Topic: A New Cover Art Finder For Media Center 11 Only! (Read 18585 times)

KingSparta · « **on:** November 25, 2004, 09:56:12 am »

This Program Will Be For Media Center 11 Only, it is free!

I could make it for other versions of media center but i would rather people to upgrade, and support J River And all the work they do to bring us users such a wonderfull program to play our media on.

last night I ran it thru 24,000+ mp3's with no problems

AnyOne Have Any More ideas Ideas?

A Few Pictures of the beta project, also following the pictures is the help file

A Bit Of Help
Mode 1

Put All Your Files Into "Playing Now"

Goto The Plug-In And Make Your Settings

Click The Batch Button

You Can Select "Stop Batch" If You Wish To Stop The Batch

Mode 2

Put All Your Files Into "Playing Now"

Goto The Plug-In And Make Your Settings

Then Play The Music As You Normally Would In Media Center If You Have Missing Art Once The Music Plays The Plug-In Will Connect To The SpartaSoft Server And Attempt To Get It For You. The Plug-In Will Attempt To Upload Art To The Server As Well If The Server Does Not Have This Cover Art.

[X] Get Cover Art If Missing

If Art Is Missing When MC Goes To Play A Song The Plug-In Will Download It From The SpartaSoft Server If It Is Available, If you Have Art And That Art Is Not On The Server It Will Upload It To The SpartaSoft Server.

[X] Make Fields File Name Friendly

This Option Will Allow The Program To Change The Artist Name, Song Name And Album Name FileName Friendly By Removing Chars Like "*", "\", "?" Etc.. From The Fields. The Plug-in Will Always Save The Art With A FileName Friendly Format No Mater If This Option Is On Or Off.

[X] Loose Search

The Program Will Look At The Server For Artist Name And Album

If Cover Art Is Not Found The Plug-In Will Look Under The Artist Name And Song Name Since This Art Can Come From Any Album From That Artist It Would Be A Bit Loose.

Note: Since All Album Art Is Auto Submitted By Users Any Art Submitted By Users Might Be Loose Anyway.

[X] Looser Search

This Option Will Allow The Program Will Look At The Server For Artist Name Only If No Art Was Found Prior To This Try Using Artist - AlbumName And ArtistName - SongName

Note: Since All Album Art Is Auto Submitted By Users Any Art Submitted By Users Might Be Loose Anyway.

[X] Save Art In Album Folder "folder.jpg"

All Art Must Be Saved In Album Folders Like

C:\MyMusic\ArtistName\AlbumName\

You Can Not Have Music In Folders Like

C:\MyMusic\

If You Did You Would Just Keep Over Writing The "Folder.Jpg" Image

Normally This Option Should Be Set To Off Unless All Your Music Is In Album Folders.

Auto Select Image
[X] Largest [X] Smallest

Some Times Users May Want Small Images For Files You Take on The Go, Some Times Users Like Large Images With More Detail. I Have Made it So You Can Somewhat Make That Choice By Selecting This Option And You Should Get Images That Meet Your Needs.

Download Art From List
If You Want Something Other Than Largest And Smallest You Can Double Click On The Art In The List And The Cover Art Will Download And Be Saved To the File. This May Take A Few Mins To Download And Then Saved To Media Centers Database And Media File.

Delete Cover Art
You Can Select Cover Art In The List Then Click On The Delete Button. You Will Be Asked "Do You Really Want To Delete This File?" Yes, Will Delete The File Then Update The File List.

The Connect Tab
I Have Added A Way For Users With A Need To Enter A Proxy Address, This Normally Should Be Empty And Off For Most Users.

KingSparta · « **Reply #1 on:** November 27, 2004, 07:30:57 am »

If Anyone Was Having The Plug-in Lock Up I think I fixed That Problem Last Night About 11:30 And A New Build Is Ready.

If Anyone Wants To Beta Test This Project Send Me A Message, And Tell Me:

1. How Many Media Files You Have
2. Tell Me How Many Of Them Already Have Cover Art
3. If You Use It Explain In Detail Any Problems You May Have Seen.

Note: There Is Not A Whole Lot Of Cover Art Right Now So I Am Needing Anyone With A Large Collection To Please Submit There Cover Art By Installing The Plug-In And Putting All There Files In Playing Now And Pressing The Batch Button.

