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

[david_dl]

Here is an updated version of the iTMS script that can get fullsized art for even more albums. However sometimes the fullsized art will be large, and in TIFF format. I don't know if it's possible to report the filetype from the GetResult function (as it cannot be determined before GetResult is called), so you may end up with AlbumArtDownloader saving a TIFF as .jpg. The resultant file still works in foobar and windows picture gallery though, at least on vista.

Attached File(s)

 itunes.rar ( 982bytes ) Number of downloads: 1081

 

[AlexVallat]

you may end up with AlbumArtDownloader saving a TIFF as .jpg.

If you have this problem, make sure that the filename pattern to save as doesn't end in .jpg, but ends in .%extension% instead. That way AlbumArtDownloader will determine the extension automatically from the image format, and correctly use .tif instead of .jpg.

Just one question, David, is there any reason you've chosen to use the older headers again, rather than the ones you suggested in your post here?

Also, could you give an example of a search that returns a tiff, for testing?

Thanks,

Alex