Album Art Manager

Nice add-on but it would be great to implement a function to show the cover^^

it would be great if you could display the cover, maybe in the “Service Pane Bottom” because the idea of your ad don is nice but to display the cover in songbird would be nicer^^

Hey there, you might want to rename this album art extension to maybe displays album art… cause i was confused when I saw this one and your add on that allows you to get a cover off the amazon site sharing the same name… Thanks for both of these… they will come in handy!

thanks that’s what I meant.

But it seems to doesn’t work right now. Because it got the same name as your other add-on the old add-on get overwritten.
and I can’t display the add-on in the Service Pane

Big Thanks.

But I think calling “Now Playing” is not really good because “Now Playing List” uses the same name in songbird, i think this could leads to conflicts.
But thanks for developing :=).

Nice work Stevo!

I don’t have the option to display “Now Playing” in any service pane. Using 0.4rc2 on WinXP. I used to have both this and the conflicting Now Playing List add-on, but I uninstalled both, reinstalled this, and it still doesn’t show up as an option in the service pane.

Where does this take the album art from, and where does it store it? In the file’s tag? As folder.jpg?

Also, I have a single folder full of all my album art, with the artists and album titles in the filenames. It’d be nice to be able to specify a default folder to look in for album art, matching artists and album titles in the filenames.

Thanks for working on this vital component.

Same here under Linux, there is no “Now Playing” option.

It looks like nice, but it doesn’t work with files from usb-storage devices. it would be nice!

It doesn’t work with Win XP and Songbird 0.4. The add-on doesn’t appear in the display menu.

That’s a shame, this add-on looks great. I hope that it’ll be fixed very soon.

im sad about this but it doesnt work with SB 0.4, WinXP SP2
i used version 0.7 and the service pane and the manager doesnt work. i hope the addon will work after some fixes
greetz ALU

The extension doesn’t work for me on WINXP SP2, Songbird 0.4 and Album Art Manager 0.7.

Nothing appears in the View menu and when I click on Album Art Manager in the tools menu, a window appears with “Covers” written in it but nothing else.

In my error console, I have 2 things that seems to be related to your add-on:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception… “Invalid ClassID or ContractID” nsresult: “0x80570017 (NSERRORXPCBADCID)” location: “JS frame :: file:///D:/Sauvegardes/Songbird/extensions/AlbumArtManager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js :: :: line 11” data: no]
Failed to load XPCOM component: D:SauvegardesSongbirdextensionsAlbumArtManager@songbirdnest.comcomponentssbAlbumArtService.js

I hope you’ll manage to fix this.

Hello Stevo
here is my errorlog
the first:
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Warning: reference to undefined property Components.classes[‘@songbirdnest.com/songbird-album-art-service;1’]
Source File: chrome://albumartmanager/content/albumartmanager.js
Line: 101
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and the second

————————————————————————————————————————————————————————–
Error: Components.classes[‘@songbirdnest.com/songbird-album-art-service;1’] is undefined
Source File: chrome://albumartmanager/content/albumartmanager.js
Line: 101
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i hope this is useful ;)
I thank you for your hard work on this addon
regards ALU

Hello,

same for me with Ubuntu 7.10 and 0.4rc2
Furthermore I am not able to add Covers.

Here my error log

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception… “Invalid ClassID or ContractID” nsresult: “0x80570017 (NSERRORXPCBADCID)” location: “JS frame :: file:///home/xxx/.songbird1/aj1n9089.default/extensions/AlbumArtManager @songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js :: :: line 11” data: no]

and Failed to load XPCOM component: /home/xxx/.songbird1/aj1n9089.default/extensions/AlbumArtManager @songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js

Thank you. Version 0.8 works on Mac OS X now.

Before, I forgot that this addon shares the same name with Now Playing List, so I couldn’t figure out how to get the pane to show. But it turns out that I just have to click on “Now Playing” again to show this instead of the list extension.

Great, version 0.8 works on WinXP.

I think that you could improve some things:

• the track notification is written in dark gray and the background is in light gray : it’s not easy to read. You should use other colors to improve the contrast.
• the information of the track being played displayed under the cover in the service pane are written in black on a dark gray background, it is really difficult to read. Furthermore, he font is too big.

