Why does artist preview has darkgray borders? (1 Viewer)

[joostzilla]

Since audioscrobbler does not find any artist images i have to create them from within the music config. But when i enable that option and scan my 5500 songs database the thumbs that are created all have dark gray borders. And some have more than one images. In all my folders i've created a artist preview image called folder.jpeg (for use in shares view). and all files have coverart in their tag.

So why is the artist preview not created exactly as the album thumb or even as the folder.jpg? It frustrates me a lot that it takes so much trouble to make the music section work like it should be. Imo all the options are way to scattered around the configuration. And it simple does not work!!!
And yes offcourse ive followed every music guide on the forum.

Hope this will get better in RC2

 

[jameson_uk]

Not sure if will help or not but I am currently doing some playing about and have a very badly written piece of code that should download artist images from last.fm.

Could you download something like SQLiteBrowser and just check there are entries in the artist table. Assuming there are could you provide me a list of four or five where Audioscrobbler did not download anything?

 

[joostzilla]

Not sure if will help or not but I am currently doing some playing about and have a very badly written piece of code that should download artist images from last.fm.

Could you download something like SQLiteBrowser and just check there are entries in the artist table. Assuming there are could you provide me a list of four or five where Audioscrobbler did not download anything?

Lol, i have no idea how to achieve what you mean.
Can you please guide me through?

 

[jameson_uk]

dowload
sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net/
open the music database. you should then be able to select the browse data option & choose the artist table to see what is actually in the database. just want to see if there is a reason for missing thumbs or not .

 

[jameson_uk]

OK, attached is a program (and source code) that will go through the artists in your music database and scrape last.fm for images. The code is terrible and badly written, this has just come out of me playing with some last.fm stuff for something else and is not really release code but will work.

It is so basic you need to type in the path to your MP music database and the folder in which thumbs are stored. It will then go through each artist in the database and any who do not have a thumb it will attempt to download a small and large thumb. I just did this and picked up something like 371 out of 383 artists. It will not overwrite any existing files so if you want to scrape from scratch you need to delete the existing ones.

I did notice a couple of cases where it did not handle the last.fm return codes (in fact it is so basic it is not even using the API so it could look at them...) You will need to just check the downloads afterward as things like Various Artists will get the red image of last.fm telling you to tag your music correctly.

I have a feeling this might not work if your artist tags have move the etc to the end (ie. The Beatles as been stored as Beatles, The) and there is probably some dubious unicode type issues lying around.

I hope this helps you so you can help me by getting he music screens setup in Maya

 

[joostzilla]

OK, attached is a program (and source code) that will go through the artists in your music database and scrape last.fm for images. The code is terrible and badly written, this has just come out of me playing with some last.fm stuff for something else and is not really release code but will work.

It is so basic you need to type in the path to your MP music database and the folder in which thumbs are stored. It will then go through each artist in the database and any who do not have a thumb it will attempt to download a small and large thumb. I just did this and picked up something like 371 out of 383 artists. It will not overwrite any existing files so if you want to scrape from scratch you need to delete the existing ones.

I did notice a couple of cases where it did not handle the last.fm return codes (in fact it is so basic it is not even using the API so it could look at them...) You will need to just check the downloads afterward as things like Various Artists will get the red image of last.fm telling you to tag your music correctly.

I have a feeling this might not work if your artist tags have move the etc to the end (ie. The Beatles as been stored as Beatles, The) and there is probably some dubious unicode type issues lying around.

I hope this helps you so you can help me by getting he music screens setup in Maya

Wow, this works like a charm. 116 out of 134. Thanks. Too bad the images are all different formats. Why Last fm does not have all images in the same size (square) is beyond me .
Now I have to modify all images myself. btw i have all artist previews in the Artist folder as folder.jpg. Is there a way to scrape these images and rename them to the artist folder name?

