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[Jean-Max]

Hello,

=> What is The Internet data base actually used by MC to find songs covers ?

=> When getting cover art from the internet, can we choose (or in next MC release), le web site where MC goes searching ?

Why ?
Because, it's quite OK for English/US songs but most of French songs are unknown on the Internet base used by MC..


Thanks !!

[JimH]

It isn't possible.  Sorry.

YADB has some cover art.

images.google.com is a good place to look.  Use copy and paste from there.

[ThoBar]

also see posts by glynor et. al. re using send to external as a simple way of querying google/amazon etc for cover art.

[Jean-Max]

It isn't possible.  Sorry.

YADB has some cover art.

Can I undestrand that YADB is your data base for Cover arts ?

Can we add covers to YADB ?
http://www.jrmediacenter.com/help/yadb1.htm

Thanks

[ThoBar]

Sure can... Right click, Cover art, Submit to Internet...

[steveklein]

also see posts by glynor et. al. re using send to external as a simple way of querying google/amazon etc for cover art.

i cant seem to find this post. can you link me to it directly?

[gappie]

here is one: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=41981.0

[Messiahs]

a good place for covers:
http://www.thejosher.net/iTunes/

[steveklein]

a good place for covers:
http://www.thejosher.net/iTunes/

that is good? i just went to it and it couldn't even find me simple albums such as yellow submarine by the beatles. what am i doing wrong?

[Messiahs]

that is good? i just went to it and it couldn't even find me simple albums such as yellow submarine by the beatles. what am i doing wrong?

iTunes don't like Beatles....
read more:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/22/technology/apple_beatles_ipod.fortune/index.htm

try something like:
http://www.thejosher.net/iTunes/index.php?artist=robbie+williams&album=rudebox

perhaps you have to download the tif (click 'That link give a 404? Grab the tif instead..')

[benn600]

Its search functionality is horrible.  You have to put album and artist I find.  Keep trying things.  It's got tons of cover art but is difficult to find sometimes.

[jimn]

We are currently working on having MC also check for cover art from another source. That might improve things.

JimN

[steveklein]

iTunes don't like Beatles....
read more:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/22/technology/apple_beatles_ipod.fortune/index.htm

try something like:
http://www.thejosher.net/iTunes/index.php?artist=robbie+williams&album=rudebox

perhaps you have to download the tif (click 'That link give a 404? Grab the tif instead..')

isnt the tif like 5 megabytes? i can't be embedding those in files. wouldn't it effectively use 50 megs of disk space for a 10 track album? ew.

(and yes, i do need them embedded into the .mp3s)

[Messiahs]

isnt the tif like 5 megabytes? i can't be embedding those in files. wouldn't it effectively use 50 megs of disk space for a 10 track album? ew.

that's right. You have to convert it to jpg (but most times a jpg is available).
I wrote a small graber (it's to buggy to share) to catch the covers.... it reads the id3-tag and requests/saves the cover as folder.jpg... it founds about 80% of my albums. that's more than i expected.

[Jean-Max]

=> When getting cover art from the internet, can we choose (or in next MC release), the web site where MC goes searching ?

It isn't possible.  Sorry.

We are currently working on having MC also check for cover art from another source. That might improve things.

[dcwebman]

We are currently working on having MC also check for cover art from another source. That might improve things.
JimN

Jim, are we ever going to get the chance to choose from multiple cover art choices, and in turn be able to store multiple versions of the same album's cover art in YADB?