Batch Artist Art Finder - Does it exist?

[Superdude]

I have the following Setup:
C:\MP3\Genre\Artist\Album\# - Title

Is there a media monkey script that will search google images or other sites such as HTbackdrops for the Band/Artist Pics and place them in the Artist node as folder.jpg or artist.jpg?
I was hoping to find something like the Batch Art Finder but for Artists.

Thanks!
John

[nynaevelan]

I too would like to see something like this.

[trixmoto]

This would certainly be possible, but as far as I'm aware it doesn't currently exist. Last.Fm also has images within it's artist information web service, so this is another potential source.

[Superdude]

I should have elaborated on why this would be a good feature to add:

1) It would allow people to have a folder thumb of the artist. Sometimes a visual is easier to spot than an actual name in windows.
2) I run xbmc which has a library function. However, I have over 400 gigs of music I converted from cds. This is killing my xbox. Since it supports folder thumbs, this would work as a nice workaround.
3) This can open up media monkey to have backdrops of the artist when playing songs. It would look really nice.

HTbackdrops has the nicest backdrops. It might be too big for thumbs.
Google Images - Good source but you have to always look through everything
Discogs? - Might be potential here.

[Owyn]

I took a quick look at HTbackdrops. Their thumbnails are 100x56.

[lf0]

Some time ago I hacked together a little python script to do the job (disclaimer: it was just a couple of minutes work so no warranty ) that gets pictures from last.fm and writes them to Artist/folder.jpg.


Save as getartist.py


You need to install Python 2.6 and the Python Imaging Library (PIL).
You also need to fetch pylast.py. Put the pylast.py in the same folder as getartist.py (or install pylast properly) and tweak getartist.py as you like (in particular START_DIR when you don't run it from your root music folder).

You should also change the API_KEY (get your own one) but it should work as it is.

It uses last.fm to fetch the artist images and you need to have your music stored as START_DIR/Genre/Artist/.
I apply a stupid heuristic to make the image quadratic (just use the maximum square in the center) and scales it down (or up) to 500x500 px.

Maybe it's useful for you - it did the job for me.

[fizzjob]

I tried running that python script, but I get "tuple indices must be integers, not str" for each artist. I don't really know enough about python to effectively troubleshoot that...any ideas?

[lf0]

I tried running that python script, but I get "tuple indices must be integers, not str" for each artist. I don't really know enough about python to effectively troubleshoot that...any ideas?

If you could provide the line number in which the error occurred and maybe your directory layout (or what you "tweaked") I might be able to fix it.

[fizzjob]

I tried running that python script, but I get "tuple indices must be integers, not str" for each artist. I don't really know enough about python to effectively troubleshoot that...any ideas?

If you could provide the line number in which the error occurred and maybe your directory layout (or what you "tweaked") I might be able to fix it.

My directory layout is pretty simple:

D:\unsorted\country\artist\album

All I've changed aside from the API key:

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START_DIR = "." # Directory to start scanning
USE_GENRE = False # When True look for START_DIR/Genre/Artist otherwise just use START_DIR/Artist
WRITE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY = False # Write extra PNG file and create .directory file
JPG_FILENAME = "artist.jpg"
PNG_FILENAME = "artist.png"

and the output is like so:

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D:\unsorted\country>c:\Python26\python.exe getartist.py
Frankie Laine... could not convert image
tuple indices must be integers, not str
Hank Williams... could not convert image
tuple indices must be integers, not str
Johnny Cash... could not convert image
tuple indices must be integers, not str
Johnny Horton... could not convert image
tuple indices must be integers, not str
pylast-read-only... could not convert image
Invalid artist name supplied
Willie Nelson... could not convert image
tuple indices must be integers, not str

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 could not convert image
tuple indices must be integers, not str
Hank Williams... could not convert image
tuple indices must be integers, not str
Johnny Cash... could not convert image
tuple indices must be integers, not str
Johnny Horton... could not convert image
tuple indices must be integers, not str
pylast-read-only... could not convert image
Invalid artist name supplied
Willie Nelson... could not convert image
tuple indices must be integers, not str
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I don't see what line number is having the trouble, specifically.

[lf0]

I should have tested it with Python 2.6 when recommending to install it
Problem was, that the pylast.py I use has a different behavior under Python 2.6 as it seems.

Updated getartist.py

Hopefully this will work now.

[nynaevelan]

How do you run this??

[fizzjob]

I should have tested it with Python 2.6 when recommending to install it
Problem was, that the pylast.py I use has a different behavior under Python 2.6 as it seems.

Updated getartist.py

Hopefully this will work now.

That did it, thanks!

[fizzjob]

How do you run this??

Assuming you've installed python and the other dependencies (see lf0's first post in this thread about that), just run...

