Could someone please tell me why the cover art downloader is the way it is?
Basically I have run a test on a small amount of the compilations I own to see what success rate I would get when getting MC11 to find cover art. These are the Albums:-
Acoustic - (Disc One)
As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt 2
Cream Classics - (Disc One)
Cream Classics - (Disc Three)
Cream Classics - (Disc Two)
Daredevil: The Album
Essential Sounds
Funky Divas - (Disc One)
Funky Divas - (Disc Two)
Kiss Smooth Grooves Summer 99 - (Disc One)
Kiss Smooth Grooves Summer 99 - (Disc Two)
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Motown Dance Party - (Disc One)
Motown Dance Party - (Disc Two)
Now 1987 - (Disc One)
Now 1987 - (Disc Two)
Now Dance - The Best of '93 - (Disc One)
Now Dance - The Best of '93 - (Disc Two)
The Full Monty Soundtrack
The Lost Boys
The Ultimate Chill Out Collection
The Very Best Euphoric Old Skool Breakdown - (Disc One)
The Very Best Euphoric Old Skool Breakdown - (Disc Two)
Titan A.E. - Music From The Motion Picture
OK....
This is all I found using MC11:
http://www.tabram.net/covers1.jpgThis is all I found using Kings plug-in:
http://www.tabram.net/covers2.jpgSideNote: I don't want the same cover for every track!
I know what the problem is. All cover art programs that I have tried search for the Album Name and the Artist. Unfortunately the Artist in these Albums is different for each track! IF you search for the Album Name and VARIOUS ARTIST on Amazon and Walmart you WILL find them.
The only other program I have found that works perfectly like this is XLobby. It does a scan of your music database and IF it finds more than one Artist per Album Name, it uses Various Artist when searching for cover art. Unfortunatly XLobby is a HTPC front end that I do not want to use and also doesn't allow for a batch search.
MC11 is IDEAL to fix this problem as it already knows when an album has multiple artists so it needs to simply search on AlbumArtist(Auto) and Album Name. Obviously I would recommend Various Artists instead of Multiple Artists as this is the defacto standard. Why don't you use Various Artists? (Assorted in the filesystem!?!)
I would also recommend dynamically removing Disc 1, Disc One etc when searching as I think this hinders compilations.
And....please...if this did get fixed can I have my images saved in folder.jpg. I use other programs (Including Windows Explorer,) and they will only give me an image if they find a folder.jpg.
This is really hindering my 'easy' management of my audio which is the main reason I use MC11. I would just like to know why this simple fix has never been changed. Do you not agree?
Regards
Vic