Topic: feature request: Cover Art | Find With Browser (Read 3346 times)

jimbolla · « **on:** August 13, 2007, 08:20:20 pm »

A simple enhancement that would improve usability would be Cover Art | Find With Browser... One would right click on an album, choose this option, and MC would open the user's default web browser, and open up images.google.com, searching based on artist and album name. If the selected album is a multi-artist album, then just search by album name. If the user has multiple albums, it would open up one window/tab per album.

Osho · « **Reply #1 on:** August 13, 2007, 08:23:45 pm »

I second this suggestion. I have done this so many times manually looking for cover arts. This would definitely make it easier to find cover arts.

thanks,
Osho

mlefebvre · « **Reply #2 on:** August 14, 2007, 07:32:23 am »

Quote from: Osho on August 13, 2007, 08:23:45 pm

I second this suggestion. I have done this so many times manually looking for cover arts. This would definitely make it easier to find cover arts.

thanks,
Osho

I "third" this suggestion.

Look at the "compact with popup" Track Info: It features the ability to find the album cover for the currently playing song (via Google) PLUS it allows you to fire up the browser to Google for lyrics of the song.

Michel.

gappie · « **Reply #3 on:** August 14, 2007, 11:20:10 am »

you could make it yourself.

rightclick on a song. go to sent to>send to (external)>add/edit programms
click add
in name: google cover
in programm path: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
in parameter images.google.com//images?q=[artist] [album]&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

this does not take multiple artists in account. you could ofcourse make a calculated field especially for that, and use that for the cover search.

mlefebvre · « **Reply #4 on:** August 14, 2007, 12:28:24 pm »

Quote from: gappie on August 14, 2007, 11:20:10 am

you could make it yourself.

rightclick on a song. go to sent to>send to (external)>add/edit programms
click add
in name: google cover
in programm path: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
in parameter images.google.com//images?q=[artist] [album]&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

this does not take multiple artists in account. you could ofcourse make a calculated field especially for that, and use that for the cover search.

Thanks! I always forget about that trick...

... Michel.

maxxsid · « **Reply #5 on:** August 15, 2007, 10:47:47 am »

Hi gappie,
Thanks for the tip!
I tried this with Firefox - it doesn't work if Artist (or Album ) has more than one word - only passes the first word to the search trimming the rest. (works fine with IE, though).
For example: Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn passes only "Pink" to the search..

Any idea how to make it work with Firefox?

Thanks!
--max

Quote from: gappie on August 14, 2007, 11:20:10 am

you could make it yourself.

rightclick on a song. go to sent to>send to (external)>add/edit programms
click add
in name: google cover
in programm path: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
in parameter images.google.com//images?q=[artist] [album]&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

this does not take multiple artists in account. you could ofcourse make a calculated field especially for that, and use that for the cover search.

AoXoMoXoA · « **Reply #6 on:** August 15, 2007, 12:30:12 pm »

Quote from: maxxsid on August 15, 2007, 10:47:47 am

Hi gappie,
Thanks for the tip!
I tried this with Firefox - it doesn't work if Artist (or Album ) has more than one word - only passes the first word to the search trimming the rest. (works fine with IE, though).
For example: Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn passes only "Pink" to the search..

Any idea how to make it work with Firefox?

Thanks!
--max

images.google.com//images?q="[artist] [album]"&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

simply add quotes as I did in the string above, solved the problem here

maxxsid · « **Reply #7 on:** August 15, 2007, 12:47:37 pm »

Cool. Thanks!

Quote from: AoXoMoXoA on August 15, 2007, 12:30:12 pm

images.google.com//images?q="[artist] [album]"&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

simply add quotes as I did in the string above, solved the problem here

benn600 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 15, 2007, 01:54:36 pm »

That is a great suggestion! I personally felt like saying I do not support this suggestion because I feel that it is too specific. Lots of people already have cover art and you don't need it once you've got it. Powerful features like the custom function ability like you described are very handy.

jimbolla · « **Reply #9 on:** August 15, 2007, 06:21:53 pm »

I wouldn't have needed it either except I just built a new PC and when I moved my 300 GB of FLAC files to the new PC and fired up J River, I was surprised to find out that the FLAC plugin was not embedding the cover art into my files. I have about a 1000 files that the Cover Art | Get From Internet didn't find.

benn600 · « **Reply #10 on:** August 15, 2007, 07:00:23 pm »

I still wholeheartedly suggest the folder.jpg method. It saves space and just works so well with lots of different things. With it in each file, making a modification means you have to edit every single file! And multiply your cover art usage by around 13 times because it's in every song instead of just album.

mark_h · « **Reply #11 on:** August 16, 2007, 05:47:15 am »

Fantastic tip - what would be the icing on the cake is if the 'send to' target could be added to the navigation tool for quicker access from the top bar.

