Maybe the fact that I'm almost exclusively using the browser and that I was expecting to have the same set of settings is what made me a little bit confused.

I just downloaded a nifty little open source app for Windows called Album Art Downloader.  It's an easy-to-use program that lets you, yeah you guessed it, download album art for all your digital music files.  You can either search manually or it can scan a specific music folder or your foobar2000 library/playlists for albums that are missing artwork.  Not only that, but this thing lets you write custom search scripts so you can basically use any searchable web site as a source for the artwork.  Guess what I'm gonna ask next?  I need to know if it's possible for someone to write a script so we can use VGMdb as an artwork source within the program.

Here's a sample of one of the search scripts (for some site called MusicMight).  Can anyone decipher how it's getting the search results and displaying them within the program?  This would be so epic if someone got this to work.

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import System
import System.Text.RegularExpressions
import AlbumArtDownloader.Scripts
import util

class MusicMight(AlbumArtDownloader.Scripts.IScript):
    Name as string:
        get: return "MusicMight"
    Version as string:
        get: return "0.3"
    Author as string:
        get: return "Alex Vallat"
    def Search(artist as string, album as string, results as IScriptResults):
        if String.IsNullOrEmpty(album):
            return //Only searching on album is supported

        album = StripCharacters("&.'\";:?!", album)
            
        //Retrieve the search results page
        searchResultsHtml as string = GetPage("http://www.musicmight.com/search?t=recording&q=" + EncodeUrl(album))
        
        matches = Regex("<a\\s[^>]*?href\\s*=\\s*'(?<url>[^']+)'[^>]*?>\\s*<img\\s[^>]+?src\\s*=\\s*'http://s3\\.amazonaws\\.com//mmimagesm/(?<img>[^']+)'[^>]*?>(?<title>.*?)</td>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Singleline).Matches(searchResultsHtml)
        
        if matches.Count == 0: //Try single page result
            matches = Regex("\"http://s3\\.amazonaws\\.com//mmimagelg/(?<img>[^\"]+)\"[^>]*?>.*?<h4><span id=\"artistTitle\">(?:(?:<[^>4]+>)(?<title>[^<]+)?)+</h4>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Singleline).Matches(searchResultsHtml)
        
        results.EstimatedCount = matches.Count
        
        for match as Match in matches:
            img = match.Groups["img"].Value
            title = ""
            for capture as Capture in match.Groups["title"].Captures:
                title += capture.Value
            title = title.Replace("<br />", "").Replace("</a>", "").Replace("&bull;", "-");

            url as string = null
            if match.Groups["url"].Success:
                url = "http://www.musicmight.com" + match.Groups["url"].Value
            
            results.Add("http://s3.amazonaws.com//mmimagesm/" + img, title, url, -1, -1, "http://s3.amazonaws.com//mmimagelg/" + img, CoverType.Front);

    def RetrieveFullSizeImage(fullSizeCallbackParameter):
        return fullSizeCallbackParameter;

Basically it looks like it goes to the search page http://vgmdb.net/search?q=blah and then parses out the results using Regex.  Once that Regex line kicks in, that's where I get lost, haha.  Maybe this is best for someone with Regex experience?

Here's an example of the search results within the program itself.  These results here are kinda questionable and pretty unorganized since I had every search site selected.  If we were to just use VGMdb for this same search, these results would be immaculate.  Note that you can either have the program show you these results and then you save each one manually OR it can just save the first result (for each type.. front, back, disc, etc) automatically in the folder you choose:

[a href="http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/8302/55875305.png" target="_blank"]

Can somebody with Regex experience see if they can create a VGMdb source script?

Sure, we don't have anything specifically for game music at the moment, so it's a good addition. Unfortunately the artwork they have is all quite small, but it's better than nothing.

Please give this a try and let me know how you get on: vgmdb.boo

There's no way to get the script to log itself into VGMdb, is there?

For some albums, I've noticed that if the Artist field is populated, then there won't be any search results in the Search window.  Clearing the Artist field and manually pressing Search again yields actual search results.

Also, since video game music albums often have multiple artists, it would be awesome if there was a way to somehow condense each result (in the Foobar Browser and the File Browser) to only show one result per album, not a separate album for every different artist on that particular album.

The only other thing I've noticed is that the search results don't always display every scan for a certain album

What I could try to do is have marked spots in the script to easily add your own login details. Then, if you edit the script to provide those it will log itself in with those, otherwise it will just use the publicly available medium sized images. I'll look into that when I get a chance.

I was using the "composer" field of the advanced search for that, which I guess isn't right. Would "performer" make more sense here, do you think? Or should it be just ignored?

This should already happen. If there are multiple artists for a single album, it lists it as "Various Artists". For this to work, the album tracks must have identical Album tags, and be in the same folder. Looking at your screenshot, I can't see any obvious reason why 2197 shouldn't have been listed as a single "Various Artists" album - are all the tracks in the same folder?

If you give me specific albums to check, I'll see what I can do. I've already looked at Xenoblade Special Sound Track, and determined that the cause is that it doesn't have the "Covers" block on the right hand side (which is what I was scraping). Presumably this is because it has only a single cover - I can fix that: vgmdb.boo v0.2

am I understanding that my artist tag must exactly match to at least one of the composers on VGMdb, or the entire composer list?

It's a bug in the Foobar Browser.  It works properly in the File Browser

    VGMDB_UserName = "the_miker"
    VGMDB_Password = "12345"

Login was trickier than I thought. Still, should be working now. vgmdb.boo v0.3 should work the same as before, but if you edit the script first and enter your login details at the top where it's marked

I'm only seeing a maximum of 10 search results even if there are more than 10 images for a particular album

If "Various Artists" is the Artist in a search, it will never get results.  Maybe ignore artist all together, or at the very least when it's Various Artists?

Can you make it so any image on VGMdb with "front" in the name shows up as "Front" in the search results?  Booklet <anything>, for example, shows as "Inside"

Sometimes it takes a long time (2-3 minutes) to save an image

Click the little "..." on the bottom right of the source to expand the options for it. Uncheck the "Limit to 10 results" box, or just adjust it to whatever limit you feel most appropriate. I think the site itself only returns 30, though.

I'll ignore Artist if it's Various Artists, then. I'd prefer not to ignore Artist otherwise, on general principles - it's better to remove it if unwanted than to be unable to specify it if required. Updated: vgmdb.boo

This was deliberate. If it's the front of the booklet, then it's Inside the case. The Front is what appears on the front of the case. If you want to customise your own copy of the script, look at the GetCoverType method at the bottomof the script. You can edit that to return whatever type for whatever string you want, so long as it is one of Front, Back, CD, Inside or Unknown.

My guess would be server issue. Possibly deliberate throttling, but in any case, it's nothing that the script is doing. Once the full size image is retrieved (if you preview it, for example), saving should be instantaneous, though - if that's not the case then there's something going wrong with AAD.

Just wanted to let you know the Juno.co.uk script seems to have stopped working.

Wiki and Reference Guide
I've started a wiki on SourceForge for this project: Album Art Downloader XUI Wiki.

It's still a bit bare bones, but I've started to fill in a reference guide. Hopefully I'll get around to writing more some time, and even more hopefully if anyone else would like to contribute, that would be most welcome. Suggestions for the FAQ page would also be useful - just edit the page to add your suggested question and I'll edit in an answer (or remove the question and reply to you directly, if I don't think it's of general interest).

If the wiki ever does become complete or useful enough, I'll add a link to it on the Help menu of AAD.

Alex

I'd be very interested in the script writing section.