LonWar · « **Reply #2 on:** November 27, 2004, 08:22:43 am »

I'm loading the new file now.

1. How Many Media Files You Have About 5K
2. Tell Me How Many Of Them Already Have Cover Art All

KingSparta · « **Reply #3 on:** November 27, 2004, 11:01:22 am »

Quote from: imjustagamer on November 27, 2004, 08:22:43 am

I'm loading the new file now.

1. How Many Media Files You Have About 5K
2. Tell Me How Many Of Them Already Have Cover Art All

your on the list

Michel Lefebvre · « **Reply #4 on:** November 27, 2004, 04:06:16 pm »

Hello King,

I'd be interested in Beta testing for you.

I have 27,201 tunes. I would say that 75 percent or more have cover art.

Michel.

matshif · « **Reply #5 on:** November 27, 2004, 06:34:14 pm »

Hello Sparta

I have 19,105 tunes. I would say that 75 percent or more have cover art.
Mats

drgreenlove · « **Reply #6 on:** November 27, 2004, 07:10:11 pm »

Only 6000 tunes javascript:replaceText('

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embarrassed

But 75-80% without album art!

Charlemagne 8 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 27, 2004, 09:27:23 pm »

Hi King,
I've got about 25,000, about half with cover art.
If I understand how things work, I've sent you some cover art that I had.
CVIII

Dopas · « **Reply #8 on:** November 28, 2004, 09:11:49 am »

I'd like to join for beta testing as well.

I have around 8000 tunes. Currently 10% without coverart, since I used your current version of cover art finder. It also also got me some wrong cover art, so I will need to redo some of them.

Good job on the whole thing.

Dom

KingSparta · « **Reply #9 on:** November 28, 2004, 10:15:54 am »

Current Build is 0.0.76

I can't find nothing wrong

this build only logs in once in batch or when it is needed (like a disconnection). this should give the server a break on the number of repeated logins.

fixed a bug when registering, it did not always work like advertized

if you are running something older than 0.0.76 please download the current version

KingSparta · « **Reply #10 on:** November 28, 2004, 11:13:50 am »

Oops

Current Build is 0.0.77

It was sending the Wrong TitleName.txt To The Server

This is A Small Text File That Tells The Dir What Is The Title Name Is For All The Files In This Dir.

Dopas · « **Reply #11 on:** November 28, 2004, 11:51:57 am »

Just tried it out. Pretty good. I like the new option to only download if the cover art is not downloaded yet ... before it overwrote several good ones with new bad ones.

I have following wished:
- Before there was the option to specifically tell the program how to search. I would like to for example never download anything without using the artist name, since only using the album name is risky it gets quite some bad stuff. Is there a way to tell the cover art update this?
- I still have some bad cover arts. For those I would like to be able to remove the cover art and force the program to find a new ones on-line. So an option saying: Remove Cover arts and search ... this should be available for mode 1 and mode 2.

Thanks
Dom

KingSparta · « **Reply #12 on:** November 28, 2004, 02:33:00 pm »

As it states in the help file it does a search for

Try #1
ArtistName & AlbumName

Try #2
ArtistName & SongName

Try #3
ArtistName

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I did just get back from my walk and i did not see anyone using the program So i Just Swiched Out My PowerBackUp System To A New One (Bigger) That I Bought ToDay.

So I did notice if it does not get a connection it will still run thru the files like it was connected, I Guess Thats A Bug.

But i was Thinking About A Option To Allow A User To Upgrade Or Downgrade So No Matter If You Already Had Art It Would Attempt To Replace What You Have.

Quote

I still have some bad cover arts. For those I would like to be able to remove the cover art and force the program to find a new ones on-line. So an option saying: Remove Cover arts and search ...

You Will Always Get Bad Art, Unless You In Manual Mode Go And Delete It Off The Server, And The Offending User Does Not Upload Bad Art Again.

But you can replace art Now In Manual Mode For The Playing Song To Double Click On The Visable Art, It Will Download And Replace Your Current Art That Will Be The Best Way Of Finding Art And Replacing Your Current Art.

