App to Copy Artwork and Details to Movie Folder v0.5.6 (1 Viewer)

[kiwijunglist]

no worries, would love to test it. i use autohotkey a little, but i couldn't figure out how to read a directory. I'm not a programmer so thought it would probably take me several days to figure it out, while a programmer could do it in half an hour.

 

[jmcentire]

I can also suggest a similar idea for music

Most users use the following structure
\artist\album\filename.mp3

Most users have \artist\album\folder.jpg = album thumbnail

It would be good to autocreate \artist\folder.jpg = artist thumbnail

Mediaportal already has the artist images in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Music\Artists\
There are two images for each arist, aristname.jpg and artistnameL.jpg
These images are created automatically by audioscrobber plugin and creates an artist image from last.fm for every artist in the database.
A stand alone application could populate artist folder.jpg as follows

1. User select root music folder %rootfolder%
2. Applications scans the name of each of %rootfolder%'s level 1 subfolder and stores it as %subfoldername%
3. If exist C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Music\Artists\%subfoldername%L.jpg then copy that file to %rootfolder%\%subfoldername%\folder.jpg

I don't have music setup on my machine, so I went off exactly what you told me, should work but let me know either way.

 

[kiwijunglist]

Works perfectly on 95% of my music, thanks!!!!

It failed on a few artists with The prefix.

i have "The Smashing Pumpkins" subfolder and "The Smashing PumpkinsL.jpg", so that works fine.
i have "The Mint Chicks" subfolder and have "Mint ChicksL.jpg" so that doesn't work.

Mediaportal or audioscrobber plugins strips the 'The' prefix from some artists but not all.

It also failed on a couple of compilation albums however that is because mediaportal grabs arist images not album artist images, and i can't see an uncomplicated way around this problem.

Therefore i can suggest one improvement

1. User select root music folder %rootfolder%
2. Applications scans the name of each of %rootfolder%'s level 1 subfolder and stores it as %subfoldername%
3. If exist C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Music\Artists\%subfoldername%L.jpg
    then copy that file to %rootfolder%\%subfoldername%\folder.jpg

4. if notexist C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Music\Artists\%subfoldername%L.jpg
   AND first four letters of %subfoldername% = "The " Then
       4a. %shortartistname% = %subfodlername% less first 4 characters
       4b. If exist C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Music\Artists\[B]%shortartistname%L.jpg[/B]
             then copy that file to %rootfolder%\%subfoldername%\folder.jpg

 

[jmcentire]

Works perfectly on 95% of my music, thanks!!!!

It failed on a few artists with The prefix.

i have "The Smashing Pumpkins" subfolder and "The Smashing PumpkinsL.jpg", so that works fine.
i have "The Mint Chicks" subfolder and have "Mint ChicksL.jpg" so that doesn't work.

Mediaportal or audioscrobber plugins strips the 'The' prefix from some artists but not all.

It also failed on a couple of compilation albums however that is because mediaportal grabs arist images not album artist images, and i can't see an uncomplicated way around this problem.

Therefore i can suggest one improvement

1. User select root music folder %rootfolder%
2. Applications scans the name of each of %rootfolder%'s level 1 subfolder and stores it as %subfoldername%
3. If exist C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Music\Artists\%subfoldername%L.jpg
    then copy that file to %rootfolder%\%subfoldername%\folder.jpg

4. if notexist C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Music\Artists\%subfoldername%L.jpg
   AND first four letters of %subfoldername% = "The " Then
       4a. %shortartistname% = %subfodlername% less first 4 characters
       4b. If exist C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Music\Artists\[B]%shortartistname%L.jpg[/B]
             then copy that file to %rootfolder%\%subfoldername%\folder.jpg

Added that, give the new version a try(attached to the above post):
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...ils-movie-folder-71649/index6.html#post527298

 

[kiwijunglist]

did a quick test, seems to work with mint chicks. thanks a lot.

 

[dongadomski]

question regarding special characters

Hi all,

thanks for the cool script. It works perfectly well for me with one little drawback.

If I use special characters i.e. german ä,ö,ü the extraction from the database and the creation of the .nfo files will not work.

If I change the directory names, the .nfo creation works although the characters are still included in the movie title.
However, the cover art cannot be extracted from the "thumbs" directory with the following error message in the log-file.
"Cover not found at C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Thumbs\MovingPictures\Covers\FullSize\{WALL-E.-.Der.Letzte.räumt.die.Erde.auf} [326824773].jpg for WALL-E - Der Letzte räumt die Erde auf - 20091129103952"

Is it possible to include the use of this special characters in the script - with limited effort?

Or am I just missing something?

Thanks
DonGadomski

 

[dongadomski]

Hi all,

I made some additional tests. It seems that the csv export of sqlite is in utf8 format and special characters cannot be read by autohotkey. I paused the script and reformatted the csvs to ansi - it works.
As the next step I want to include stringconverter in the script to format the file to ansi.
Probably this is all to complicated as the variables can be changed inside autohotkey from unicode to ansi.
However, I was not able to understand autohotkey quick enough to get the A_Loopfield converted in the right way. So I will give stringconverter a try. But my next chance will be on Thursday.

A hint to an elegant way to change the file/variables to ansi inside autohotkey would be very appreciated.
Can sqlite probably be switched to export ansi csvs?

Thanks for even the smallest idea.
CU
Dongadomski

 

[kiwijunglist]

maybe ask on autohotkey forum, it's a pretty active forum with quick answers and good advice

 

[jmcentire]

I had noticed that problem before, and it seems you have found what is causing it...I'll try and take a look at it in the next day or two to see if I can get it to work.
Thanks

Hi all,

I made some additional tests. It seems that the csv export of sqlite is in utf8 format and special characters cannot be read by autohotkey. I paused the script and reformatted the csvs to ansi - it works.
As the next step I want to include stringconverter in the script to format the file to ansi.
Probably this is all to complicated as the variables can be changed inside autohotkey from unicode to ansi.
However, I was not able to understand autohotkey quick enough to get the A_Loopfield converted in the right way. So I will give stringconverter a try. But my next chance will be on Thursday.

A hint to an elegant way to change the file/variables to ansi inside autohotkey would be very appreciated.
Can sqlite probably be switched to export ansi csvs?

Thanks for even the smallest idea.
CU
Dongadomski

 

[kiwijunglist]

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