SUMMARY
The FindArt plugin provides a simple way to find and save cover art
from within SC.
It is not intended to provide the bulk loading of cover art. It is
intended for small collections, fill in missing art or correction of
existing cover art. It only works from the SC Web interface. The user
interface is a bit clunky as I didn't want to write code to do album
browsing. This is a beta release as plugin needs more testing with
different browsers, networked drive configurations and various
character sets.
WHAT IT DOES
The FindArt plugin searches Amazon for cover art based on the Album
name of the playing song. The user can save selected cover art either
in the album folder or in a designated folder. The plugin does not
handle SC's advanced cover art naming possibilities just standard
cover.jpg, folder.jpg etc.. If trying to save art into album folder
make sure SC process has permissions to do so.
INSTALL
Install the plugin by unzipping into the Plugins directory appropriate
for your installation - lookup Wiki. After installation restart SC and
there should be a "Find cover art" extry in the Extras menu.
USE
To use - play a song from an album. Go back to "home" and select the
"Find cover art" from Extras. The LHS panel of WebUI should display
current cover art and first cover art from search of Amazon. A max of
10 covers are retrieved from Amazon - use Next & Prev to go through
the matches. The Amazon ASIN number is linked to Amazon detailed info
page - useful to check album details.
SETTINGS
There are a number of settings which affects where cover art is saved
and also how Amazon search is performed. The following is a brief
description of the settings and their use.
"Do a database scan after save" - if checked then after a cover image
is saved into an album folder, a database scan will be performed of
album folder. After the save and scan to actually see the update cover
images will depend on the browser but you generally need to reload the
page Embedded art may take precedence - I don't know as I never
tested.
"Replace current folder art" - If saving art into an album folder - the
plugin will rename the current covert art image (adding a digit to end).
This means new cover art file should be the file that is used.
"Save art in special folder" - cover art will be save in the designated
folder ("directory name for cover art" setting) and not in album folder
(so previous scan and replace options are ignored). The saved file
name will include the album name and artist name This is useful if SC
cannot write into album folders - user can subsequently move saved art
into album folder and then initiate a database scan.
"Cover art name" filename to be used when saving in album folder.
"Select Amazon locale" - the Amazon locale to be used for searches. The
search results will depend on the locale as some albums may not be on
sale in some countries and cover art can vary by country.
"Select search type" Choose between Title search or Keywords search. A
keyword search just uses words of album title that exceed min length
setting. Keyword search is useful sometimes when album name entered in
SC is somehow different from Amazon title.
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