Batch Art Finder 4.2 - Updated 03/07/2012

[trixmoto]

@gmachine24 - the best place for questions about this script is here. Can you please open the "BatchArtFinder.vbs" file in a text editor and find the line near the top which says "Dim Debug : Debug = False", then can you change "False" to "True" and try again? This should produce "BatchArtFinder.log" in your windows temporary directory with some more information which you can email me.

@ron1604 - you shouldn't need to but have you tried restarting MM? I cannot replicate this behaviour though.

@bxts - yes, if these values are set quite high then you might not get any results which match - this could cause a looping affect.

[ron1604]

I have tried restarting, which didn't help.
Some details about my setup and installation:
- running Vista, MM 3.0.7.1191
- when installing the script (latest version from your website) I had to run MM as administrator to get it installed
- then tried to search for cover art (still MM running as admin), but got a message to tell that I forgot to install the .exe.
- installed the exe (MM still running) and tried to search again. I got a message asking if I wanted to search for this 1 album (1 since I selected 1 dir with all albums in subdirs??). When choosing yes it did not find anything.
- Tried search again, instead of "yes" to confirm the search I choose to search for "all" albums. It worked. Cover art found for the directory containing all my Bee Gees albums in subdirs.
- I saved the art that I wanted, and I skipped 1 cover that did not match
- then moved to the next directory, containing my Bruce Springsteen albums in subdirs. Tried to search again, choose "all" again. Then it came up with the 1 cover that I skipped in the Bee Gees dir. No matter what I do, nothing helps, it keeps coming back with this cover. When choosing next and continuing the search for all albums that already have art, it even comes up with more Bee Gees. Still in the Bruce Springsteen dir.

I did try to change the max size in the vbs to 0, but it didn't make a difference. Also tried restarts of MM, no change. I also changed debug to true, but can't find a logfile anywhere. Pretty strange symptoms, it seems to cache something somewhere. You talk about temp dir, could it have to do with rights for the temp files maybe?? But where/which are those files?

[trixmoto]

If you select "All" it will process every single album in your library, so if the first one without artwork is Bee Gees then yes it will always find this one first. If you select "Yes" then it will process the selected tracks, not necessarily all tracks in the main window. I'm not sure what you mean by "forgot to install the .exe" though, there is no .exe. When you says "moved to the next directory" you actually need to select the tracks in the main window if you only want to search for these ones.

[ron1604]

thanks for your response. It makes things even more odd though

If you select "All" it will process every single album in your library, so if the first one without artwork is Bee Gees then yes it will always find this one first.

Ok, I understand this difference now. However... In the directory tree I select "all" within an artist directory (one of many artists). On the right I select some albums all of that artist. When choosing the option "all" when running the script it asks me for a different artist. So outside the directory I selected in the tree view.

If you select "Yes" then it will process the selected tracks, not necessarily all tracks in the main window. ...... When you says "moved to the next directory" you actually need to select the tracks in the main window if you only want to search for these ones.

So I have selected albums in the main window, however it never finds any album without art, while I am very sure there are albums without art (no jpg's in the dir, and all art tags empty).

I'm not sure what you mean by "forgot to install the .exe" though, there is no .exe.

When I first installed the mmip file it gave an error message, something missing if I recall correct. I figured I needed to install the other file (BatchArtFiner28.exe) so I also installed that. Then it worked. I'm quite curious how this related to your note there is no exe

[trixmoto]

Well "BatchArtFinder28.exe" is the MM2 installer and I assumed you were using MM3 and therefore the latest "BatchArtFinder30.mmip" file. If you're on MM3 I'd certainly recommend upgrading to 3.0 using the installation package.

[ron1604]

I actually had both installed. I just uninstalled 28, and reinstalled 30. Still same issues though.

[ron1604]

SOLVED!
It appeared there were two things happening:
- BatchArtFinder30.mmip did not install properly because the file was located on my samba share of my NAS. It's the first time I got an issue with this, and I use my NAS for months with no problems at all. But after I copied the file to the MM auto directory I could install it properly.
- Second issue had to do with the way I use MM. I select a directory in the tree on the left, by collapsing "my computer". Not all my files are also in the library! Apearently the script searches from the library and not the folder you browse. This resulted in the "weird" behaviour.