KingSparta · « **Reply #13 on:** November 29, 2004, 07:08:15 am »

I added this morning Always Get Art (Not Tested) But i made a build anyway.

what it will do see you have art, check to see if the server has it, if not then the plug-in will upload it to the server.

then the plug-in will put it's self into get art mode and get art for the media file.

like i said i have not tested it yet (I had to go to work) but it should work.

KingSparta · « **Reply #14 on:** November 29, 2004, 12:24:50 pm »

0.0.80 seems to work when using the Get New Art even if you have art. adding received art to the list was broken also, fixed now.

0.0.79 did not work well at all

cascius · « **Reply #15 on:** November 29, 2004, 05:32:07 pm »

I wouldn't mind beta testing this as well. PM me a link if you want me to participate.

Thanks for the yet again great work,

-Cascius

NoCodeUK · « **Reply #16 on:** November 30, 2004, 02:28:47 am »

I'd be interested in testing this too King if you can send me a link.

Cheers

Adam

audiosorcerer · « **Reply #17 on:** November 30, 2004, 07:27:31 am »

hi....

it seems to work pretty well...three things i want to mention

1. it would be nice if the internet-search-option would also be included in it. perhaps an amazon picture is even bigger than the ones in your database. the best possible thing i could imagine would be if you could choose the cover art in selector (if you want to) so it would also be possible to clean up your database by marking wrong covers....

2. it seems as if the plugin is uploading a cover for every SONG, when the whole album has of course the same cover art. it does this even multiple times, if i run it a second time for example

3. in the "other" section are no artist/album name viewable...it just says something like "file:3458 - \album\546532.jpg" would be nice if the names apear there....

thanks a lot for your work....

KingSparta · « **Reply #18 on:** November 30, 2004, 08:49:45 am »

1. was thinking of something like that last night

2. that may depend on the version you are using, for a few days i was uploading text no matter what.

it may also have something to do with your settings

it will send the album for each song, since art for each song could be dif, it should not send it for the album or artist every time.

I can't work on it today, maybe tonight but i will check into it a bit more.

3. was thinking about that

one list send and rec for more space

Rec: ArtistName - AlbumName etc....
Snd: ArtistName - AlbumName etc....

audiosorcerer · « **Reply #19 on:** November 30, 2004, 09:23:59 am »

yes that sounds good...atm it actually works i can also download covers i uploaded before...another problem i mentioned was when i'm in normal playing, at the beginning of each song mc is veeeery slow (it is up/downloading cover art)
it would be good if the plugin checks if the same cover art is already in the database and if it is, not upload it.....

KingSparta · « **Reply #20 on:** November 30, 2004, 09:44:34 am »

Quote

it would be good if the plugin checks if the same cover art is already in the database and if it is, not upload it.....

it does

it takes your cover art, checkes its size if it inside a file it extracts it from the media file or just checks the size of the external art.

then it gets a dir from the remote server for that album, title, and artist
if not found it uploads it to the server.

KingSparta · « **Reply #21 on:** November 30, 2004, 06:31:10 pm »

0.0.83 is up

Fixed: Would Always Download When in "Always Get Art" mode (basicly to upgrade the art), Now It Will Check To See If It Already Has The Art By Compairing The File Size, If It Does It WillNot Download What It Already Has.

Changed Send Receive List to just one list

See The Changed Screens Above

park · « **Reply #22 on:** December 01, 2004, 08:33:02 am »

I'd like to test this too if poss.

Where can I download a copy from. I couldnt see it on King Spartas main page.

I have close to 10,000 songs

about 400 are missing cover art

bebop · « **Reply #23 on:** December 01, 2004, 11:07:01 am »

King, this version is great! One of the earlier ones changed some of my art...but then i might have not set it properly. However, put throug all my stuff and it uploaded fine. Am in the process of double checking all the art work and have submitted correct covers if I find an error. this too, has been working supurbly. The checking may take a while, though, cause have over 14,000 tunes now. Thanks again for all the work. Will also put through the few that I don't have art for and let you know of the progress. Bet

audiosorcerer · « **Reply #24 on:** December 01, 2004, 11:23:32 am »

i think there could be a problem with the deleting of wrong art... if you this plugin will go public and many people are using this, the problem would get bigger....
when there's a wrong cover on the server and i delete it, somebody perhaps has already downloaded this one and has not deleted it on his own computer, it will upload again this wrong cover... there should be a mechanism to prohibit this, like a black or white list or something... its not that beig a problem now but i can grow i think

sorry for my bad english, i hope you understand what i mean

KingSparta · « **Reply #25 on:** December 01, 2004, 11:26:44 am »

yes, it is working well

KingSparta · « **Reply #26 on:** December 01, 2004, 04:54:03 pm »

