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Request: Option to make or find all artist pictures the same size!
HPBEME:
--- Quote from: lepa on June 04, 2023, 01:08:33 pm ---Changing replace to hexify will get you correct results for example if there is "&" in the band's name
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Sure enough… When I updated it to your code, it correctly returns results with "&" (without your modification, the search truncates the artist name after the &). Thank you lepa! Someday I'm going to sit down and figure out how to make my own links using the hexify command.
dtc:
Pasting the hexified code worked great. I also did a Composer art link and an Album art link with [Album Artist] added to the Album link.
It would be nice if this could become a standard MC link.
Thanks.
Darkness:
--- Quote from: HPBEME on June 04, 2023, 12:40:10 am ---I don't know if it is easy, and it has been requested before. Unfortunately, you get what you get for the artist pix, which is a random mish-mash of aspect ratios. Hopefully a critical mass of interest can be achieved and get this moved up the priority list. :o
I personally used a different media player (MusicBee) to initially retrieve artist pix. With no other effort than installing the program, it automatically finds/applies (mostly) 1000x1000 square pix for the majority of artists (images for obscure artists typically ~300x300). It found artist pix for ~90% of my library, and well over half of those were 1000x1000. You will have to copy the folder where MusicBee stores them to where MC does, but as soon as you paste them, blammo, you have updated artist pix.
Even though most pix were large/hi-rez, I still ended up manually replacing 30%+ of those with images I liked better (I am picky). FYI... use duckduckgo for image searches. I won't try and explain how/why it blows away Google - just try it out and you will see for yourself.
And finally, do you like that fat white frame around the pix and large thumbnail spacing? Maybe that is the default - I don't recall. Either way, if you dislike that layout, both can be modified.
- MC has a handy search box at the bottom of the Options dialog - search for "frame" and select "all off".
- Thumbnail spacing is accessed via the tab's dropdown menu (see attached pic)
- In the attached pic, my thumbnail spacing is set to "none", but there is still a 2 pixel "pad" all around the image (Matt - any chance you can reduce that to 1 pixel?)
NOTE: you have to precisely tweak the thumbnail size via the slider (upper right just below the Player Bar) to make the gaps as tight as possible
Anyway, hope the all the above info is useful to you.
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Using fanart.tv can help you without the use of another app all the artist covers are at 1000x1000! i download mine now looks awesome!
https://fanart.tv/
HPBEME:
--- Quote from: Darkness on June 07, 2023, 06:01:47 am ---Using fanart.tv can help you without the use of another app all the artist covers are at 1000x1000! i download mine now looks awesome!
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I have used fanart as well, but in my experience it has the artist image I'm looking for only about 1/3 of the time. Regardless, it is another good resource for finding artist images.
As for "without the use of another app", perhaps you missed the point. Whether using fanart, or duckduckgo, or Google images, you have to manually search for an artist image one at a time. Using the program I suggested above, it finds every artist in your music library automatically upon initial import into the program. Depending on the size of your library (I have about 1300 artists myself) that took all of 15 minutes, which is the equivalent of a couple hundred hours of my manual labor to accomplish the same.
Granted, as time goes by I replace images for various artists with ones I like better, but the initial automated collection of square/high-res images as the starting point is spectacularly helpful.
Darkness:
--- Quote from: HPBEME on June 07, 2023, 07:03:32 am ---I have used fanart as well, but in my experience it has the artist image I'm looking for only about 1/3 of the time. Regardless, it is another good resource for finding artist images.
As for "without the use of another app", perhaps you missed the point. Whether using fanart, or duckduckgo, or Google images, you have to manually search for an artist image one at a time. Using the program I suggested above, it finds every artist in your music library automatically upon initial import into the program. Depending on the size of your library (I have about 1300 artists myself) that took all of 15 minutes, which is the equivalent of a couple hundred hours of my manual labor to accomplish the same.
Granted, as time goes by I replace images for various artists with ones I like better, but the initial automated collection of square/high-res images as the starting point is spectacularly helpful.
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indeed it's not every artist photo in there but still has many plus those you can't find simply find a proper resolution and crop or resize the photo and done hehe
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