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

[fuffi]

hi, another *small* issue :-)

my settings:

"e:\Programme\foobar2000\components\AlbumArtDownloaderXUI\AlbumArt.exe" "%artist%" "%album%" "$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)%album%.jpg"

will produce this in the log:
[20:20:08] Successful execution of "shell32.dll,ShellExec_RunDLL "e:\Programme\foobar2000\components\AlbumArtDownloaderXUI\AlbumArt.exe" "?" "?" "D:\music\?.jpg""

it a song without any tags.

i know, that what AAD is doing here is right, because the commandline told him to do, but i know too, he cant write such a filename "?.jpg" to the disk, so he shouldnt try ;-) because it gives an error.

suggestion:
better to replace illegal chars
or, if illegal chars found, ask the user to rename it by hand.

This post has been edited by fuffi: Sep 17 2007, 19:27

[AlexVallat]

cant write such a filename "?.jpg" to the disk, so he shouldnt try ;-) because it gives an error.

This "Illegal Characters in Filename" crash is already fixed for the next version, as mobyduck reported it.

For your settings bug, please try deleting the folder "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\user\Lokale Einstellungen\Anwendungsdaten\AlbumArtDownloader" and running Album Art Downloader again. That will reset all your settings for it, but it should run again. If you used the Installer, then uninstalling and re-installing will do this automatically.

Also, could I suggest you wrap long crash reports in codebox tags in your posts, so that they don't take up so much space? It makes the thread easier to read for everyone.

Alex

[fuffi]

For your settings bug, please try deleting the folder "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\user\Lokale Einstellungen\Anwendungsdaten\AlbumArtDownloader" and running Album Art Downloader again. That will reset all your settings for it, but it should run again. If you used the Installer, then uninstalling and re-installing will do this automatically.

i deleted the folder and AAD did not crash again. thank you.