Batch Album Art Lookup From Amazon

sunspot · Post by **sunspot** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:06 pm

The album art lookup off Amazon seems to function pretty well on a per-album basis, but it would be great if MediaMonkey could do an automatic album art lookup for the entire library, the way iTunes can.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:03 pm

http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10435

sunspot · Post by **sunspot** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:44 pm

Looks promising, but it works off of a Google search, not off of Amazon. I'd rather go with Amazon if possible - their album art is pretty consistently of good quality.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:22 am

This script will shortly (if I can find time) allow you to choose the source of iTunes store instead, and maybe Amazon as well.

sunspot · Post by **sunspot** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:44 pm

trixmoto wrote:This script will shortly (if I can find time) allow you to choose the source of iTunes store instead, and maybe Amazon as well.

That would be even cooler! Thanks, trixmoto.

trence · Post by **trence** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:39 pm

That would be awesome. I get mixed results with Google.

Post by **Lowlander** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:09 am

Ps. The Google Art script already does iTunes lookup albeit this is a manual per album process.

301.20 · Post by **301.20** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:17 pm

Trixmoto,

I have the same type of problem. I have partially loaded 200 gb's of my music colletion into MP3 format. I'm running the collection wirelessly over Netgear's MP 101 music servers. Is there some way to tweak this script to go in and do a batch update from Amazon.com of the album name?

Netgear is like the Creative Zen, without the album artist in the first slot, it's supper messy.

can the script be tweaked to grab the album name from Amazon and to poplate in the album field, so

With The Beatles
A Hard Days Night

Becomes

The Beatles - A Hard Days Night
The Beatles - With the Beatles

Changing 1800+ albums one album at a time is killing me. Being able to do this via batch (to lock the album name and append the album artist to the front of the string in the album tag field) would make me one happy monkey!

Help?

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:18 am

I will add Amazon as an artwork source if I can, but the album name changing is really a different script, because this script does not read any data other than images at the moment.

301.20 · Post by **301.20** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:48 am

Hey Trixmoto, thank you for replying.

Are these VB scripts? I think I know just enough VB to be really dangerous...if this is VB do you think your album art script would be a good shell for me to start trying to tweak the code to do what I want...am I just barking up the wrong tree?

Do you have any suggestions to help me get on the way? I really do appreciate any comments or suggestions you can throw my way!

Post by **Lowlander** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:03 pm

Most MediaMonkey scripts are written in VBScripts. The place to start is the Scripts and Components forum and the Developer page on the MediaMonkey homepage which contains a downloadable help.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:17 pm

My BatchArtFinder script is probably a fairly good place to start, but it's a little complex. Possibly more complex than it needs to be so you might find a better way of doing it if you start from scratch. You are certainly welcome to use my script as a base if you wish to.