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<blockquote data-quote="jameson_uk" data-source="post: 593915" data-attributes="member: 11220">OK, attached is a program (and source code) that will go through the artists in your music database and scrape last.fm for images.&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; I just did this and picked up something like 371 out of 383 artists.&nbsp; 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...)&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="jameson_uk, post: 593915, member: 11220"] 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 :D [/QUOTE]

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