Topic: aTagger v1.1.3 is available (Read 30379 times)

@l@n · « **on:** April 24, 2004, 03:16:28 am »

aTagger v1.1.3 is available from download at http://atagger.auldridge.biz/downloads/atagger_1_1_3.exe.

The list of updates/enhancements for v1.1.3 are:
- Correct the bug in the version checking code that is used to "Check for
Updates"
- Fix bug where the playlist that is configured to be used by aTagger is
deleted or renamed [Jonas]
- Apply the option to strip leading "The" & "A" on the artist names of
multi-artist albums
- Split the option to strip leading "The" & "A" on the artist and album
into two options, one for artists and another for albums
- (Starting in version 1.1.2) In addition to stripping "The", "A", and
", The" and retrying searches, aTagger will search for the album name
followed by a '[' character as there is often notation like [US] or
[Live] after album names that were keeping aTagger from exactly matching
the album name. Based on problems that [Jonas] identified, aTagger has
been modified to search all iterations of the album name (e.g., name,
The name, A name) based on the user selected search options and if the
album name is still not found, aTagger will again try all iterations of
the album name but followed by " [" the second time.

As always, please let me know about any problems that you encounter.

Enjoy... @l@n

TimB · « **Reply #1 on:** April 25, 2004, 04:21:51 am »

Alan, thanks for the ongoing work on this GREAT Plug-in!

-=Tim=-

Jonas · « **Reply #2 on:** April 25, 2004, 08:34:34 am »

Thanks!

How do you treat "&" characters in album names? It seems like you may not escape them since one of my albums called "Då & nu 1991-1996" is matched by an album called "D.A.".

enigman · « **Reply #3 on:** April 25, 2004, 12:09:37 pm »

First off, let me just say that I love this plugin. Great work.

A few thoughts that would make it better:

1. If fields don't exist in the database, pop up a warning BEFORE running the entire search, rather than an error in the log at the end of it. I spent 3 hours tagging my entire collection only to realize that I had added a field called sytles to my database but told aTagger to dump stuff in styles instead.

2. Store some sort of album ID field for faster updates

3. Strip leading or trailing punctuation (ie ...but seriously or Endtroducing...)

4. Other people have already suggested it, but an option to manually select an album during interactive mode if the search don't succeed. A possible quick-and-dirty workaround would be to simply pop open a web browser, have the user manually find the page with the album info, and then copy and paste that URL into aTagger. This would probably be much easier to implement than a built-in pick list of albums from a particular artist, and would also allow the user to find albums where the artist was incorrectly identified or otherwise not present (mix albums, etc)

Thanks again for a great plugin!

--Tim

enigman · « **Reply #4 on:** April 25, 2004, 05:30:24 pm »

One other thing I noticed - it seems that it is using artist rather than album artist for the search. It would be great if there were an option to use Album Artist, because certain albums aren't being recognized correctly if they are many mix albums with the same title (ie the "DJ Kicks" or "Another Late Night" series.

Just a thought...

--Tim

DougHamm · « **Reply #5 on:** April 26, 2004, 04:52:02 pm »

@l@n, I run my TV display at 800x600 and notice that the plugin doesn't do a very good job at scaling to this lower resolution. On screens with lots of fields, they extend off the bottom of the screen. Can anything be done? Scrollbars, or more columns/fewer rows of info?

-Doug

@l@n · « **Reply #6 on:** April 26, 2004, 11:36:17 pm »

Quote from: DougHamm on April 26, 2004, 04:52:02 pm

@l@n, I run my TV display at 800x600 and notice that the plugin doesn't do a very good job at scaling to this lower resolution. On screens with lots of fields, they extend off the bottom of the screen. Can anything be done? Scrollbars, or more columns/fewer rows of info?

-Doug

Doug, I'll drop my resolution down to 800x600 and see how bad it is. If possible I'll reorganize the screen layout to get it all on the screen or add a scrollbar, or something.

--@l@n

Jonas · « **Reply #7 on:** April 27, 2004, 04:46:19 am »

Quote from: enigman on April 25, 2004, 12:09:37 pm

4. Other people have already suggested it, but an option to manually select an album during interactive mode if the search don't succeed.

Or even if it does succeed, since it may have found the wrong album.

DougHamm · « **Reply #8 on:** April 27, 2004, 09:32:11 pm »

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Doug, I'll drop my resolution down to 800x600 and see how bad it is. If possible I'll reorganize the screen layout to get it all on the screen or add a scrollbar, or something.

