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[kpstanton]

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??

[mvandyke]

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

[mvandyke]

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

[mvandyke]

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

[Matt]

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

[mvandyke]

Thanks Matt for the update!

[Manfred]

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/
May be the strategy of maintaining an own catalog with unique formatted images of composers by the MC team would be an idea?

[JimH]

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

[kpstanton]

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

[dtc]

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