album covers

Reply #115 –
Quote
This is truly a great application. Thank you! I do have 2 questions.  

My current folder structure is artist\album (year). My flac file are named "album (year).flac" (and .cue). Is it possible to save the jpg-file as "album (year).jpg"?

I keep a seperate folder with mp3 files. Is it possible to save the jpg-file in multiple folders (i.e. both flac and mp3)?
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That would be very nice as I do the same thing

Program to download album covers

Reply #116 –
GREAT Tool !!!! 


Maybe it would be a great feature , the possibility to find & download many cover in one click.

setup the directory structure , and let Album art aggregator finds and downloads covers for many cd, maybe adding new search engine
 

Program to download album covers

Reply #117 –
Quote
GREAT Tool !!!! 


Maybe it would be a great feature , the possibility to find & download many cover in one click.

setup the directory structure , and let Album art aggregator finds and downloads covers for many cd, maybe adding new search engine
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This is not done currently because of a limited number of requests that amazon allows. I suggested above to let the program do it automatically but over an extended period of time so manually there is little work involved but the request/time is not violated.

Program to download album covers

Reply #118 –
Finally added the ability to download covers for all your albums at once. Just added a time delay between queries, thanks to everyone who had that suggestion. Also added querying of amazon japan, uk and germany. Few other changes too.

Let me know who downloaded the new version because of the Update dropdown in the program  I'm really proud of that feature.

Program to download album covers

Reply #119 –
Will be testing it, Thanks alot & great work nexus :]

Program to download album covers

Reply #120 –
absolutely fantastic program.  thank you so much for releasing it to the public (and being open to our demands for more features! ).

how goes the work on making cover downloads from the itunes music store?  any idea when this might be available?  will you be adding a search for walmart.com as well?  i think if these things were implemented you just may have the best album cover downloader program on the planet!

keep up the great work!

Program to download album covers

Reply #121 –
This is indeed a great piece of software

I have found a bug though, which seems to have been introduced in this version.
I have the album name pattern set to "%artist% - (%year%) %album%", and in the album listing, the album from "Mindflow" is listed under "Mind's Eye", as well as the album really from "Mind's Eye".

So seemingly the apostrophe is not escaped, and this cause the wrong ordering. If my description does not really make sense, just say so, and I'll post a screenshot
Life is Real...
(But not in audio :) )

Program to download album covers

Reply #122 –
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This is indeed a great piece of software

I have found a bug though, which seems to have been introduced in this version.
I have the album name pattern set to "%artist% - (%year%) %album%", and in the album listing, the album from "Mindflow" is listed under "Mind's Eye", as well as the album really from "Mind's Eye".
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So seemingly the apostrophe is not escaped, and this cause the wrong ordering. If my description does not really make sense, just say so, and I'll post a screenshot
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If you could post a screenshot I'd appreciate it. That happened to me once when I was testing -- an album from one artist was placed under another artist -- but I was unable to reproduce it, so I didn't get a chance to fix whatever caused the problem.

If you don't mind, could you try to save an image for that album and tell me where it ends up on your computer (i.e. if it ends up in the proper folder even though it is displaying improperly). Thanks.

[edit]
Actually, I think I figured out what it was and fixed it. When you get a chance, download the program again and let me know if the problem is still occuring.

I didn't change the update-check, but the download contains the updated version (1.4.6100 instead of 1.4.6000 -- the program's titlebar will still only display 1.4.6, but you can see it in the Windows Explorer status bar or if you right click on the .exe and go to properties.)
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Program to download album covers

Reply #123 –
I downloaded the new version, and it works properly on this case now, too.
Thanks
Life is Real...
(But not in audio :) )

Program to download album covers

Reply #124 –
      

I downloaded the new version AMAZING!   

THANK A LOT!