Otherwise, this is a great extension, thank you very much.

very nice work stevo !
now the plugin works perfect!
i ever missd covers in songbird !

here i had a couple ideas for you :
→preferences for your display popup
→read covers from ID3Tags

greetz ALU

With the 0.4 final release, Album Art Manager 0.0.8 appears to be working for me (WinXP), though it still does conflict with Now Playing List.

Some further suggestions:

• Make the art stretch to the size of the service pane.
• Optionally filter the “Get Album Art” window to show only albums with missing art.
• Right-click functionality: right-click on any song in a playlist to “Get Art for This Album.”
• Optionally retrieve art automatically when tracks with missing art begin to play.
• Toggle follow cursor / follow playing.

And a bug:

• When I choose "Get artwork from File," the right-click menu doesn't disappear when the explorer dialog pops up.

Thanks for your continued work on this and the speedy updates!

• Optionally retrieve art automatically when tracks with missing art begin to play.

Oh, it looks like it already does this!

Actually, you should be able to configure the colors of the track notification in Growl in your System Preferences.

I don’t use MacOS X but Win XP. How can I d on Windows to make the notifications more readable?

Thanks for your help

Hi maybe you can add a function to disable the notifier or to change the transparency etc.
Using the notifier with directx applications like games leads to a stuttering video output in the directx applications, not only while the notifier is on top even after disappearing.

Oh, right, I have no idea how I forgot about that. :)
Looks like the alert system in this extension is simply a styled window. If you know how an extension works, you can change the css file yourself in the skin directory.
But if you have no idea what I have just said, you should probably wait for future updates. There’s no user-friendly way to customize the notifications on Windows or Linux currently, but stevo is probably working on that.

Ooh, I just found out that this now lets you specify your own image. Thanks!

But I also found a bug. Seems like the notifications do not get and display the cover art when you leave Songbird in mini mode.

Maybe the notifier pop-up doesn’t disappear completely and remains minimized in the foreground please fix it thanks.

Currently there is an issue when a album has various artists. Only some of the tracks will get album data. I commented out line 281 which tells songbird to search for a specific artist name in addition to the album name in order to resolve the problem.

seems to be a conflict between birdtitel and albumart manager, i cant disable the birdtitle notifier but this is a other problem and has to be solved in a other threat^^

Manually fetching covers from amazon is screwed up for me. Covers I fetched for one album will appear on other albums, and lots of times all the albums will show the same cover even though thats not actually the cover stored for that album.

Letting albums fetch as they play seems okay, although I’m not sure how that works, since I have folder.jpg files for albums on my computer it might just be getting it from those.

Also, would it be possible to "search" for album covers? What I mean is, for an album that doesn't fetch correctly from amazon, I could put in a keyword for it to search for covers with that keyword, then pick the correct one. It would be useful especially if I customized the album title.

Version 0.9 makes it so that when I’m in the Album Art Manager, there are no albums shown.

‘album art manager’ menu option opens a blank indow on 0.0.9

Hello Stevo

in the 0.0.9 version are some bugs on windows

→album art manager opens a clear window
→the covers won’t show

i hope you will fix this soon

PS: your plugin is really great ;)

greetz ALU

0.0.9 dont work for me (windows).
It shows no covers, only the little birdy.
album art manager opens a blank window, with only the menu “Covers” and “Missing Art Work”-Button. (Both do nothing, when I click it).
Its seems to be a similar problem as the one mentioned by Julien1311, Fri, 12/28/2007–01:12PM.

The screenshots are wonderful, it would be great, if you can get it working ;-)

Hi Stevo

Version 0.9.1 didn’t work for me… same as 0.9.0 ,wait for fixes ;)

keep going

greetz ALU

the album cover problem doesn’t seem to be fixed for me.
’preciate your work, though!

yeah im having the same problem 0.09–0.091 havent worked for me. Current Album Cover shows the default image and window only shows the two buttons.

This looks like a great addon, but as with the above I can’t get it to display anything. I’ve got a clean install of 0.4 and there are no messages in the error console.

I’m running Windows XP.

thx for the great work so far :)

HI stevo
the new version 0.9.2 works great for me on WinXP

SB 0.4 after a bit testing the button “get missing covers” didn’t work

and i have had some problems with the covers form Billy Talent… but after a while i get the right covers on the right Billy album so it doesnt matter as much.

PS: very very great work Stevo !

PS II: sorry for my terrible english ;)

regards ALU

Hi Stevo,

Version 0.9.2 displays the covers and the filter displays the missing covers. However when i played a song that in the album art manager has a cover assigned, the current playing pane in the bottom corner does not show the artwork it just shows the default songbird image.