Anybody get it working for Yahoo images?

Mark

gappie · « **Reply #12 on:** August 16, 2007, 06:04:12 am »

for yahoo place
images.search.yahoo.com//search//images;_ylt=A0geu.zhLMRGCHcBV7FXNyoA?ei=UTF-8&p=[artist] [album]
under parameter. works for me.

the trick is to do a search on the page you want to search. change the searched word with the tags you want to use, take the http:// part away and add a / to every other /

when you raise the 'right click recent commands count' (under options>tree & view>advanced) the changes they are always imediatly under the right click button increase.

mark_h · « **Reply #13 on:** August 16, 2007, 07:27:31 am »

Thanks, Gappie. This is why I love MC and its supporters - they keep delivering up new functionality which I always wanted but didn't realise was already there

Mark

benn600 · « **Reply #14 on:** August 16, 2007, 07:49:07 am »

You know, I would think the escape slash could be added on MC's end as an incoming string. Possibly a feature request? Make things a little easier for users?

johnnyj · « **Reply #15 on:** August 16, 2007, 11:02:49 am »

And this one works fine with Amazon.com (saves a lot of clicking when searching for coverart)

www.amazon.com//s//&field-keywords="[Artist] [Album]"

Note: You have to escape the slashes (double them)

Don't use the "Send to" in album view since it will do a send to for each file

//Johnny

neovibe · « **Reply #16 on:** August 19, 2007, 02:01:05 pm »

Great tips but maybe a future version could have this search as a standard feature - as the user requested a cover for the file, a window would pop up with a search string suggested by MC (generally, artist + album), the user accepts or changes it and then a window with several covers shows up so that we can pick the one we want and it is automatically saved as folder.jpg in the file's folder.
This would streamline the whole process: no need to use the browser and then search for the file's folder manually to save the cover there.

Some of you will know this feature from Cover Art Display (it does it just with amazon.com)

cheers

neovibe · « **Reply #17 on:** August 19, 2007, 05:49:24 pm »

Quote from: neovibe on August 19, 2007, 02:01:05 pm

Great tips but maybe a future version could have this search as a standard feature - as the user requested a cover for the file, a window would pop up with a search string suggested by MC (generally, artist + album), the user accepts or changes it and then a window with several covers shows up so that we can pick the one we want and it is automatically saved as folder.jpg in the file's folder.
This would streamline the whole process: no need to use the browser and then search for the file's folder manually to save the cover there.

Some of you will know this feature from Cover Art Display (it does it just with amazon.com)

cheers

sorry, I'm new to the software and I only now found out that it dos all of this

great job.

steveklein · « **Reply #18 on:** September 25, 2007, 10:26:13 pm »

i got mine setup to use google, wikipedia, and amazon... all through firefox... but i have a question.

is there any way to make it so the browser window runs minimized so it doesnt pop up and mess up what im doing? that way i could maybe do 30 searches and then go through them pretty simply instead of doing 1 and having it pop up in my face

perhaps im asking for too much

mark_h · « **Reply #19 on:** September 26, 2007, 03:14:40 am »

Any way to make this method work with unicode characters, eg éíúáó etc... any entries I have with these in them break the process...

Mark

mlagase · « **Reply #20 on:** January 05, 2008, 07:45:34 am »

And here is one for slothradio as they seem to have a good amount of cover art there.

www.slothradio.com//covers//?adv=&artist=[artist]&album=[album]

Hope this helps.

Mike

JONCAT · « **Reply #21 on:** February 11, 2008, 10:26:34 am »

Wondering if anyone had any insights as to why only the first word of [album] is being sent to an album search of www.roots-archive.com.

It keeps getting sent as an Artist search; I have copied the url and changed it from the Albums search.......

?

thanks
DC

JONCAT · « **Reply #22 on:** February 11, 2008, 10:30:25 am »

forgot the quotes...

sorry

DC

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