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Cover Art Finder
geoelectric:
KidSquid: look in the Media Center\Data folder (not Data\Cover Art). That's where it puts mine.
KingSparta: The first problem is that the Registered value contains "Test", not "Registered". Leave in some debugging code?
The second problem is that when your finder finds art, most of the time it isn't putting it in the cover art folder I have set under File Naming & Location | Track Images Location. Inexplicably, -sometimes- it does, but it's rare. There's also this weird thing where it'll download the images as a GIF on one session and a JPG on another (identical search config). I don't even know what to make of that. When you put the art in the "Data" directory, you embed a path into the file that's just the filename (Artist - Album.jpg) with no pathing information. MC won't find the file with that, even if it's in the Data directory--I'm sure that's what KidSquid's seeing.
For your own duplication, I'm feeding the Now Playing list with a modified version of the "Needs Images" smartlist that only gives back track 1 of each album needing images (your plugin doesn't seem to handle the case of multiple songs from one album correctly, and tries to search for the image multiple times).
A third issue that I haven't previously mentioned is that if your cover art plugin (possibly the others--I only use the cover art one) is switched away from while it's working, it crashes Media Center! First you get an error about your ocx getting disconnected. Then you get an AV in Media Core. Unfortunately, I can't always tell when your plugin is working, so I generally can't use it unless I'm going to close Media Center right afterwards. Is there any possible way you can handle switching away from the plugin page better?
Incidentally, I only get setup for 3 sites with 0.0.9. Did you say you expanded it to 4?
KingSparta:
--- Quote ---KingSparta: The first problem is that the Registered value contains "Test", not "Registered". Leave in some debugging code?
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Yes And No.
Some systems wil not allow the save of info to the registry, not sure why.
so what i did s first write to the registry "Test" then read it. if test is there then we can write to the registry.
not sure why yours would stills say "Test" i will look at that. something may have happened when you first ran the program.
--- Quote ---The second problem is that when your finder finds art, most of the time it isn't putting it in the cover art folder I have set under File Naming & Location | Track Images Location. Inexplicably, -sometimes- it does, but it's rare.
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what is the path?
make sure it has a slash
mine saves to the mc9 default cover art folder using
C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\Data\Cover Art\
there was a bug in MC9 where if you played with the path it would not add the "\" and everything would go into the \Data\ folder and not the \Data\Cover Art\ Folder.
--- Quote ---There's also this weird thing where it'll download the images as a GIF on one session and a JPG on another (identical search config). I don't even know what to make of that.
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well sometimes the cover art is found made as a GIF, Most is JPG but not all. normaly the smaller ones are gif.
on some sources there is 3 sizes, gif, med jpg, large jpg it will try to find them all.
--- Quote ---A third issue that I haven't previously mentioned is that if your cover art plugin (possibly the others--I only use the cover art one) is switched away from while it's working, it crashes Media Center!
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I have not seen that error, And It May Or Maynot be Mine. MC9 should not crash if you move out of a active plug-in it should trap it and move on.
--- Quote ---Incidentally, I only get setup for 3 sites with 0.0.9. Did you say you expanded it to 4?
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yes, you can't see the other, but it is a sister of the orginal but not .com but .de and it will have some of the "Non-Us" Art
KingSparta:
--- Quote ---"Registered" was not in the registry....i addded and restarted MC....still nothing...
Now I notice that the tag on the file has been changed to point to the cover art....(now get a red x in the now playing screen)
but nothing is downloaded.....
still getting the "waiting" in the status window
squid
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could you take a picture of your registry for this program and send it to me. mfarmer1@nc.rr.com
looks like i need to look into this.
Kid_Squid:
Ok....a couple of things I have discovered...
This is the setting in MC for cover art:
C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\Data\Cover Art\
As mentioned above...I looked into the Data directory, (one level above the Cover Art Directory) and guess what I found??? The cover art that I had attempted to download.
Now I'm gonna take a screen cap of the registry and send it on...
Squid
KingSparta:
this is how i am finding the coverart folder.
MJImageFileLocation = ReadKey("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JRiver\Media Jukebox\Properties\ImageFileLocation")
If LenB(MJImageFileLocation) = 0 Then
MJImageFileLocation = ReadKey("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\JRiver\Media Jukebox\InstallDirectory")
MJImageFileLocation = MJImageFileLocation & "Data\Cover Art\"
Else
MyPos1 = Len(MJImageFileLocation)
If Mid$(MJImageFileLocation, MyPos1, 1) <> "\" Then
MJImageFileLocation = MJImageFileLocation & "\"
End If
End If
basicly an Idea From Matt incase MC9 Has Not Saved The Cover Art Folder Path To The Registry. I Guess There May Be Problems With This If Users Use Something Else As A Folder Name or MC9 is not located in the default folder.
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