I am running ubuntu 7.10 with songbird 0.4

Great work stevo

Seems like the Album Manager is working again :).

Though, none of the covers that have been fetched are showing up there. They sow up in the “current album cover” area, but the manager shows I don’t have covers for anything o_O.

Also, could you implement some sorting or search function to the manager? Even just an alphabetical sort would help, I can’t find anything.

Hey Stevo!

Installed the latest update (0.9.2) and was surprised to see it still didn’t work (album art simply wasn’t downloaded at all). Madly checking and unchecking the options however made me realise what was up:

For some reason when the option “Save covers to” was selected (with a folder that did exist and was writable) new album images would not be downloaded or saved. Changing this back to “Use album location” fixed the problem and it now works fine.

Just though I should let you know. :-)

Also teh “Get missing artwork from amazon” button doesn’t work–though I can fetch each album from amazon individually

* I'm also having problems with Album Art not showing up on the display pane (Service Pane Bottom). Only the default songbird image appears. * also not able to get missing art work from amazon. I'm running Songbird 0.4 on XP. Any updates or suggestions? Please and thank you.

First of all, great work Stevo! Your add on is my favorite so far.

I was having the same problem as Yelif and many others, but when I enabled Track Change Notification the service pane worked again.

Yet I have another problem: Album Art Manager is fetching the same cover for a group of albums with entirely different names/artists. Any idea why this is happening?

0.9.2 now partly works. It shows everything correct, and finds missing covers on amazon.

BUT: it did not save any cover! it doesnt even show them in den “current album cover”-section.
So now that even worse than before, because now I can see what is possible with this add-on, but i cant reach it! :’-(

I hope you find a solution…

The next important step should be to use amazon-stores in different countries.That would be a dream!

Rock on!

it worked!! Cron you’re a genius! Once I enabled the track change notification the Album covers appeared.

now if we can only find out why Amazon fetches the same cover for all tracks.

thanks guys, keep up the good work.

This might be a stupid question but does it also fetch the embedded album art directly from the MP3?

All my MP3’s have embedded album art, which is shown in multiple mediaplayers and devices (incl. iPod/Playstation Portable/Walkman phone, etc) but it does not display in Songbird with this addon…

Hey, great add-on, or at least it would be if I could sort this slight issue I’m having.

All my music is stored on a server in my house, and although your add-on successfully identifies the correct album cover, and downloads it, it fails to display it from the network, I just have a grey (perhaps transparent) box, which shows nothing at all.

I’d like to have the covers stored with the music rather than keep them locally, any ideas why it can’t display from the network?

Oh right, it does require a login, thought it might just see if windows had already logged in, like songbird seems to do to play the music, the only thing thats confusing me now, is its creating the file, its downloading the image, and saving it on the network, so surely if its got permission to write, then its got permission to read?

file:////mediapc/music/kate%20nash/made%20of%20bricks/foundations.mp3

Please pardon my ignorance but I am completely new to Songbird.

I just installed SB 0.4 and am not able dont know how to get album covers. I have the default icon for all albums.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Edit:

I all of a sudden have album covers? I still don't know how to download them, though.

I figured it out. Sorry.

album art is the same as above, but with cover.jpg in place of foundations.mp3, sorry, wrote down wrong location.

Hi!

I’m giving a try at your add-on, but I have some problems. But 1st: OS: Ubuntu 7.10, and SB: 0.4.

1) Most of my album covers are saved where the respective audio files are and the cover is named folder.jpg. It seems your add-on uses cover.jpg, which is fine as long as it will recognize folder.jpg too, or Folder.jpg, or the 1st image file in the directory.

2) I downloaded one cover for an album. It saved it correctly at the right folder with name of cover.jpg, but Current Album Cover does not show it. Is it supposed to show when I play the file and when it’s selected, or when?

I go to the manager (through the menu) and right click on some albums to get it’s cover from amazon.
that works (the covers appear)
but on the left buttom of songbird where the cover should appear then when i play the album there’s just the default songbird album cover–.–

Retrieving Album Covers from ID3Tags would make life so much easier for everyone.

Keep up the good work.

can we erase this add-on so that nobody accidently downloads it

Is anyone else having problems setting the album cover from a local file?

Also, it would be really cool if the Album Art Manager add-on could talk to the Album View add-on.