Where exactly can i help you with regarding to the music screens in Maya

 

[jameson_uk]

Wow, this works like a charm. 116 out of 134. Thanks. Too bad the images are all different formats. Why Last fm does not have all images in the same size (square) is beyond me .

Issue 159 - mamp2 - Images scaled in music browsing - Project Hosting on Google Code

Now I have to modify all images myself. btw i have all artist previews in the Artist folder as folder.jpg. Is there a way to scrape these images and rename them to the artist folder name?

Depending on your folder structure this would be fairly easy to do. Do you have music stored as something like

\artist\album

With the album artwork stored as folder.jpg in the album folder and a folder.jpg stored in the artist folder which you want used as the artist thumb in MP? If this is the case then a simple batch file copy should do the job. Let me know how your files are structured

Where exactly can i help you with regarding to the music screens in Maya

If you can make the nowplaying screen look as good as the mockup
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...ease-06-02-10-a-68747/index53.html#post576307
I will be a very happy man

 

[joostzilla]

My file structure is indeed as you described

Music/artist (cointaining folder.jpg)/album (also containing folder.jpg)

And yes, the plan is to make it as close to the mockup as possible with this skin engine

btw. thanks for your help

 

[jameson_uk]

My file structure is indeed as you described

Music/artist (cointaining folder.jpg)/album (also containing folder.jpg)

In that case this will do the job. Just copy and paste this into a text file, change the two directories to the right values and then save as a .vbs file. Double click that file and it will copy the files across. (only did a quick test but this should work). It will not overwrite any files

option explicit

dim objFSO, objFolder, objSubFolders, objArtistFolder
dim strArtistname, strFolderJPG, strThumbJPG


'==== change these values ===
const strMusicFolder ="c:\a"
const strThumbFolder ="c:\b"


set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set objFolder = objFSO.getfolder(strMusicFolder)
set objSubFolders = objFolder.SubFolders

for each objArtistFolder in objSubFolders
	strArtistName = objArtistFolder.Name
	strFolderJPG = objArtistFolder.path & "\folder.jpg"

	with objFSO 

	if .FileExists (strFolderJPG)  then
	
		'large thumbs
		strThumbJPG = strThumbFolder & "\" & strArtistName & "L.jpg"
		if not .FileExists (strThumbJPG) then .CopyFile strFolderJPG, strThumbJPG

		'small thumbs
		strThumbJPG = strThumbFolder & "\" & strArtistName & ".jpg"
		if not .FileExists (strThumbJPG) then .CopyFile strFolderJPG, strThumbJPG

	end if

	end with

next

set objArtistFolder = nothing
set objSubFolders = nothing
set objFolder = nothing
set objFSO = nothing

 

[joostzilla]

thanks for this... Only i receive an error message: see attachment.
Am i doing something wrong?



option explicit

dim objFSO, objFolder, objSubFolders, objArtistFolder
dim strArtistname, strFolderJPG, strThumbJPG


'==== change these values ===
const strMusicFolder ="L:\iTunes Music"
const strThumbFolder ="C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Thumbs\Music\Artists"


set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set objFolder = objFSO.getfolder(strMusicFolder)
set objSubFolders = objFolder.SubFolders

for each objArtistFolder in objSubFolders
strArtistName = objArtistFolder.Name
strFolderJPG = objArtistFolder.path & "\folder.jpg"

with objFSO

if .FileExists (strFolderJPG) then

'large thumbs
strThumbJPG = strThumbFolder & "\" & strArtistName & "L.jpg"
if not .FileExists (strThumbJPG) then .CopyFile strFolderJPG, strThumbJPG

'small thumbs
strThumbJPG = strThumbFolder & "\" & strArtistName & ".jpg"
if not .FileExists (strThumbJPG) then .CopyFile strFolderJPG, strThumbJPG

end if

end with

next

set objArtistFolder = nothing
set objSubFolders = nothing
set objFolder = nothing
set objFSO = nothing