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

[pirlouy]

Ah, OK, the Local Files search is special. I can't see exactly what file save path you are using, so I can't give you a complete answer, but the Local Files search tries to find existing files on your hard disk based on the save path and album/artist you are searching for.

Oops: D:\Mes documents\Ma musique\[07]pochettes\Madonna - Die Another Day.jpg (%artist% - %title%.jpg)

I have the jacket of Massive Attack and another called "Madonna - Die Another Day.jpg", so it should have shown me this file and not Massive Attack one.

I don't think automatically renaming second copies of files fits in very well with Album Art Downloader functionality. The idea is that you are downloading the art for an album, so once chances are if it already exists, you either want to keep it, or replace it with a better version, not save another copy.

That's what I thought until now, but since I've been using foo_uie_albumart, it could cycle between several images, so I can save several images if I want. Of course, I can change path manually, but it would have been easier if... But I can understand you don't want to add a lot of options...

Thanks for your answer.