way to sort by album art dimension?

Gar · Post by **Gar** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:58 am

I'd like to sort by art dimensions. That way, I can edit the ones that have tiny album art and put it better images.

Any ideas on how to do this?

--Gar

Hooah · Post by **Hooah** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:05 am

Thats a good idea. I am sure some of my album art is not up to standards. I would love to have a script where I could sort them on quality.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:04 am

Good idea - I'll put it on my to do list!

Question though; what if there is multiple artwork? Calculate the average size? Maybe use the min or max size instead?

MCSmarties · Post by **MCSmarties** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:27 pm

If you are using external album files you don't need media monkey for this task.
Windows Explorer will automatically show a column with the image size in pixels for all "image" files.
Just choose the "detail" display mode and right-click on a column header to add a column for "dimensions".

paulmt · Post by **paulmt** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:23 pm

I think a script to reveal the size of the 'Cover (front)" embedded image would be very helpful in locating undersize images that display poorly.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:22 am

I've tried this and not got anything useable. I can calculate the sizes, but it's slow, painfully slow. Especially if you then try to sort them. I was saving a value in one of the custom fields so that you could sort them in MM, but because it is sorted alphabetically not numerically you have to add leading zeros...

Bex · Post by **Bex** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:18 am

To sort a text field numerically, try this:
Order By Val(Customfield)

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:29 am

I meant when you click on the custom field name in the main window, MM sorts the field alphabetically.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:30 am

Ok, I've got something working. Do people want the size to be based on the minimum, maximum, average or other (please specify) image size?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:15 pm

> Do people want the size to be based on the minimum, maximum, average or other (please specify) image size?

Well, the problem I want to solve, and looks like others, too, is to find the cover art that's small and blurry so I can replace them with better images.

The question you're asking, I think, is what to do when songs have multiple images?

If the script just handled "front cover" images, that would probably help most of us. Maybe it could be a parameter in the script to pick which image type.

After that, maybe min, max, and average could also be selectable (by comment/uncomment) in the script. If I had to choose, I would prefer min because it would allow me to remove small images, even if there are multiple images.

BTW, how are you calculating image size? I don't think we want just physical byte size because then an image with large dimensions, but heavy compression, could appear small. I suggest image dimensions, or, to boil it down to a single number for sorting, number of pixels (height*width).

Thanks for you efforts!
--Gar

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:35 am

The trouble is, you can have multiple front covers! The script is almost ready for release, I'm just creating a form so people don't have to edit the script to change the parameters. It does calculate size by width*height, and there is the option of min/max/average/total/first. The first image is the one which is displayed in the album art pane, so I figured this would be an important one.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:01 am

Ok, this script is now available here: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12042

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:02 pm

Hah! That's great! Works perfectly!

Thanks, trixmoto.

--Gary

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:19 am

Glad you like!

paulmt · Post by **paulmt** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:19 pm

Thanks Trixmoto, I like it and it is working well for me.
I like the fact that it uses one of the custom fields (now named "art size") as I can review this easily along with other data as I am playing songs in my db.