Thread: Album art downloader

Originally Posted by hijinks21

thats a bug i have to work out.. looks like you might have closed that app and a thread was still running in the background. I think its a simple fix though.

I plan on doing your type dir layout this week. RIght now if you set D:\Share\MP3\ as your root to mass load you should get a output like

arist ----nothing---- <button>

if not let me know

Do I need to reboot to get rid of this rogue thread? I get no output at all at the moment when I point it to D:\SHARE\MP3\

If I move my folder will it run better? Say D:\MP3 ?

Chris.

moving shouldn't matter. You shouldn't need to reboot. if you close that console window the thread will die.

I'll do a test at work tomorrow with your setup and see what happens.

new version.. check the first post for the run down. I have added a new directory structure

arist
album1
album2

I'm having trouble getting it to work with the new directory structure. Here's what my directory structure is:
d:\MP3\Artist1\Album1
d:\MP3\Artist1\Album2
d:\MP3\Artist2\Album1
d:\MP3\Artist3\Album1
d:\MP3\Artist3\Album2
...
Not finding any artwork. I'll attach a screen shot of my dir structure and error I receive. I select d:\mp3 as the start directory. Let me know what I'm doing wrong.

Originally Posted by rgardjr

I'm having trouble getting it to work with the new directory structure. Here's what my directory structure is:
d:\MP3\Artist1\Album1
d:\MP3\Artist1\Album2
d:\MP3\Artist2\Album1
d:\MP3\Artist3\Album1
d:\MP3\Artist3\Album2
...
Not finding any artwork. I'll attach a screen shot of my dir structure and error I receive. I select d:\mp3 as the start directory. Let me know what I'm doing wrong.

ok i'll do more testing with the code in windows.. thanks for the screenshots.. hopefully they will help.

ok new version out.. delete the art dir and just use this one..

rgardjr and ukchris i should have fixed your issues

Originally Posted by hijinks21

ok new version out.. delete the art dir and just use this one..

rgardjr and ukchris i should have fixed your issues

I have it running right now and its finding some of the covers. Tried this morning and it crashed after about 10 albums-I think it was probably Amazons fault. Definatley seems faster running at off peak hour. I thing I've noticed and don't have a suggestion to fix is that for any double disc or box set that has album name with a disc # it won't find ever. I'll let you know tommorow how it does after a full run. Thanks Again!

Originally Posted by rgardjr

I have it running right now and its finding some of the covers. Tried this morning and it crashed after about 10 albums-I think it was probably Amazons fault. Definatley seems faster running at off peak hour. I thing I've noticed and don't have a suggestion to fix is that for any double disc or box set that has album name with a disc # it won't find ever. I'll let you know tommorow how it does after a full run. Thanks Again!

i found that problem yesterday. I had to change how the library was grabbing the XML data from amazon to a function that can't handle http error codes like 405/500 and such. I have that problem fixed and I'll make another build asap

Originally Posted by hijinks21

i found that problem yesterday. I had to change how the library was grabbing the XML data from amazon to a function that can't handle http error codes like 405/500 and such. I have that problem fixed and I'll make another build asap

One feature request I'd make would be for an output file that could be sorted so you could have a record of which covers weren't found. That way you could go back to those albums and manually search for covers.