Adding cover art to music & dvd's.. (1 Viewer)

[hotponyshoes]

Hi,
I originally ripped all my cd's as .wav files (using EAC) and my dvd's as .vob files (usind dvdmagic) to my hard drive for a carpc project.

My cd's are all arranged in a folder structure of C:/CD/Artist/Album and each song is given a file name of Artist/Album/Song Title

I am now into htpc and have installed the latest version of mediaportal and the Xface skin.

I have read the forum and faq but I am a bit stuck with getting the cover art to display (like the preview of the xface skin on the media portal homepage).

I understand that I could add a folder called 'folder' to every album and place the coverart in it.
To do this I presume I would have to down load every one from the web (as a bitmap?) and stick each one in indivdually. This would be ok but I have about 3000 albums on the drive.

Is the procedure the same for dvd's? Not so much of an issue as I only have 10 of them.

I have tried doing the 'right-click' then 'add coverart' but it just comes up with 'artwork not found'

Is there a simple way to download lots of covers and add them automatically?
Cheers!!!

An Update:
Right-clicking on the dvd titles will find the info and download it.
Once I have done that how can I change the defult cover photo?

For example, Downloading the details for 'American Psycho' then gives me 15 images I can flick through.
Doing the same for 'American Phsyco 2' gives me the details for that film also but, in the preview list the same cover is shown for both movies.
Cheers again!

 

[rtv]

The release notes had a link to this thread

Maybe it is just what you want

btw: you won't need separate "folders" but a folder.jpg file containing the bitmap (this is a convention which will work for many apps - even in the unix world).

 

[mbuzina]

Do your media files have tags? If no, you should tag them first, then let MP scan the music database (in configuration) and then do the cover search.

If your files are ordered as you describe, adding tags should be easy. Use tagging tools ...


STOP. I see you use wav files! WAV does not support tagging --> makes a lousy music format. You should convert to other format that supports tagging (and lossless audio, if that is what you desire, e.g. flagg & ogg I think, no expert here, though). Then you can add tags (which is nice to have a file remember which album, artist etc. it is from, no matter where it is stored.)