Comments on: Automate Artist Image Downloads

By: verymagicfellow

verymagicfellow — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:12:21 +0000

hello, i can’t seem to get this to work.
i get it to download the image
but then when i try to view it, my image viewer says it’s not a valid file…am i doing something wrong ?
also,
“C:\program files\foobar2000\artistimagebig.exe” “$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)%artist%”
should put the image in the folder of the artist you are trying to get.

By: [tourist].Tam

[tourist].Tam — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:37:22 +0000

How do you get to fetch the album as well ?

By: FofR

FofR — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:43:26 +0000

I’ll update the script in a short while.

By: FofR

FofR — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:43:05 +0000

A cumbersome way of doing that would be to make and run a little batch script that copies the artistimagebig.exe file to the appropriate folder, executes it, then deletes it. Shouldn’t be too difficult. Though there may be problems in presenting special characters in the batch file.

By: SaintofKillers

SaintofKillers — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:13:48 +0000

Word, Nathan. If this program can download the artist images directly to the artist’s respective folder, this would rock even more. It makes me look less of an obsessive-compulsive prick, too. Heh.

By: Scrollop

Scrollop — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:12:11 +0000

Try using the command line:

“C:\Program Files\Foobar2000\Artists\artistimagebig.exe” $replace($replace(%artist%, ,” “),&,and)

so instead of using + the file names outputed use ” ” (ie. spaces).

Nice program!

By: FofR

FofR — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:43:29 +0000

These problems are mostly a limitation of PanelsUI I am afraid – its not possible to grab image dimensions.

I’ll look into the big/small thing.

By: WWNSX

WWNSX — Thu, 31 May 2007 22:36:40 +0000

Okay While this works it only works part of the Time at least for me. I followed the instructions and finally got it to work but foobar or whatever it uses to display the artist image will not recognize it if i left the + in the sting so I removed it.

That seemed to help but now if some images do not fit a exact even width x height format maybe (180 x180 and not something like 123×180 because that it doesn’t seem to display odd pixel numbered images ) it won’t display the and also you have to pause and then un-pause the music to have the image display.

Maybe having some setting to resize the image to whatever is downloaded would be good and also configure it to read the images when they’re format with the plus for example it won’t read a image that is “yoko+kanno.jpg” but if it’s “yokokanno.jpg” it’ll read the image.

I’d also like to see a setting is possible so you can use Artist image big or Artist image Thumb so if you format a file as “Yoko+Kanno+Big.jpg” and “Yoko+Kanno+Thumb.jpg” you can switch between using large and small images.

By: toolej

toolej — Wed, 02 May 2007 23:09:11 +0000

I can’t remember, is there a program like this for album images?

Latarz.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:02:55 +0000

This program is very nice! Thnx for making
I have assigned a run service in foobar2000 of this:
“C:\Program Files\foobar2000\artistimagebig.exe” “$replace($replace(%artist%, ,+),&,and)”

This downloads the artist image to my foobar2000 directory.
Is there any way of getting the image to download to the folder where the mp3 is stored?

Sorry if you have already explained this above. Still new at all this stuff.

Thnx