Also, is this album art only for use within Songbird, or is it supposed to be saving into the metadata? So far it’s not writing into the metadata for me, because the art isn’t showing up in the Album Applet add-on.

I am using Ver.0.9.2. And, though it remodeled for Amazon.co.jp Two byte character is garbled, and a normal result is not obtained. Then, to obtain a normal result so that the user in the sphere of two bytes might also use it, the source was corrected. The revision part is the following. 1.Request parameter change to Amazon Artist=%artist%%album-query% -> Keywords=%artist%%album-query% - In Artist because it is too severe as the retrieval item 2.Method change escape() -> encodeURI() unescape() -> decodeURI() - Two byte character because normally it encodes, and the decipherment doesn't occur. Moreover, because the folder of an abnormal name is made if the encode decipherment cannot be normally done. 3.Method application addition EncodeURI() is applied to all the request parameters to Amazon. - Because the request parameter to Amazon reaches normally. The cover of MP3 that uses the character in two bytes can be acquired in these correspondences and the image be acquired from Amazon.co.jp normally. I think something for it to be able to refer though it is uncertain whether it is correspondence that this is correct. Moreover, the image acquisition correspondence excluding Amazon.com is officially expected.

Getting two notifications of a track change, first the album art is displayed from this plugin, then another notification which is slightly different with no album art.

I’ve checked all other plug-ins and nothing is conflicting, screenshots showing the progression are below (I hope it’s ok to post links like this).

1. http://img403.imageshack.us/my.php?image=albumart1oh4.jpg

2. http://img85.imageshack.us/my.php?image=albumart2dz5.jpg

3. http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=albumart3qy3.jpg

The first notification scrolls away before the second one does.

Found it was “Minimise to system tray” causing the extra song notification. I’ll make a relevant comment but I’m sure he knows.

So this plugin is pretty much perfect for me!
Good work.

Hi Stevo,

I am running os x 10.4.11 and get the following errors when using the album art manager:

Looks good, hope this report is helpful

JimmyK

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception… “’[JavaScript Error: "AmazonAlbumCoverGetter is not defined” {file: “file:///Users/jimmyk/Library/Application%20Support/Songbird1/Profiles/pnssorba.default/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js” line: 544}]’ when calling method: [sbIAlbumArtService::getAlbumCoverFromAmazon]" nsresult: “0x80570021 (NSERRORXPCJAVASCRIPTERRORWITHDETAILS)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://albumartmanager/content/albumartmanager.js :: anonymous :: line 198” data: yes]

Patiently waiting for SB 0.5 support . . .

It does not show an album cover on the OSD for me. I have another add-on, which does but I cannot find a way do disable the OSD in the Album Art Manager.

Hi, it does not install to any version of Songbird. I tried a nightly build, blessed build and even 0.4, and every time I’ve got

“Album Art Manager” could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Songbird build type (WINNT_x86-msvc). Please contact the author of this item about the problem.

I get the same problem on Mac OSX.

Still has error. Using 0.5 nightly build and windows vista.

With what version of Songbird it is currently compatible?

Is there an option to tell Album Art Manager that the cover.jpg’s are located in the folder with the music?

Same problem on Linux using Nightly Build:

“Album Art Manager” could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Songbird build type (Linux_x86-gcc3). Please contact the author of this item about the problem.

1.0.1 is hardwired for Darwin_x86-gcc3 in install.rdf.

yes, i see it now. changed to Linux _x86-gcc3 and was able to install.

it does not seem to work at the moment though it did for previous versions.

I am at a loss here….

“Album Art Manager” could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Songbird build type (WINNT_x86-msvc). Please contact the author of this item about the problem.

i have the same problem and you seem to have solved it. If so, can you tell me how you did this.

found it
got it to install

just 1 question how does it search for the covers. I have a cover.jpg file in the same folder as in the songs of that disc and it doest find it.