[trixmoto]

Yeah, it's not possible to have both installed as they would overwrite each other. And yes, it does search the library, it would take far too long to search your computer, that's why MM builds a library!

[gntucker]

I am running MM Gold v3.0.7 on Vista Home Premium SP1. When I install BatchArtFinder30.mmip I get a message "Error: Product installation error." However I see the script listed in the Options>Extensions, all the components listed in the install.ini are in the correct place, and I can execute the script. It appears to find the art correctly. When I check Save and click "Save checked images" I get another message "Error: Batch Art Finder - the MSInet component could not be found, please install before running this script." I have confirmed the file msinet.ocx is in C:\windows\system32.
Is this script compatible with Vista? Any suggestions as to a solution?

[trixmoto]

It definitely works on Vista because all I have is Vista! You may need to right-click on "Command" (cmd.exe) and select "Run as administrator" and then enter something along the lines of "regsvr32 C:\windows\system32\msinet.ocx" to register the component manually.

[gmachine24]

Hi - you asked that I email some information to you ... I sent it via PM as I didn't have your email address but didn't get a reply so I figured that was the wrong thing to do. Here is the information you requested:

[begin log file]

Batch Art Finder started...
(Selected albums)
AlbumID=2949
AlbumID=2948
AlbumID=2620
Total=3
***3004 - Write to file failed. (ADODB.Stream)
***N
***File '\\ERIKSHOST\SBD1 MUSIC DRIVE\alpha\All OF MP3\My Bloody Valentine\Isn't Anything (1988)\Isn't Anything.jpg' was missing.
***3004 - Write to file failed. (ADODB.Stream)
***N
***File '\\ERIKSHOST\SBD1 MUSIC DRIVE\alpha\All OF MP3\My Bloody Valentine\Loveless (1991)\Loveless.jpg' was missing.
***3004 - Write to file failed. (ADODB.Stream)
***N
***File '\\ERIKSHOST\SBD1 MUSIC DRIVE\alpha\Albums and Radio\My Chemical Romance\I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (2005)\I Brought You My Bullets, You.jpg' was missing.


[end log file]

Thanks. I really like your program - it will come in very handy once I get it to work.

[trixmoto]

I remember putting in this specific error messaging for someone but they never got back to me about it. The "N" indicates that the file doesn't exist which confirms the "3004" which means that it couldn't be written. In this case because it is a UNC path I'm guessing that the script does not have write permission to that folder, assuming that it exists. If you're on Vista you should make sure that MM is "run[ning] as administrator" and maybe try mapping a drive to the base directory as well.

[Lion]

Hello,
first off all, i have to thank trixmoto for his great work.
There are many scrips i find really useful.
But with this one, i have a problem: I select "Dowload file" OR "Save as Link".
I want to save the image into the album of the songs. But it is always downloadet in ONE directory (for me the root), and not in the folder of the album.
What am i doing wrong?

[gmachine24]

I remember putting in this specific error messaging for someone but they never got back to me about it. The "N" indicates that the file doesn't exist which confirms the "3004" which means that it couldn't be written. In this case because it is a UNC path I'm guessing that the script does not have write permission to that folder, assuming that it exists. If you're on Vista you should make sure that MM is "run[ning] as administrator" and maybe try mapping a drive to the base directory as well.

Hi. I should have told you:

1. - The music is on a hard drive on a computer that runs Ubuntu-Linux - I enabled universal read/write/execute on the drive and its folders when I built the server and I just drag-and-drop music from my other computers, including Windows XP machines, to the folders on the drive I set up on that Ubuntu computer to store my music.

I have run MM from administrator, and regularly. The hard drive in question is also mapped to this Windows XP box with MM loaded - It doesn't matter. Also, I had checked the Microsoft Web site re: the ADODB:Stream error message and there was an indication that ADODB might be disabled for security reasons - but I checked it on this Windows XP computer and it's enabled.

If you think of anything else please let me know - it's getting to the point where it doesn't matter so much any more as I have been manually adding cover art during all the time I have tried to get the script to work - I'm not sure how far along I am but at least half way I think.

Thanks.

[trixmoto]

@Lion - try including <path> in the file mask.

@gmachine24 - sorry, I really don't have any ideas.