If the plug-in expires on a date, it kept giving you a notice that it expired.

it will do it once now

added expire date to plug-in version #

0.0.84 expires on the 5th of dec

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i was thinking about putting a button to see cover art.

this will bring up a web page with all art for that artist on the system

maybe i will see how it works this weekend.

Michel Lefebvre · « **Reply #27 on:** December 01, 2004, 05:16:22 pm »

Quote from: KingSparta on December 01, 2004, 04:54:03 pm

i was thinking about putting a button to see cover art.

this will bring up a web page with all art for that artist on the system

maybe i will see how it works this weekend.

Excellent idea King!

Michel.

dynamic · « **Reply #28 on:** December 01, 2004, 09:27:44 pm »

i have a large collection of high quality cover art. some scanned and resize to 500x500. all are 500x500 and saved independently of MC or any file compression software. would love to share and i would love to try no finder. please include me. thanks

KingSparta · « **Reply #29 on:** December 02, 2004, 05:39:47 am »

currently there is:

Cover Art Images: 83,000 covers on the server

Michel Lefebvre · « **Reply #30 on:** December 02, 2004, 07:08:11 am »

Quote from: KingSparta on December 02, 2004, 05:39:47 am

currently there is:

Cover Art Images: 83,000 covers on the server

King,

Is that 83,000 songs or albums?

Michel.

KingSparta · « **Reply #31 on:** December 02, 2004, 07:21:41 am »

albums

there was 249,000 covers devided by 3 that is 83,000

there are some that is the same cover but at a dif size

KingSparta · « **Reply #32 on:** December 02, 2004, 01:46:16 pm »

0.0.85 is up

this version now has a "View" button

so when your in manual mode you can press this "View" button

this will write a html file with the code to pull up all the images that are in the current dir.

after that is done, the plug-in will pull up a browser window so you can view all the images.

the images are centered on the page in orginal size, with the file name centered below it, in the order they are listed in the listing.

let me know if it works, it does here

Michel Lefebvre · « **Reply #33 on:** December 02, 2004, 02:02:51 pm »

Quote from: KingSparta on December 02, 2004, 01:46:16 pm

0.0.85 is up

this version now has a "View" button

so when your in manual mode you can press this "View" button

this will write a html file with the code to pull up all the images that are in the current dir.

after that is done, the plug-in will pull up a browser window so you can view all the images.

the images are centered on the page in orginal size, with the file name centered below it, in the order they are listed in the listing.

let me know if it works, it does here

King,

The View HTML page gets created, but the thumbnails don't appear (I.E.: a picture with a red X is displayed - The link is broken.)

The link under the JPG points to www2.spartasoft.com. (IE:
http:/www2.spartasoft.com:8080/DataMaster2/A/acdc/jpg/11966.jpg for example)

Michel.

JimH · « **Reply #34 on:** December 02, 2004, 02:20:39 pm »

Quote from: Michel Lefebvre on December 02, 2004, 02:02:51 pm

http:/www2.spart ...

There is a slash missing. http:/ should be http://

Michel Lefebvre · « **Reply #35 on:** December 02, 2004, 02:34:53 pm »

Quote from: JimH on December 02, 2004, 02:20:39 pm

Quote from: Michel Lefebvre on December 02, 2004, 02:02:51 pm
http:/www2.spart ...
There is a slash missing. http:/ should be http://

Good eye! I never noticed it....

M.

KingSparta · « **Reply #36 on:** December 02, 2004, 02:58:55 pm »

Ok Try it Now

0.0.86

this also adds an option

where the help page was is the "Cover Art" Tab

help is accessed by the Start Page

there is an Option On The setup page, where you can pull this up in a new browser window, or the Browser window in the plug-in

Michel Lefebvre · « **Reply #37 on:** December 02, 2004, 03:12:14 pm »

That works great now!