HI stevo

your new version doesent work for me on SB 5rc1 i have two errors in the console:

1:

Error: [Exception… “’JavaScript component does not have a method named: "onBeforeTrackChange”’ when calling method: [sbIPlaylistPlaybackListener::onBeforeTrackChange]" nsresult: “0x80570030 (NSERRORXPCJSOBJECTHASNOFUNCTION_NAMED)” location: “JS frame :: file:///.../components/sbPlaylistPlayback.js :: anonymous :: line 967” data: no]
Source File: file:///.../components/sbPlaylistPlayback.js
Line: 970

2:
Error: [Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NSERRORUNEXPECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getBoolPref]” nsresult: “0x8000ffff (NSERRORUNEXPECTED)” location: “JS frame :: file:///.../extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js :: anonymous :: line 277” data: no]
Source File: file:///D:/Programme/Songbird/components/sbPlaylistPlayback.js
Line: 991

i hope you can fix this soon.

keep up the gtrat work ;)

greetz ALU

I have the same error as some of the other users:

“"Album Art Manager” could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Songbird build type (WINNT_x86-msvc). Please contact the author of this item about the problem."

Downloaded the *.xpi file.
Renamed to *.zip
Uncompressed
Substituted from the *.rdf file “Darwin_x86-gcc3” with “WINNT_x86-msvc”
Recompressed and renamed the new *.zip to *.xpi

Installed without problem.
But unable to find any cover after one hour of work.

The covers are in the folders, is any way to load them directly from folders?

Hi setveo

first sorry for my bad english and thx for the great support.

now i have again a bug for you I dont know if its only on WIN.

if i try to use the cover from file function i get an error on the errorconsole.

Here we go ;)

Error: albumElement is not defined
Source File: chrome://albumartmanager/content/scripts/albumartmanager.js
Line: 188

Hello, I am totally new to songbird but loving it so far, and bar far this is the best add-on I have found, but I am having a little trouble with something.

From what I have read I think this add-on will allow a similar function to coverflow in iTunes, but whenever it starts for me it comes up in a seperate window from the main songbird window, am I doing something wrong?

charliwest

The addon you are thinking of is album applet it implements something similar to itunes coverflow. This one just lets you manage the covers of each of your albums (btw i just love it, its one of my favorites)

Think i might have found a bug or two.

Have the album by Weird Al Yankovic Called “Weird Al” Yankovic, the album name includes quotes. When i search for the album art on amazon it acts like it didnt find it. But it seems to have saved it correctly in the folder. Still wont display it though. This makes me think there might be some kind of escaping problem?

With the latest version (With the swirling images) when it starts searching for an image it cant find it wont stop, and this seems to lag / stop future searches from working unless i re open songbird. Any ideas? Is there a built in timeout?

Hi there! I want to suggest another feature that is present in other mmedia player. I noticed that if a MP3Tag contain the cover, it is ignored and the extension try to download it however. Would be nice to have this!
Bye, J.

Thanks for your reply.
That add-on seems to have gone, anyone know what happened?

Nice work but it would be ace if it could grab your current covers from itunes. Is this possible?

Here’s a bug when saving covers!
(SB 0.5, AAM 1.0.2)

The extension is set to save into the original music folder but cannot handle ‘non-standard’ letters, e.g.

original, existing music folder:
“Olé, Olé”;

instead of saving the cover into this folder the extension creates a new folder named
“olé, olé” .

Another example,
“Grönemeyer” &
“grönemeyer” .

Also, when the extension cannot find a cover it continuous displaying the last played, known cover, which is confusing. I would prefer, if it would either show a blank images or a note stating that no cover is yet available.

Hope that makes sense.

Cheers, C

Let me start this by stating that I may be doing something wron. I’m running SB 0.5 & AAM 1.0.2+dev. I put my album art covers in the same folder at the album. With some covers AAM recopies a different cover into the folder than the one I placed there.

Got a suggestion. Add on works like a charm by the way. Is there a way you code the add on to look up a playlist item that constantly changes?(internet radio artist/song name)

When I Try to “Get Artwork from file” it just doesn’t work: it keeps of “finding the artwork” to infinity…..

help?

Yeah…
Does this get the artwork from a website?
Because i have downloaded songs from skreemr, and only 2 of the tracks have artwork displayed when they are played.
I am doing this wrong? i thought this would be good so the album art would be saved and displayed on my mp3, but only a couple actually do

Also when you click on the art in the seperate window, and select get from amazon, it never seems to stop swirling.
Is this a problem? maybe in next version maybe use a faster album finder thing.

I don’t know if you’ve realised, but you need to update this extension to implement sbIPlaylistPlaybackListener.onBeforeTrackChange

Proposal for new FEATURE:
Do you think it would be possible to have an image handling implemented in order to store the album art in the files directly?

I have just seen the screenshot with the WIN popup. So of course also a linux version using libnotify would be nice to have.
Cheers and thanks for your effort in that !

Martin