Mp3Tag & Album Art Downloader Tut, pick up album art and include it into mp3 files Options

[TGK]

g.p.m.
Everything is now figured out, I thought that just keeps floppy disks icon artwork to the tag file - no step 3

it would be nice if the step 2, you can combine with step 3, ie, to not have to always use the "action" and choose, and click the floppy icon in step 2 and the cover will be maintained once the tag mp3 file

This post has been edited by TGK: Jan 28 2012, 20:03

[Kubaton]

Thanks for the great tutorial, g.p.m.! I found one minor caveat to your parameter in the album string. I had to do a bit of trial and error to get it modified the way I needed. I use the Last.fm Cover script as my main source in AAD, of which many of the files are in PNG format. Using the hardcoded JPG extension always names the file folder.jpg (my choice of cover art filenames), regardless of the true filetype. I came up with the following parameter string, which names the file correctly regardless of its type. I've only done some minimal testing so I hope this is correct. So far it's worked perfectly for me.

/ar "%artist%" /al "%album%" /p "$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)folder.%%extension%%"

I've only tested the album parameter because all of my music is full albums so far.

Hope this helps someone having the same issue.

Regards,
Kubaton

[kaokulk]

The script works great!

One minor issue: If the Album Title contains a colon ("Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"), the script in Actions will bomb. I've been copying the album art in Album Art Downloader when the title has a colon and pasting manually.

[Dhaval]

thnx

[onix]

hi g.p.m.

i did the complete process as you were told here. but the problem is i dont get any search results from AAD other than what it found from the local folder.

what could it be the cause for this..
need your help...

Ditto... same for me

[XploRR]

Another faster way of batch downloading album art is using a new tool called DisCoverArt.
DisCoverArt is a command line tool to download albumart (coverart) for mp3 music files based on artist and title or album.
The target audience are people who have organized their music collection in a single track artist+title way iso based on albums or album directories.
This tool can be used stand-alone, but it was aimed to be used in conjunction with mp3tag.
See this topic: http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopic=17057