Mongo Wrote: > I have tried using WMP to download artwork and it seems to work only > sporadically. Is there a reliable method built into the program that I > am missing? "Find Album info" pulls up the artwork, but even verifying > the album track by track does not always download the art.
i'll try to explain, but not guarantees i'm complete... my technique has evolved slowly and organically, so i don't know i recall it all. i use the newest WMP available btw. 1. open WMP, go to "tools - options" 2. under "library" check "retrieve info from the net..." and then check "only add missing info" 3. also under library, click "monitor folders" and then tell it both the root folder where you store your rips, AND the more specific "staging" folder where you create your new rips before you place them into your collection proper. if you don't use a staging folder, you should start, and it makes it very likely that WMP will be aware of whatever you're ripping by mid CD or so. 4. you'll want WMP to be already open BEFORE you open EAC, and you'll want it to be displaying the cd in the rip drive in the now playing tab, with the visualization being "album art." you do NOT want it actually playing the CD however. you may also need to check "update music files by retrieving media info from the net" under the "privacy" tab, i don't know. anyway, thats the basic system, and when WMP isn't confused, it will place artwork into the album folder. it may help or matter that i use this as my filename creation: [staging folder]\artist\album\artist - ## - track title.mp3 Mongo Wrote: > Secondly, I failed to access artwork as I ripped each CD, and now I wold > like to add it. Is downloading it album by album on WMP the best way to > go, or is there an alternate source and/or easier method? > > thanks if you tell it to monitor folders it will place what it can, BUT what frequently happens is that it is confused by multiple choices. this can happen if you are trying to retroactively get artwork, BUT it can also happen even if you follow my system above. what i do when WMP got no artwork or the wrong artwork, is i go into the WMP library, go into "album artist" and find the first song of the given CD, and then do a right click directly on the song itself, and then click "find album info" at that point there should be some multiple choices, but not always. sometimes there are no choices. i check every song on the cd until i find it if its there to be found. i have had cds where i found it one just one random track... but i always check the first one first, b/c once you find the album (with the right art) that you want to use, you have to actually click on the album cover, and WMP then updates your track, changing its tag, and placing the artwork in the album folder. i always do the first track b/c its easier to recall its that one i need to edit the tag info back on, (or vice versa, depending who has the better info). WMP can be messy in how it stores all the tracks in the library off of any one given CD, BUT if you poke around you will find all the tracks, as long as you monitor your folders as i described above. be sure to have WMP scan your collection once to get started. let me know if i can clarify anything, -mdw -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.3 - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25266 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