Michel.

KingSparta · « **Reply #38 on:** December 02, 2004, 03:34:44 pm »

what would be neat would be to have a drop box and you could pull the image to the drop box it would be downloaded and saved to the current file.

not sure i know how to do that it would be neat

Michel Lefebvre · « **Reply #39 on:** December 02, 2004, 03:40:36 pm »

Quote from: KingSparta on December 02, 2004, 03:34:44 pm

what would be neat would be to have a drop box and you could pull the image to the drop box it would be downloaded and saved to the current file.

not sure i know how to do that it would be neat

That would be nice. Or maybe just a check box beside the album art that you want to select for the file?

M.

KingSparta · « **Reply #40 on:** December 02, 2004, 03:59:32 pm »

well the problem with that is if it was in a new browser window the check mark idea would not work.

but the drop box\bucket\target would work no matter

KingSparta · « **Reply #41 on:** December 02, 2004, 06:37:52 pm »

0.0.87

Added: Drop Box

So when you view a list of images on the browser you can now drag that image to the drop box.

once you drop it in the drop box the plug-in will save it to the current file

kind of neat really

Michel Lefebvre · « **Reply #42 on:** December 02, 2004, 06:57:02 pm »

King,

I can't seem to be able to drag & drop to the Drop box....

Michel.

KingSparta · « **Reply #43 on:** December 02, 2004, 07:13:41 pm »

Quote from: Michel Lefebvre on December 02, 2004, 06:57:02 pm

King,

I can't seem to be able to drag & drop to the Drop box....

Michel.

I tested it on two computers, and it worked.

Push The View Images

Click On A Image In The Browser Window

Drag It To The Box

It Should Show A Draging Icon

Drop It

With Version: 0.0.88

Shows A Busy Pointer, This Version Also Makes Sure It Is A "JPG" Or "GIF" Image the user is draging.

After it is copied from the temp folder then the pointer turns back to default

Anyone Else?

KingSparta · « **Reply #44 on:** December 02, 2004, 07:24:23 pm »

Thought About Another Option

Size Of Image:

Not Smaller Than: xxxxx Bytes
Not Larger Than: xxxxx Bytes

bennyd · « **Reply #45 on:** December 03, 2004, 12:54:01 am »

At my PC when I Drag & Drop, it is copying it to my temp directory and saving it to the mp3 file with the path to the temp file.
So if I delete my temp dir, the image is gone but my mp3 file still is looking for it in my temp dir

KingSparta · « **Reply #46 on:** December 03, 2004, 05:27:21 am »

Quote from: bennyd on December 03, 2004, 12:54:01 am

At my PC when I Drag & Drop, it is copying it to my temp directory and saving it to the mp3 file with the path to the temp file.
So if I delete my temp dir, the image is gone but my mp3 file still is looking for it in my temp dir

ok try 0.0.89

I store mine inside so thats why i did not see that, but i was thinking about that last night before i went to bed.

bennyd · « **Reply #47 on:** December 03, 2004, 06:22:20 am »

Quote from: KingSparta on December 03, 2004, 05:27:21 am

Quote from: bennyd on December 03, 2004, 12:54:01 am
At my PC when I Drag & Drop, it is copying it to my temp directory and saving it to the mp3 file with the path to the temp file.
So if I delete my temp dir, the image is gone but my mp3 file still is looking for it in my temp dir

ok try 0.0.89

I store mine inside so thats why i did not see that, but i was thinking about that last night before i went to bed.

Working ok, thanks

dcwebman · « **Reply #48 on:** December 03, 2004, 07:50:36 am »

King, I emailed you awhile ago to try and get in on the testing of this new plugin but never heard anything. I realize you are probably very busy but can I get in?
Thanks,
Jeff

KingSparta · « **Reply #49 on:** December 03, 2004, 07:57:00 am »

Quote from: dcwebman on December 03, 2004, 07:50:36 am

King, I emailed you awhile ago to try and get in on the testing of this new plugin but never heard anything. I realize you are probably very busy but can I get in?
Thanks,
Jeff

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