--@l@n

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Thanks!

-Doug

BlueGlow · « **Reply #9 on:** April 27, 2004, 11:51:21 pm »

Thanks, @l@n! Running the new one now. Looks like I may be getting more matches. More news in the morning.

BG

darkAngelChild · « **Reply #10 on:** April 29, 2004, 06:51:03 am »

just tried the plugin and it works great.

Very nice and very powerful. thanks for some great work.

One thing, i changed the plugin mode to 1 so it runs while I do other things in MC and I found it a big improvement.

another thing -could the plugin be made to remember options between sessions, mine seems to forget which boxes I have checked, even if I just open the options window above it then close it again, all options have been reset.

@l@n · « **Reply #11 on:** April 29, 2004, 09:24:59 am »

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just tried the plugin and it works great.

Very nice and very powerful. thanks for some great work.

Thanks for the positive feedback!

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One thing, i changed the plugin mode to 1 so it runs while I do other things in MC and I found it a big improvement.

I'll check that out. I never actually new what the mode did.

What kind of improvements did you see?

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another thing -could the plugin be made to remember options between sessions, mine seems to forget which boxes I have checked, even if I just open the options window above it then close it again, all options have been reset.

There is a save button in the bottom left corner of each of the options page. Everyone seems to overlook it so I need to make it larger or give a warning when you leave an options page after making changes.

iCamp · « **Reply #12 on:** April 29, 2004, 09:57:55 am »

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One thing, i changed the plugin mode to 1 so it runs while I do other things in MC and I found it a big improvement.

How do you do that?

@l@n · « **Reply #13 on:** April 29, 2004, 10:56:52 am »

Quote from: iCamp on April 29, 2004, 09:57:55 am

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One thing, i changed the plugin mode to 1 so it runs while I do other things in MC and I found it a big improvement.

How do you do that?

Using regedit, navigate to the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JRiver\Media Jukebox\Plugins\Interface\aTagger\PluginMode and change the value from 0 to 1.

Note: This can be DANGEROUS if you make a mistake while modifying the registry.

BlueGlow · « **Reply #14 on:** April 29, 2004, 11:54:53 am »

Hi @l@n,
Initial results are good, more matches and it looks like things are getting saved. I spotted one or two oddities that I will have to check out this weekend. Looks like aTagger may have found the artist "Apples in Stereo" on one album but not another. Both are listed in my DB as "Apples in Stereo", they are online as "THE Apples in Stereo".

darkAngelChild · « **Reply #15 on:** April 29, 2004, 03:26:54 pm »

Improvement I saw was that I could do other stuff in MC while it was searching

Was nice instead of just having to wait for the results.

changing it to 1 means its always running instead of only running when in focus so you can happily go about other tasks while its doing its work in the background.

udeups · « **Reply #16 on:** May 04, 2004, 01:37:38 am »

Hi Alan,

It looks like when I select Bios only, it's still looking for the album and reporting a failure even if the artist could be found. Is it possible to make the bios search only search by artist? Right now, for an artist whose album isn't found, but their bio *could* be, the plugin doesn't find it...

thanks!

Lasse_Lus · « **Reply #17 on:** May 12, 2004, 03:56:51 am »

hi alan, this is a super plugin, i've done this before manually.... and now i can relax thanks to you.

...but if i do a manual change within aTagger it will only apply it on the first song for that particular album...no good

thanks Lasse Lus

roognation · « **Reply #18 on:** May 20, 2004, 04:18:43 pm »

Slight problem here, this plugin does not initialize/appear properly in MC 9.0.180. It appears albeit very oddly, as if the plugin window is overlayed on top of the MC window, but does not constrain to the plugin area. The upper left corner of the plugin appears to be nearly coincident with the upper left corner of the program. And MC text/graphics are masked and clunky. I had to restart MC to get back to normal. Are there any build-requirements for this plugin (e.g. MC10?).

Sounds like a great plugin, would love to try! Thanks!

gbdesai · « **Reply #19 on:** June 05, 2004, 01:08:45 pm »

This is a great plug-in! It will save me hundreds of hours.

Anyway I concur with Lasse_Lus about manual changes only applying to the first track in an album. I also have another problem in that cover art is not stored in the correct location. I have changed my default cover art directory to M:\Cover Art and it is still storing it in C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\Data\Cover Art, for now I just copy all of the images put them in the correct place and do a quick find in cover art directory.

