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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 31 for Windows => Topic started by: kpstanton on May 15, 2023, 12:51:51 pm

Title: Composer Images from Google
Post by: kpstanton on May 15, 2023, 12:51:51 pm

I am unable to get the "get composer images from Google" functionality to work.  "Right clicking" on this menu item causes a quick pop-up window of some sort to quickly flash across the screen, but no artwork is downloaded to my "cover art\composers" and no artwork appears on screen.  If I manually download composers and place them in the "cover art\composers" folder they appear immediately.  Is there some setting I need to set or am I misunderstanding how this should work?  My composers are all formatted as "last name, first name", but even if I use just the composer last name, I have the issue.  This is happening on both 29.0.87 (64-bit) and 31.0.8 (64-bit) running under windows 10. My limited testing has ruled out a firewall or Antivirus issue.  The "get artist images from last.fm" works as advertised.  Any ideas??

Title: Re: Composer Images from Google
Post by: mvandyke on May 15, 2023, 03:55:10 pm

I also brought this up earlier (3 months ago) and so far no response.

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=135168.0


Let's work to keep pushing on this to get it corrected.

Matt

Title: Re: Composer Images from Google
Post by: mvandyke on May 21, 2023, 11:37:47 am

Can someone please tell us if the "Get Composer Images" works for them or is it broken?

Title: Re: Composer Images from Google
Post by: mvandyke on June 01, 2023, 07:49:28 am

Can someone respond from JRiver if this is a known problem.  It's a part of the functionality of JRiver and I don't believe that it's been working for months.

Thanks
Matt

Title: Re: Composer Images from Google
Post by: Matt on June 01, 2023, 08:47:42 am

It's a known problem.  Google switched to a format we're not able to parse any longer.  We're looking for alternatives.

Title: Re: Composer Images from Google
Post by: mvandyke on June 01, 2023, 09:18:06 am

Thanks Matt for the update!

Title: Re: Composer Images from Google
Post by: Manfred on June 01, 2023, 09:28:40 am

For classical music the owner of the following website has a very good but not complete catalog of composers & images:
https://absolutelybaching.com/a-list-of-composers/ (https://absolutelybaching.com/a-list-of-composers/)
May be the strategy of maintaining an own catalog with unique formatted images of composers by the MC team would be an idea?

Title: Re: Composer Images from Google
Post by: JimH on June 01, 2023, 10:50:13 am

If other applications play through JRiver, you're using the WDM driver.  Please see the wiki topic.

Title: Re: Composer Images from Google
Post by: kpstanton on June 04, 2023, 01:51:58 pm

Thanks Matt!  Good to know that it is a known issue.

Title: Re: Composer Images from Google
Post by: dtc on June 04, 2023, 02:45:11 pm

See here. It does not copy the file, but it does show the images and lets you download them. It can be done based on any field.  Just change [Artist] to [Composer] in the code.

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,136183.0.html