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Title: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: sub-24 on October 30, 2002, 09:09:24 am
I am trying to download ablum covers for my collection and cant seem to find anything.

Ive tried about 100 albums today and didnt get 1 match.

Where does MJ get them from and can i select this etc.

Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: KingSparta on October 30, 2002, 09:20:48 am
I just tried it.

It worked
Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: Neil on October 30, 2002, 09:25:21 am
Hi,

Try this site, it is great for album art...and their listings are HUGE and ACCURATE :o

http://www.cdcovers.cc/covers.php

I believe that MJ doesn't use CDDB for lookup, even though it appears to be an option in Settings.
Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: sub-24 on October 30, 2002, 09:29:30 am
KS.

I just tried it and it Didn't.

pretty unhelpful really isnt it.

Does MJ use CDDB for album art.

A third party site is okay but i dont want to have to download them all manually
Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: boliver on October 30, 2002, 09:35:56 am
My album art used to work, but now I just get a picture of a broken link where the picture of the album should go.  The cover art files were intact but were not being read by MJ.  I have upgraded the versions of the product over time and I probably re-searched for album art at some point.

I have tried uninstalling Media Jukebox, removing the original cover art files and then reinstalling to get a "clean" internet search to no avail - the information about the now phantom cover art files keeps coming back up - where is this info stored? (!)  And I keep getting the broken links.

Does someone have an older version of Media Jukebox that supports CDDB?  Perhaps that is the problem.

????
Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: avmad on October 30, 2002, 09:52:21 am
I have not been able to do this since buying MJ 8.  I just get a blank window saying 'retreiving cover art' or something, and it just sits there.  I always have to cancel out of it.

Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: babyhuey on November 08, 2002, 12:57:29 pm
I made a similar post a very short while ago.  Bottom line is that it seems to work for some, a little for some, and none for others.  Unfortunately I am one of the later.

As of yet I haven't seen any explanation as to why this is happening nor have there been any solutions offered.  Hopefully MJ 9 will solve this (though I love the "mine works" posts as if this helps me ;D).

I've resorted to using the artist info link to AMG and saving the album covers. Obviously not nearly as convenient as clicking one bottom; but not too big a deal.

Good luck.
Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: JimH on November 08, 2002, 01:07:42 pm
Stay tuned.  This will be fixed shortly in MJ.
Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: ballen on November 09, 2002, 02:01:01 am
My version of MJ (8.0.388) also is not able to retrieve album "cover art" automatically during the "ripping" process.  Hopefully as "JimH" states this will be fixed soon.

I followed "babyhuey's" suggestion on using the AMG "artist info link" to save the album cover.  Pardon my ignorance, but now what am I supposed to do with it?
Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: graham131 on November 12, 2002, 04:41:33 am
on the 8th November Jim H said:

Stay tuned.  This will be fixed shortly in MJ

Any news Jim. ;D

This appears to have only stopped working in the last couple of builds.

I have loads of new ones i am waiting to get.

Please can you let us know?  ;)

Regards

Graham
Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: JimH on November 12, 2002, 05:39:31 am
It is fixed in the latest build of MJ 9.  A new build of 8 with the fix will be released before the end of this week.
Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: zevele10 on November 12, 2002, 06:52:57 am
Because you pay such small money for MJ,all your music is under 'promo-or test pressing'

In this case just a white sleeve.
An $$$$$$ for life upgrade send to me may make things better next week
Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: graham131 on November 17, 2002, 12:38:19 am
Bump

Jim is Sunday the end of the week? or the beginning of the next one?

Your hopefully!

Graham
Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: paulbailie on November 18, 2002, 12:30:55 am
? ....or maybe the end of next week?
Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: KingSparta on November 18, 2002, 02:56:31 am
I don't think they quite made it last friday, MJ9 weekend build did not make it also.

Maybe today.
Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: graham131 on November 21, 2002, 09:02:06 am
Bump
Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: avmad on November 21, 2002, 09:40:11 am
? Bump  ?

What might that mean?
Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: graham131 on November 22, 2002, 12:15:28 am
Quote
? Bump  ?

What might that mean?


Just to "bump" it back to the top of the queue to remind people its still there and has an action on it.

Graham
Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: stevowilson on November 22, 2002, 04:36:15 am
Mike,

I use a mega search engine (Copernic) and tried to find album covers like I'm assuming you're looking for.  Try: mikesrecords.com, or search a specific artist.  Good Luck!
Title: Re: Album Art - cant find anything
Post by: Mysticeti on November 22, 2002, 05:42:48 pm
I gave a demo of MJ8 to a friend this week.  Unfortunately one of the first things I showed him was how easy it was to get cover art...  NOT.  After several unsuccessful attempts on various albums I had major egg on my face.   :(