I look forward to future versions of aTagger!

gbdesai · « **Reply #20 on:** June 06, 2004, 04:16:43 pm »

Oh, one more thing.

Images are also named based on the original Artist and Album name rather than the newly accepted Artist and Album name. For example I had an album by Sarah McLachlan and my original Album name was Remixed Arista, the real name was Remixed [2003 Arista], the image is actually still names "Sarah McLachlan - Remixed Arista.jpg" rather than "Sarah McLachlan - Remixed [2003 Arista].jpg" since I have to manually relocate the files to the correct cover art directory, when I do a "Library Tools/Image/Quick Find in Image Directory" it obviously doesn't find the file since the names are wrong.

pipsqueak · « **Reply #21 on:** June 14, 2004, 06:56:53 pm »

alan - i just noticed that the atagger provides no way of changing and fixing the track names... is this easily added?

pip

gbdesai · « **Reply #22 on:** June 14, 2004, 08:55:49 pm »

I saw that on the to do list for future features...

LonWar · « **Reply #23 on:** June 15, 2004, 07:11:58 am »

Hi Alan...

Is it possible to have the system put a [Enter] after each line were it would normally be a ;

ie..

Currently if you use a track info plate the Songs field looks like this...

Song1; Song2; Song3

By putting a enter instead of a ;

Song1
Song2
Song3

Thanks

gbdesai · « **Reply #24 on:** June 15, 2004, 11:35:41 am »

Here are a few other minor bugs:

1. Though aTagger finds cover art when it is available for all albums it won't write the image to disc if the album title has an invalid character in it (I've only seen this with a colon ":")
2. Confirmed that aTagger writes images to the default Cover Art directory and not the one specified by the user in the Media Center settings
3. Using aTagger on a single album never saves album art

roognation · « **Reply #25 on:** June 16, 2004, 03:54:27 am »

This seems like a very useful program, and the interface is pretty cool. BUT, I have yet to get aTagger to save any data it finds. I assume this is user error, so if you could set me straight, I would appreciate it. I have not added any library fields, I just want to modify the existing ID3 tag data.

I one song in the playlist and go to aTagger, and start the tagging. It finds the correct tag and image (I started with no image associated with this file), and I click ok to change the tag...and I have checkboxes asserted: Image and in MC I have the "store image files inside mp3 files." I then get the error information:

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aTagger Version is 1.1.3
Tagging mode enabled -- Tags will be updated.
Processing 1 songs...
Processing artist: Green Day album artist: Green Day album: Dookie track #: 5 song: Welcome to Paradise
Image: None *** Different ***
*ERROR*: Unable to get Image tag.
Songs: 1 (1 updated, 0 skipped, 0 errors) Albums: 1 (1 updated, 0 skipped, 0 errors)

Any help?

Also, fairly regularly, I get an error when starting aTagger: "Object Reference Not Set to an instance of an object" I can usually go to playing now window and click back on aTagger and it seems to work.

Thanks a bunch!

gbdesai · « **Reply #26 on:** June 16, 2004, 09:12:30 am »

Roognation,

Did you manually add the appropriate user fields to the Media Center Library? aTagger won't automatically create the fields you need to store the info. You have to go to Options/Tree & View and define some new user fields.

Otherwise I'm not sure what is going on.

Gautam

skeeterfood · « **Reply #27 on:** June 16, 2004, 09:40:24 am »

Looks like @l@n has disappeared... The last time he posted to the boards was in April.

Hope he's OK.

-John

AoXoMoXoA · « **Reply #28 on:** June 23, 2004, 06:10:34 am »

FYI, does not work with MC11
(but since MC11 is an Alpha release I really did not expect it to).

LonWar · « **Reply #29 on:** June 23, 2004, 07:15:58 am »

Quote from: AoXoMoXoA on June 23, 2004, 06:10:34 am

FYI, does not work with MC11
(but since MC11 is an Alpha release I really did not expect it to).

I use v11 and I have no problems... What error are you getting?

AoXoMoXoA · « **Reply #30 on:** June 23, 2004, 10:39:41 pm »

nevermind, it is working now

Absurrrd · « **Reply #31 on:** June 28, 2004, 11:34:18 pm »

It looks real impressive and it I'll bet it's gonna blow those folks at MM( no not the chocolate candy people) out of the water. I wondered if there were additional setup instructions beyond basic installation posted anywhere......

gbdesai · « **Reply #32 on:** July 12, 2004, 05:02:14 pm »

I was on the AMG site a few minutes ago and suddenly on a new page refresh the site switched over to a new format. I assume aTagger is no good now... I'll try it soon and learn the inevetible.

