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

[Jojo]

can this be used with iTunes? http://www.thejosher.net/iTunes/

[david_dl]

can this be used with iTunes? http://www.thejosher.net/iTunes/

Hmm, it looks like unencrypted iTMS art is available, wonderful. There's a script included with my original 'CoverDownloader' for iTMS, i'll try and convert it. I don't know if it will still work with the XUI version, i haven't been keeping up with the changes.

Edit: Arggh, this 'josh' guy hasn't provided updated source code (that I can see). But from his description the changes necessary shouldn't be too difficult. Here's the original code if anyone wants to try.

Note: THIS CODE DOESN'T WORK, ONLY USE IT IF YOU INTEND TO FIX IT. Also the script itself's probably not compatible with Alex's modifications, any changes necessary should be slight.

CODE

# refs: ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll System.Windows.Forms
namespace CoverSources
import System.Xml
import System.Drawing
import util
import ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib

class iTMS:
static def GetPageSecret(url as string):
request as System.Net.HttpWebRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(url)
request.UserAgent="iTunes/7.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4.7)"
request.Headers.Add("X-Apple-Tz","7200")
request.Headers.Add("X-Apple-Store-Front","143457")
request.Headers.Add("Accept-Language","en-us, en;q=0.50")
request.Headers.Add("Accept-Encoding","gzip, x-aes-cbc")
response = request.GetResponse()
return response.GetResponseStream()
static SourceName as string:
get: return "iTunes Music Store"
static SourceVersion as decimal:
get: return 0.1
static def GetThumbs(coverart,artist,album):
x=System.Xml.XmlDocument()
t=GetPageSecret("http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/coverArtMatch?an="+EncodeUrl(artist)+"&pn="+EncodeUrl(album))
x.Load(ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.GZip.GZipInputStream(t))
tags=x.GetElementsByTagName("dict")
if tags.Count==0:
return
url=""
albumname=album
for tag in tags[0].ChildNodes:
if tag.InnerText=="cover-art-url":
url=tag.NextSibling.InnerText
if tag.InnerText=="playlistName":
albumname=tag.NextSibling.InnerText
if url.Length>0:
coverart.SetCountEstimate(1)
coverart.AddThumb(GetPageSecret(url),albumname,600,600,null)
static def GetResult(param):
return null

This post has been edited by david_dl: Sep 11 2007, 06:26

[AlexVallat]

Also the script itself's probably not compatible with Alex's modifications, any changes necessary should be slight.

XUI should be backwards compatible with old scripts. Looking at this one, the only difficulty with it I see is that it needs a reference to ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll, which is not included with Album Art Downloader. If you download that dll and stick it (the net-20 version) in your Album Art Downloader XUI folder, it will compile and run just fine.

It won't actually download any art, though, unfortunately. However, trying a few searches on http://www.thejosher.net/iTunes/, including his example, shows that he can't download any art either:

Warning: gzinflate() [function.gzinflate]: data error in /home/josh/public_html/iTunes/index.php on line 122

Oh well.

Alex