Album Art Tagger 5.1 - Updated 23/10/2012

[trixmoto]

I think you're after process 1 with a mask of "<path>\<type>". It doesn't cope with multiple of the same type I don't think.

[danasince1979]

Thanks but that only works for the first piece of artwork though. I would still have to go through every album to determine which has leaflet pages or alternative covers and then move them one by one to the top and save and then repeat for each one after that. I might have a couple hundred albums with multiple artwork and they are mixed into 3000 total albums which is why I was hoping the script could do all that work for me.

I found this external program: http://dalepreston.com/Blog/2009/07/id3-album-art-extractor.html that has the ability to extract all images from all files but this gives you duplicates for every track in the album. i just need to extract all images from the first file can you help me out with an update to your script trix?

[trixmoto]

Ah right, I see. Try... "<path>\<type><*>"

[danasince1979]

YES!!!! That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks so much....

the asterisks mask was exactly what I was looking for but didn't realize what that did. what is the description for that mask?

[trixmoto]

Well it was originally designed to allow you to embed all images in a folder, but then I realised it could be use to extract all the images as well. For process one putting "<*>" anywhere in the mask tells the script to extract all the images, but it is not used in the filename of the images at all.

[danasince1979]

well that's freakin genius thanks again man.

[HELOX]

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[crw]

Hello,
I am new to this forum and MediaMonkey so please forgive any "Forum faux pas".
However I need assistance.

I have a fairly large number of tracks that have Album Art both in the tag and linked to the respective .jpg file:
Template: D:\Music\<Album Artist>\<Album>\<Album>.jpg
Example: D:\Music\Aaron Neville\Warm Your Heart\Warm Your Heart.jpg
First: I had selected the option to save the image to tag and to the album folder, resulting in two entries in every track's "Album Art" tab: 1) Art Stored in Tag, and 2) A link to the artwork. However, this will result in broken links as soon as it is off my system (as you know), and therefore not very clean work. Second: I would like to have an identical copy of the <Album>.jpg named "Folder.jpg" in each directory as well, again not linked.

Can you / your program help me to:
1. Eliminate the links to Artwork while leaving the Artwork intact in their respective folders? How? (Leaving the existing artwork tag in place)
2. Copy each existing album artwork [<Album>.jpg] to "Folder.jpg", resulting in two image files per album?

This is a fairly large collection. Currently 68,605 tracks, 379.6 GB. With an additional 410GB of music yet to be integrated.
I hope you can understand the need for batch or automated processing whenever and wherever possible.
I appreciate any and all advice or help you can provide.

Thank You,
CRW

[trixmoto]

1) Yes, I believe you want to run process 5, selecting "Stored in tag" and de-selecting the option to delete the file.

2) Yes, you want to run process 1, specifying the new path.

I think you'll want to do 2 before 1 though, or maybe 1 then 2 then 1, as 2 will create new links which you'll want to remove.

[crw]

Thank you for your swift reply, it is much appreciated.
I will install and follow your recommendations.

Regards,
CRW

[ajdedo]

Hi. In each album folder I have between 1 and 7 jpegs. They would be named "folder", "back", "insert", "insert 2", "insert 3" etc...

I figured out that "folder" can be inserted as the first image by choosing "Front Cover" and using -> "<path>\folder"
Then "back" can be inserted as the second image by choosing "Back Cover" and using -> "<path>\back"

Now I'm wonder if I can embed the rest of the 3+ images all at once by choosing "Leaflet Page" and using ->

<path>\insert*
or
<path>\insert?
or
<path>\insert<*>

or something else similar?

thanks.

[trixmoto]

You can use "<path>\<*>" to process all images in the folder, but you can't only process the ones that begin with "insert".

[ajdedo]

Thanks. 1 more question....

If my tag already contains an image, and I add a second image, will the new image be added in second place after the first, or will it replace the first image? (with the first then being moved to second place?)

[trixmoto]

It will always be added to the end, unless you tick the option to add it to the beginning.

[Kraxel]

Hi,

I am looking for solution to make the front cover always the first cover in MM.

The problem is, that in a lot of cases my front cover is not the first picture in MM. Now I want to move the image to the first position but without deleting the other coverimages from MM. All images are linked. The reason why I do not want to delete is all my descpriptons would be lost.