LonWar · « **Reply #33 on:** July 12, 2004, 07:16:30 pm »

Nope... Atager isn't workin anymore....

Hopefully Alan is still around and can fix it....

gbdesai · « **Reply #34 on:** July 12, 2004, 10:03:38 pm »

That sucks. aTagger saved me a ton of time. I'd be willing to pay for aTagger (hint hint: Alan if you're listening).

iCamp · « **Reply #35 on:** July 12, 2004, 11:06:34 pm »

This is a MAJOR bummer. I really relied on aTagger.

darkAngelChild · « **Reply #36 on:** July 13, 2004, 02:10:05 pm »

To get a final sprint out of it before its no longer useable.

open the file: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

insert this line at the bottom: 63.211.17.231 www.allmusic.com

then open MC and run it - it'll re-direct www.allmusic.com to the IP of allmusic.com and so it'll work.

Enjoy and hurry up!

gbdesai · « **Reply #37 on:** July 13, 2004, 02:33:11 pm »

I tried that this morning, but the site was also the new site. Right now it is back to the old. Thanks for the heads-up.

AoXoMoXoA · « **Reply #38 on:** July 16, 2004, 10:22:38 am »

nope, all the links lead to the updated AMG site.

@l@n . . . . . HELP!!! pretty-please

pipsqueak · « **Reply #39 on:** July 18, 2004, 11:48:01 pm »

i PM'd alan a while ago and sadly havent heard back from him - i too am really missing aTagger

LonWar · « **Reply #40 on:** July 19, 2004, 08:01:49 am »

Quote from: pipsqueak on July 18, 2004, 11:48:01 pm

i PM'd alan a while ago and sadly havent heard back from him - i too am really missing aTagger

I haven't seen him around (I guess read) for a long time...

I hope all is well!

@l@n · « **Reply #41 on:** July 19, 2004, 08:11:59 pm »

I'm sorry that I haven't been around for a while. I spent so much time working on aTagger a while back that I built up a very long honey-do list with my wife. It's taken me a while to get her list in order

Since aTagger is not working at all

, I'll begin making updates ASAP. I'm not sure how long it will take as I just found out that aTagger is broken and I havent had any time to look at the new data format.

Thanks... @l@n

pipsqueak · « **Reply #42 on:** July 19, 2004, 08:15:19 pm »

Alan

Welcome back! Glad to hear you are still about.

pip

gbdesai · « **Reply #43 on:** July 19, 2004, 09:01:02 pm »

@l@n,

Hey I'd be glad to donate to the cause financially for such a great product. It has saved me hundreds, perhaps thousands of hours. Thanks again.

Gautam

LonWar · « **Reply #44 on:** July 19, 2004, 09:09:08 pm »

Quote from: @l@n on July 19, 2004, 08:11:59 pm

I'm sorry that I haven't been around for a while. I spent so much time working on aTagger a while back that I built up a very long honey-do list with my wife. It's taken me a while to get her list in order

Since aTagger is not working at all , I'll begin making updates ASAP. I'm not sure how long it will take as I just found out that aTagger is broken and I havent had any time to look at the new data format.

Thanks... @l@n

Glad to hear all is well Alan!!

iCamp · « **Reply #45 on:** July 20, 2004, 06:10:20 pm »

Glad you're back!!
So, you think it's possible to work with the updates made to the AMG site? I hope so as aTagger is the most important plug-in I use for any piece of software.

@l@n · « **Reply #46 on:** July 20, 2004, 09:46:47 pm »

Just a quick status on aTagger v1.2.0...

It looks like I wont have too many problems updating aTagger to use the new format. All of the parsing tags need to be updated, but for the most part it is not as bad as I initially thought.

Later... @l@n

Sauzee · « **Reply #47 on:** July 22, 2004, 12:18:55 pm »

@l@n

Welcome back.

Cocophone · « **Reply #48 on:** July 22, 2004, 05:17:38 pm »

Alan,

while you are updating aTagger, could you also make it so the user can choose where to store the cover art?

Thanks,

@l@n · « **Reply #49 on:** July 22, 2004, 11:31:04 pm »

Quote from: Cocophone on July 22, 2004, 05:17:38 pm

Alan,

while you are updating aTagger, could you also make it so the user can choose where to store the cover art?

Sure, I think that has been a problem for a lot of people.

Thanks for the request... @l@n

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