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[lightningbit]

So OK I've been using MJ since V7 and now MC since the early beta's. And I don't think I would go away from it ever....
It is just the best value for money for playing/organizing/updating/...... someone's music/video/media collection

(ok, so far my humble compliments to the developers of the latest MC9)
This being said, my comments :

I've tried plugins in the past but they never challenged my to continue to use them (not the features I looked for, or too buggy, whatever...)

Now I recently started to use the latest Plugins of you (KingSparta)   the Lyrics and CoverArt finder

Great job, very nice plugins (because I still use them   )

Great plugins CoverArt and Lyrics finder.. but I would like to have a little more control over some actions.
Or maybe put some things on a wishlist

CoverArt finder :
I started doing small batches of files with it and about half of the coverart it finds is not correct (I started with a range of belgium flemish songs, so I expected that already) not big of a problem as such, because I'm willing to spend some time to get the coverart manually
But the plugin does the batch-search, and updates, without any intervention....
So a request :
->> so it would be nice to get someting of lets say a temporary match of coverart by the pluging, where I (the user) can select either
1/ to accept the match (and have the plugin save it to the library and cover art directory)
2/ change it to a manually downloaded file in some temp dir, and have the plugin update it like it does normally
3/ reject the match all together


And as kind of suggestion ... you have a very nice database of lyrics online... bigger then most Lyric robots.... it would be nice to have it for coverart also...I don't know if it is feasable of course... (depends on the means you have... for 250000 songs.. you would need about 13GB of space for cover art)


Lyrics finder :
Ok so you have one of the biggest lyrics databases online, and growing : GREAT
here I've kind of a similar request as above :
- when the lyrics are found, just kind of a confirmation if the pluging may commit the lyrics to the MC library
- also an option to e.g. force searching/overwriting lyrcis for a song that already has lyrics would be nice

And something I'm missing at this moment is kind of a listing option or tool, to print or export to file a list of lyrics of a selected set of songs
I don't know wether this fits in the thinking direction of your plugin or not.


Okay that's it for now  


So...... any comments, remarks.... from anyone??


Olivier.

[KingSparta]

I started doing small batches of files with it and about half of the coverart it finds is not correct

turn off pass 2 & 3

[Valissystem]

King: Love your plugins in general, but seeing that there are requests for change - the capatalisation of Lyrics downloaded via your Lyric Finder plugin is sometimes not how I like it. I presume that this depends on how people have them entered into their own DBs before uploading them. Is it possible that you could add configuration options to allow for perhaps:
- Capatilised each word
- Capatilised beginning of each line only
- As it comes
- No capitalisation at all

Cheers,

[KingSparta]

maybe

[bytestar]

Where can i download both Plugins ?

[221bBS]

This is a very old plugin. If you're using MC15 this will not work with it.

There is a built in cover art finder in MC15. Right click on the files you want cover art for and select Cover Art > Get from Internet...

You can also have MC15 search the web for cover arts using the custom links. I don't know to much about creating search links but this is my current set up for cover art. The below helps me find high quality cover art.

Code: [Select]

<Link version="1.1">
<Item Name="Name">Cover Art</Item>
<Item Name="Filter">[Media Type]=[Audio]</Item>
<Item Name="Action">1</Item>
<Item Name="Base URL">http://images.google.com</Item>
<Item Name="Search URL">http:////images.google.com//images?q=Hexify(If(IsEqual([Album Artist],Various Artists,0),,[Album Artist] )[Album: Base]If(IsEqual([Folder: B],Soundtrack,0),/ Soundtrack,))&amp;hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;tbs=isch:1,isz:l&amp;sa=N&amp;start=0&amp;ndsp=20</Item>
</Link>
But the above will not work for you. here is a modified version.

Code: [Select]

<Link version="1.1">
<Item Name="Name">Cover Art</Item>
<Item Name="Filter">[Media Type]=[Audio]</Item>
<Item Name="Action">1</Item>
<Item Name="Base URL">http://images.google.com</Item>
<Item Name="Search URL">http:////images.google.com//images?q=Hexify([Album Artist (auto)] [Album])&amp;hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;tbs=isch:1,isz:l&amp;sa=N&amp;start=0&amp;ndsp=20</Item>
</Link>
and here is one that will search for any size artwork.

Code: [Select]

<Link version="1.1">
<Item Name="Name">Cover Art</Item>
<Item Name="Filter">[Media Type]=[Audio]</Item>
<Item Name="Action">1</Item>
<Item Name="Base URL">http://images.google.com</Item>
<Item Name="Search URL">http:////images.google.com//images?q=Hexify([Album Artist (auto)] [Album])</Item>
</Link>
As for the lyric finder, there are no plugins for this that I know of. But here is a great site to find lyrics

http://lyrics.wikia.com

I suggest you use firefox with greasemonkey plugin and the LyricWiki Anti-Disabler for greasemonkey so you can copy and paste the lyrics. I would love for someone to create a plugin for this site.

[dcwebman]

Regarding lyrics, this is still the best to edit your lyrics and manually find them: http://www.dooftoo.com/lyricseditor.html
It should be part of MC.