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[REQ] Please make automatic cover art download optional...

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JimH:

--- Quote from: lepa on July 14, 2016, 05:36:55 am ---I just spent couple of hours removing/replacing wrong cover art. So please, could you make this an option. Now all the wrong cover art will just reappear for separate songs which have no album data

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It shouldn't affect any audio for which you already have cover art.  It only gets art when there is none available locally.

audioriver:
+1 for optional. Haven't used it yet but I suspect it's impossible for an automatic operation to always get correct art files. If a user's library has missing art, the user knows it and will take care of it at some later point. If an automatic operation adds unwanted or wrong art, things will soon get out of control.

I see how this feature can be useful for small libraries or new users but for large, existing libraries and users who like to customize their library it's likely to cause unnecessary problems.

mwillems:

--- Quote from: JimH on July 14, 2016, 06:29:34 am ---Please explain why it is a problem for you.

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I haven't been able to test the feature yet, but I can offer some places where it might be unwelcome for me.

I have a significant number of albums that were recorded by local bands, they never broke out and got famous, but they put out a few CDs.  There is no "correct" cover art available for many of those albums online, and I've been too lazy to scan the CD sleeves, so I've left the art blank on the albums.  In the past when I tried to look up cover art for those albums,  the internet does find cover art, but it finds the wrong cover art!  Either another band had a similarly named album, or someone has posted the cover art for the wrong album by that artist under the wrong album name.  So a search to, say, google or freedb, will return cover art, but it's wrong.  In those cases I'd rather have no cover art than wrong cover art, so I'd also like a way to deal with that case.  

There are a few different solutions:

1) One way to deal with it would be an option to disable like folks are asking for above;
2) Another, maybe more useful, way to address it would be to prompt users and allow them to accept or reject the art (maybe with a check box "don't ask me again for these files")
3) A workaround for folks in the meanwhile is to make "dummy" empty cover art and put it in your empty files.  That would stop the lookup.  With a smartlist that would take ten minutes.

Hendrik:
We have options for all sorts of automatic art retrieval, I don't see why this one should not also have one, or get tied into one of the existing ones. I'm sure Matt will get on this. :)
I can fully understand when people only want to see their own carefully curated artwork instead of random art from the internet, even if that means having a blank for some titles.

lepa:

--- Quote from: JimH on July 14, 2016, 06:57:07 am ---It shouldn't affect any audio for which you already have cover art.  It only gets art when there is none available locally.

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I don't want any ALBUM art for single songs which don't have album field filled, most of the times MC just imports some "random" art because it doesn't have album data as a search criteria.


Also especially for compilations wrong art seems to be happen quite often. Found this out when build a new machine and paths were changed at first and MC was too quick to start looking the art from web until I realised that the art folder path was different. Then I think that I make a mistake to change the path from MC which caused MC to copy all those wrong cover arts to my old art folder replacing all the correct art...
I guess I should have copied the my real art folder first to the MC's default cover art folder in order to replace all bad pictures. Fortunately I had almost current backup of the album art folder.

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