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KingSparta:

--- Quote from: JimH on August 16, 2006, 07:18:12 pm ---We're thinking about adding cover art to our YADB database.  If we did, how would you feel about uploading your cover art to populate it?  Do you have good quality images?

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i have found many users may have the wrong cover art attached to there music, it may be the correct artist but the wrong album.

So there should be a way to correct it or delete it.

park:
Sounds groovy to me too.

For maximum chances of finding some art (often, even a tiny image is better than nothing at all), I would allow all art to be uploaded, and have the app intelligently choose the biggest one for you when batch downloading.

Keeping the "loose search" feature would be good too.

I know that when I've shown MC to people, they've been impressed by the way you can navigate by art, but then put off when they found out how difficult it was to aquire that art themselves. This one step process would be a killer feature for most people I think.
I've spent a long time, using MC, Sparta's plugin, and Google images to get all my art. Just over 500 albums have art at or above 500x500px. Another 500 or so at about 300x300px. And another 400 at smaller than 300x300px.

Happy to upload it of course.

Alex B:
I could provide about 2000 front covers. In general the sizes vary from 300x300 to 800x800. I have named the files as "Album Artist (auto) - Album".

Are you thinking about adding an internal mechanism for uploading the files? Otherwise users may have difficulties in participating, especially if they use the folder.jpg naming system.

You could add a separate cover art database to MC's library (like the CD or deleted files database is now). It would initially gather the needed information from the audio files' library fields and after that it would be synchronized with the media files. Hopefully this would also make possible to add the much requested "move" cover art option and functions for mass extracting or embedding cover art from/into file tags and resizing for portable players.

JimH:

--- Quote from: Alex B on August 17, 2006, 06:59:37 am ---
Are you thinking about adding an internal mechanism for uploading the files?
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Yes, we'd do something to automate it.

dcwebman:
I absolutely would be glad to upload my cover art. I always try to get the largest and clearest there is.

But while you're at it, how about adding Lyrics to the YADB database too since King's unsure if he's going to update his Lyrics Finder plug-in for MC 12?  A lot of people have contributed to his lyrics database so it would be nice to have some place to continue the same with MC 12.

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