Album Art Tagger 5.1 - Updated 23/10/2012

[trixmoto]

"Remove Linked Artwork" would be simpler, but then I'd also need a "Remove Embedded Artwork" option. I'm glad you figured it out though.

Thanks MetalThrasher and sorry for the annoyance

[loondawg]

Another awesome script. Thanks.

One suggestion: Could you add code so it would handle read-only files? I was using this to process thousands of files and it kept being interrupted on RO files. A simple dialog-box that asked if you wanted to change them or skip them would be a really nice addition.


Even without this, it is a great script. It saved me an incredible amount of time. So thanks again for your great work.

[trixmoto]

Can you send me a screenshot of the message you are getting for read-only files? It's not my script doing this, but if I can suppress the message then I will.

[loondawg]

Sorry for the long delay. This is the error text.

Error #70 - Microsoft VBScript runtime error.
Permission denied
File: 'C:\Program Files\MediaMonkey\Scripts\AlbumArtTagger.vbs", Line:1117, Column 10

That is followed by:

Error happened during script execution:
Permission denied

To recreate the problem, save the artwork to the folder. Use file properties to mark folder.jpg as read only. Then use tagger setting "11 Embed artwork" with the setting "Delete Image File" selected. You should get the error when it tries to delete folder.jpg.

[trixmoto]

I can get the script to handle this error better, but obviously the permission will also be denied.

[Onweerwolf]

This is an excellent script and a great way to use as a workaround when using CD Art Display. CAD is, as of yet, still unable to read artwork from .flac files so i'm using this script to set up an alternative location with extracted artwork for CAD to look when it can't find artwork normally. Works great.

I was wondering though, is it possible to automate one of the processes in a batch file (or similar) so I can run automatic updates as part of my scheduled maintenance sessions?

[trixmoto]

Thanks, I'm glad you've found it useful. What do you mean by automate?

[Onweerwolf]

Well basically this: I have a main script that I use when I shutoff my system. What it does is launch other scripts that do a number of things, like cleaning cache and temp files, making backups of important data and assorted things and then finally shut down the system when the other scripts are finished with their work. What I would like is to have it also launch a script that opens MM, runs Album Art Tagger and extract artwork for files that have been newly added or modified in the last x number of days.

[loondawg]

I can get the script to handle this error better, but obviously the permission will also be denied.

Thanks Trixmoto. Like I said, it's not a big deal at all. Your scripts have been an incredible help and little issues like this are, well, little issues.

Mine was probably a fairly uncommon situation as the artwork really shouldn't have been read-only via file attributes. The only reason I mentioned the issue was because I had started the script and left it alone to run. And when I came back hours later, I found it had failed early in the process. If it just blows by read-only files, that would be great. Even better would be if it could throw up a list of files that failed at then end. But again, even with no changes this is a great script. Thanks again for your great work.

[trixmoto]

@Onweerwolf - Hmmm, that sounds pretty complex. I mean in scripting terms it should be possible, but I don't know how I would configure that into this script. Would you always want this to happen every time you run MM, or just when you launch it from this script?

@loondawg - Thank you, I'm glad you've found them useful. I'll see what I can do in the next version.

[Onweerwolf]

When I launch the script. The idea is to have everything updated each day just before I shut down my system for the night.

[trixmoto]

I'm not sure how you'd know, once inside MM, that it was started up by a script?

[Nytmar3]

My music is organized as follows

C:\my music\artist\album\songs

I have used extract from tag to mask Using <path>\folder to make sure all my albums have a folder.jpg

My next goal is to make sure all my artist folders have a folder.jpg

I have way to much music to do this manually so I just wanted to extract album art to the artist folder as folder.jpg

What mask should I use to do this? Is there a <path> up one directory mask or something similar I could do?

Thanks is advance!

[gpzbc]

My music is organized as follows
C:\my music\artist\album\songs
I have used extract from tag to mask Using <path>\folder to make sure all my albums have a folder.jpg. My next goal is to make sure all my artist folders have a folder.jpg I have way to much music to do this manually so I just wanted to extract album art to the artist folder as folder.jpg. What mask should I use to do this? Is there a <path> up one directory mask or something similar I could do?
Thanks is advance!

I am curious, if an artist has several albums, which folder.jpg do you want extracted to the artist folder?

[Guest]

My music is organized as follows
C:\my music\artist\album\songs
I have used extract from tag to mask Using <path>\folder to make sure all my albums have a folder.jpg. My next goal is to make sure all my artist folders have a folder.jpg I have way to much music to do this manually so I just wanted to extract album art to the artist folder as folder.jpg. What mask should I use to do this? Is there a <path> up one directory mask or something similar I could do?
Thanks is advance!

I am curious, if an artist has several albums, which folder.jpg do you want extracted to the artist folder?

Any. Just something to represent the artists. First album, last album, last album, doesn't matter. Just want any album art extracted to have some sort of folder.jpg representing my artists...