Album Art Downloader XUI, A tool for downloading cover art Options

[AlexVallat]

AlbumArtDownloader XUI - You know you want it...

This project is a rewrite of the Album Art Downloader code, using .NET Framework 3.5.

Features:

• Dynamically resizeable thumbnails
• Thumbnail information
• Sort by Name, Size, Source, Type, and Page
• Filter results under or over a specified size, or by type (front, back, etc.), or by maximum results for each source
• Substitution syntax path to save images
• Local files search that matches save pattern
• Enable or disable scripts from the command line
• New strongly typed interface-based script model; write compiled scripts in any .net language
• Backwards compatible with existing scripts
• Backwards compatible with existing command line parameters, including old CoverDownloader parameters.
• Analyse files to find Artists and Albums from tags, and check if album art is already present.
• Analyse folder and file names to find Artist and Album names based on a path pattern, and check for album art.
• Read your foobar2000 media library or playlists to find Artists and Albums, and check for album art.
• Checks for existing album art embedded in file tags.
• Queue up multiple searches to occur sequentially.
• Automatically download album art that matches set criteria for several albums as a batch.
• Show previews windows to compare art side by side, zooming and panning to check details.
• Many, many scripts included. (I would seriously not recommend using all of them at once, choose the ones that suit you best.)
• Prioritised searching - can set some sources to always search, and some to only search if the first ones didn't find anything.

For the graphically-minded out there, although this app isn't skinnable, the UI is all created in XAML, so if you want to grab the source and start editing the UI, please feel free. It is under the XUI folder in the SVN Repository

Links:
SourceForge project page
Wiki and reference guide (incomplete)
Donations

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)

This post has been edited by AlexVallat: Jun 27 2011, 20:19

[fooruncle]

Hi,

I still use the old version on my old notebook for performance reasons. I hadn't used it for some weeks, and yesterday the discogs script failed with the following warning:

Retrieving Art Failed
Capacity must be positive
parameter name: capacity

I thought that the script was outdated, so i copied the discogs-script from the .zip of the XUI-version. It compiled without problems, but I still get the same error message.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks,
frncle

[AlexVallat]

Hi,

I still use the old version on my old notebook for performance reasons. I hadn't used it for some weeks, and yesterday the discogs script failed with the following warning:

Retrieving Art Failed
Capacity must be positive
parameter name: capacity

I thought that the script was outdated, so i copied the discogs-script from the .zip of the XUI-version. It compiled without problems, but I still get the same error message.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks,
frncle

Discogs script seems to be working fine for me. Can you post the artist and album you searched for?

Alex

[fooruncle]

Discogs script seems to be working fine for me. Can you post the artist and album you searched for?

Alex

I tried it with several CDs and records I ripped last week. Some examples are:

Company Flow - End to End Burners
D'Nell - 1st Magic
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom

The preview pictures do appear, but as soon as I try to preview or save them, I get the error message (or a connection time out in some cases...). Amazon works perfectly...

frncle

[AlexVallat]

The preview pictures do appear, but as soon as I try to preview or save them, I get the error message (or a connection time out in some cases...). Amazon works perfectly...

frncle

I tried the searches you mentioned, and they seem to be working fine for me too. As you say that the results are actually returned, it is just the full size downloads which don't, I suspect that the problem is a bug with the old Album Art Downloader you are using. The discogs script doesn't actually have smaller thumbnails available, it uses the same image for both thumbnail and full size, so if it can show the thumbnail, then it should have the full size one available too.

You could try using the XUI one and seeing if the same problem occurs with that. I'm afraid I'm not going to be investigating or fixing bugs in the old version, though.

Alex

[fooruncle]

You could try using the XUI one and seeing if the same problem occurs with that. I'm afraid I'm not going to be investigating or fixing bugs in the old version, though.

Hmmm, the script definitly worked several weeks before... However, I completely reinstalled the old version and it works now... Whatever happened, I can't explain it. The only possibility I see is that I returned to an old version of the old version when I had to reinstall my pc with an old backup of the system partition last month. I can't verify that now. Thanks for your help! I really love your program!

frncle