INTERACT FORUM
More => Old Versions => Media Center 13 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: terrya64 on June 06, 2009, 01:05:20 pm
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I would like to see the ability to edit the search term when correct cover art can not be found. Have the abilty to seach with no album name or change to a different one.
I have a lot of single songs and would make it easier to find a nice cover.
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I agree. Have asked for this before and definitely would improve the tagging.
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Even better would be a suggestive search, where the YADB server would suggest text terms
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I posted this over a year ago when the lookup tool was introduced:
I'd like to suggest the following. Display first a dialog window like this (before starting the internet connection):
[radio button] Automatic lookup
Media Center will try to find cover art for all selected files automatically. No user interaction is needed.
This mode is good for initial lookups when several hundred or more cover art images are looked up.
[radio button] Interactive lookup
Media Center will show thumbnail images and let you choose if more than one cover art image is available. This mode will allow to preserve and automatically submit existing cover art if it is found better than the available on-line images. This is a batch mode. Cover art is handled in batches of 20 images. After each saved batch Media Center will automatically query for the next batch if more than 20 albums are selected for the lookup.
[radio button] Custom lookup for single cover art images
This is a manual mode. You can type any Artist and Album names and the tool will use these in the search instead of the library tags. A found and saved cover art file will still be saved using your library information, not the custom search string. When one of the displayed images is selected and saved your library information for this image is added to the on-line database. This option is for trying different tags without the need to actually retag your audio files.
Artist: [ type the artist name here ]
Album: [ type the album name here ]
[continue] [cancel]
The automatic option would work like the old system. It would download the cover art images one by one without displaying any additional windows. It would use the "best image" mode.
The interactive lookup would be what we have now.
The custom lookup would display the results of the first query in a window like this:
(http://www.pix01.com/gallery/4AD73041-94E6-4810-80BE-EDB7F3274485/coverartlookup/442342160_orig0.jpg)
If a query didn't find anything useful, the user would always be able to try different tags until one image is selected or the lookup is cancelled.
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I would LOVE to see the above recommendation from Alex implemented. as it is now, I don't even bother with the cover art lookup as it tends to give so many false results and no way to catch them, and I'm still trying to remove wrong covers in my library.
the above implementation would solve pretty much every situation I can forsee, and I can't see any downsides to using this, especially as I imagine the old implementation is still backed up/saved somewhere so it *shouldn't* be a big project to do this.
Excellent feedback Alex, once again :)
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Yes, to Alex B. This is exactly what I would like to see. As it is now, I use Ginipic and Muvundercover to find most of my cover art.
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I agree with Alex. That should be part of the polishing that hopefully will come in MC14.
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I'd like to see that. Perhaps I could quit using AlbumArtDownloader.
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Yes, that would hit the spot.
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Glad so many Citizens of the Universe want the same thing. Now if it would be added, that would be great.
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I also love the suggestion from Alex.
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i'll join that queue ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Glad to see so much support for this request, lets keep our fingers crossed.