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python.exe getartist.py

...in a command prompt. You may need to specify the path to where python.exe is ("c:\python26\python.exe getartist.py").

[nynaevelan]

Thanks I will try that but since I was able to use Helium to download the artist pics I may not need to use this one, but thanks again.

[fizzjob]

When I was running this, I noticed it failed on anything that ended in a trailing "The". I modified the code a bit (my first attempt at digging into Python), and it seems to work. I set it to work with a structure of StartDir/Artist/Album, which is different from how lf0 has it.

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#!/usr/bin/python
# Very basic python script to fetch artist images from last.fm
# - You need PIL from http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil
# - You need pylast from http://code.google.com/p/pylast/
#   or just http://pylast.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pylast.py

from httplib import InvalidURL
from os import listdir
from os import path
from os import stat
from stat import ST_MODE
from stat import S_ISDIR
from sys import stdout, version_info
from urllib2 import HTTPError
from urllib2 import Request
from urllib2 import URLError
from urllib2 import urlopen

from ImageFile import Parser
from PIL import Image
from pylast import Artist
from pylast import get_lastfm_network

# basic tweaks
START_DIR = "." # Directory to start scanning
USE_GENRE = False # When True look for START_DIR/Genre/Artist otherwise just use START_DIR/Artist
WRITE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY = False # Write extra PNG file and create .directory file
JPG_FILENAME = "artist.jpg"
PNG_FILENAME = "artist.png"

# You have to have your own unique two values for API_KEY and API_SECRET
# Obtain yours from http://www.last.fm/api/account for Last.fm
API_KEY = "1caaaecb5f85df41359680c0b95191af" # this is a sample key
API_SECRET = "c3f6a6e65a796e813b6c9a2c91e85d79"

def fetch_image(url):
    """
    Retrieve a image given by the url.
    """
    tries = 0
    if not url.startswith('http://'):
        return None
    while True:
        try:
            request = Request(url)
            reply = urlopen(request)
            p = Parser()
            while 1:
                s = reply.read(1024)
                if not s:
                    break
                p.feed(s)
            im = p.close()
            return im
        except (URLError, HTTPError, InvalidURL), e:
            tries += 1
            if tries >= 3:
                print 'error while fetching: %s (%s)' % (url, e)
                return None
        finally:
            if 'reply' in locals():
                reply.close()

def get_image(artistName):
    artist = Artist(artistName, get_lastfm_network(API_KEY, API_SECRET))
    image_list = artist.get_images(limit=1)
    if version_info[1] >= 6 and version_info[0] < 3:
        url = image_list[0].sizes.original
    else:
        url = image_list[0]["sizes"]["original"]
    return fetch_image(url)

def write_directory(dir):
    file = open(path.join(dir, ".directory"), "w")
    file.write("[Desktop Entry]\n")
    file.write("Icon=./%s\n" % PNG_FILENAME)
    file.close()

def save_image(prefix, artistName, size=500):
    if artistName.endswith(", The"):
       idx = artistName.find(", The")
       artistName2 = "The " + artistName[0:idx]
    else:
       artistName2 = artistName
    print "%s.." % artistName2,
    directory = path.join(prefix, artistName)
    jpgFile = path.join(directory, JPG_FILENAME)
    pngFile = path.join(directory, PNG_FILENAME)
    if path.exists(jpgFile) or (WRITE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY and path.exists(pngFile)):
        print "image exists"
        return
    stdout.flush()
    try:
        image = get_image(artistName2)
        (w, h) = image.size
        # crop only the center of the image
        if (w > h):
            result = image.crop(((w-h) / 2, 0, (w + h) / 2, h))
        else:
            result = image.crop((0, (h-w) / 2, w, (w + h) / 2))
        if result.mode != "RGB":
            result = result.convert("RGB")
        result = result.resize((size, size), Image.BICUBIC)
        result.save(jpgFile, "JPEG")
        if WRITE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY:
            result.save(pngFile, "PNG")
            write_directory(directory)
        print "ok"
    except (IOError), e:
        print "could not save image"
        print e
    except (Exception), e:
        print "could not convert image"
        print e

def walk_artists(dir):
    dirList = listdir(dir)
    for artistName in dirList:
        artistDir = path.join(dir, artistName)
        mode = stat(artistDir)[ST_MODE]
        if S_ISDIR(mode):
            save_image(dir, artistName.decode('utf-8'))

def walk_genres(dir):
    dirList = listdir(dir)
    for genreName in dirList:
        genreDir = path.join(dir, genreName)
        mode = stat(genreName)[ST_MODE]
        if S_ISDIR(mode):
            walk_artists(genreDir)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if USE_GENRE:
        walk_genres(START_DIR)
    else:
        walk_artists(START_DIR)