How to use the new art and lyrics features?

by **nohitter151** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 8:47 am

Darryl_Gittins wrote:Thanks Lowlander, but how can Album Art Tagger do this? A script that can fix all of the tracks in a collection that have bad link\pointers to non-existing images must first find\identify all the tracks that have bad link\pointers to non-existing images before it can remove the bad links. That's the tricky bit - actually creating a list of tracks that have bad link\pointers to non-existing images. As far as I can tell, you have to manually find them one album at a time and then either manually remove the bad links. At that point, you could use Album Art Tagger to remove the links, but that doesn't actually save any time. Either way, the time consuming aspect is finding\listing the tracks with bad links. If there was a way to list all the tracks in one go, then you could clean them in one go (manually or with Album Art Tagger), and then let the automatic tagger update the art as it plays them. Can Album Art Tagger find\identify all the tracks that have bad link\pointers to non-existing images?

Why do you have to identify them? Just run the script on all your files. If there is some tracks without bad links, there will be nothing to remove.

That being said, the "Tagging inconsistencies" addon can easily identify all tracks with bad album art links.

by **Lowlander** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 12:34 pm

Ask questions about the operation of an Addon in the Addons own thread. It's my understanding you just use it on all files and use the preset to remove the non-existent Artwork.

by **Darryl_Gittins** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:45 pm

Thanks Lowlander, but how can Album Art Tagger do this? A script that can fix all of the tracks in a collection that have bad link\pointers to non-existing images must first find\identify all the tracks that have bad link\pointers to non-existing images before it can remove the bad links. That's the tricky bit - actually creating a list of tracks that have bad link\pointers to non-existing images. As far as I can tell, you have to manually find them one album at a time and then either manually remove the bad links. At that point, you could use Album Art Tagger to remove the links, but that doesn't actually save any time. Either way, the time consuming aspect is finding\listing the tracks with bad links. If there was a way to list all the tracks in one go, then you could clean them in one go (manually or with Album Art Tagger), and then let the automatic tagger update the art as it plays them. Can Album Art Tagger find\identify all the tracks that have bad link\pointers to non-existing images?

by **Lowlander** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 7:46 pm

Album Art Tagger can remove these images from the files (database): http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... art+tagger

by **Darryl_Gittins** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 7:01 pm

I think part of the problem is that a lot of tracks point to some an invalid image file so the art is not updated. For example, for a track that does not have art, I open the artwork tab, and I see one or more generic images that look like a faded blue record with a music symbol. Image here:

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=7 ... oto%2c.jpg

If I manually delete each of those, then the Art is updated. It looks like this is discussed here, and from what I can tell there is no easy way to reset all of those bad links in one operation. It has to be done manually for each album.

http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=5538
"If you move, delete or rename an existing linked Album Art in an external application, e.g. explorer, and then rescan the Album to refresh what you have changed, the internal reference to the image in the Covers table is not removed. MM is still trying to display the image in all various views but fails since it doesn't exist. You need to remove it manually."

by **jason_a69** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 2:39 am

Darryl_Gittins wrote:It's going slowly, Jason. One hiccup is that when MM plays a song and automatically tags it with art, it only tags the one song instead of all the songs on the album. It'd be great if we could change that so that all songs on the album are tagged at the same time.

Hint hint!

Did you cut and paste all the tracks of an album into the new playlist? It will just run through them sequentially and correct the tags if you did.

Unless I am missing something....

by **Darryl_Gittins** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 12:42 pm

It's going slowly, Jason. One hiccup is that when MM plays a song and automatically tags it with art, it only tags the one song instead of all the songs on the album. It'd be great if we could change that so that all songs on the album are tagged at the same time.

Hint hint!

by **jason_a69** » Mon Feb 17, 2014 11:45 pm

Darryl_Gittins wrote:Awesome tip, Jason! I was looking for a way to do just this! Running it now.

No problem, how did you get on? Mine is still running, I had to do some manual adjustments here and there, especially with some of the compilations I have.

by **rrfpacker** » Sun Feb 16, 2014 9:24 pm

I was lost too and then one day while getting Album Art my old normal way by clicking on the "Get Album Art and Properties" icon, I noticed the new Lyrics checkbox. I just checked it and now I get art and/or lyrics by highlighting tracks and clicking the icon. Has worked great.

by **Darryl_Gittins** » Sun Feb 16, 2014 7:54 pm

Awesome tip, Jason! I was looking for a way to do just this! Running it now.

by **jason_a69** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 9:11 am

nohitter151 wrote:
jason_a69 wrote:
Lowlander wrote:Yes, or leave Art & Details on the Now Playing tab and it will do it automatically for playing tracks.
Sorry, can you explain that bit a bit further? I cannot get it going. I have set the view mode to "Show art with details" and it is not populating the metadata when I am play a track.
Wrong place.

View -> "Art & Details" (checked)

In "Art & Details" panel, right-click -> "Choose fields". Check box for "Lyrics" (and any other fields you want to see)

At Options > Metadata lookup, check all the boxes.

Thanks for that, that works great, just make sure the "now playing" tab is selected on the right, not the "Selected".

I had an idea which was to play all my songs and have the metadata updated but that would take far too long so I downloaded the "song previewer" script from here
http://mediamonkey.wikispaces.com/scripts

I then selected all the songs that did not have any artwork from
"Music / Files to Edit / Unknown artwork" on the left and pasted those songs into a new playlist.

I set up Song previewer ("Play / Song previewer...." tab at the top of the screen) to play the first 25 seconds of a song (anything less and MM crashes) and selected the playlist I just created. It is now running through all the songs in the playlist and populating the metadata.

Saving me an awful lot of work; I can review what it has done when it has finished.

by **nohitter151** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 11:47 pm

jason_a69 wrote:
Lowlander wrote:Yes, or leave Art & Details on the Now Playing tab and it will do it automatically for playing tracks.
Sorry, can you explain that bit a bit further? I cannot get it going. I have set the view mode to "Show art with details" and it is not populating the metadata when I am play a track.

Wrong place.

View -> "Art & Details" (checked)

In "Art & Details" panel, right-click -> "Choose fields". Check box for "Lyrics" (and any other fields you want to see)

At Options > Metadata lookup, check all the boxes.

by **jason_a69** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 11:11 pm

Lowlander wrote:Yes, or leave Art & Details on the Now Playing tab and it will do it automatically for playing tracks.

Sorry, can you explain that bit a bit further? I cannot get it going. I have set the view mode to "Show art with details" and it is not populating the metadata when I am play a track.

by **Darryl_Gittins** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 4:36 pm

Congratulation. These are awesome additions to an awesome program!!

by **Lowlander** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 11:36 am

Yes, or leave Art & Details on the Now Playing tab and it will do it automatically for playing tracks. If you're looking for batch editing try an Addon: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... ip#p316877

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