Adds the Discogs Cover Fetcher to the Album Art Manager.
Description
This is an extension that adds a new Cover Fetcher to the Album Art Manager extension. This Fetcher will download cover art from http://www.discogs.com/ which has a great selection of covers for the more obscure albums including vinyl releases. This addon requires the Album Art Manager from http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/102
This is a modified version of the Last.FM Cover Fetcher by Stevo. I have changed it to download album artwork from Discogs. Stevo's orginal extension can be found at http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1215
Limitations
This addon works by searching Discogs using the artist and album name. The image is then downloaded from the first album returned in the search results. This means that to download one album cover takes two http requests. The Discog API documentation mentions "API usage is limited to 5,000 requests per 24-hour period, per IP address". For this reason it may only be possible to download 2,500 album covers from Discogs within a 24 hour period with this addon.
For big collections I recommend you set this fetcher as the lowest priority in the Album Art Manager's settings. This means that requests are only sent to Discogs when album art can not be found from any other fetchers you may have setup.
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- 1.1 - Changed the classID so there is no longer a conflict with the Last.FM Cover Fetcher Addon.
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Very good!
With this add-on Album Art Manager works better,
good job
thanks a lot for the effort!! but i did encounter a few problems with the extension. First of all the extension doesn’t show up in the Cover Fetcher Priority but I guess it is the second last.fm entry in the list. secondly after installing the extension the album art manager didn’t find any additional album art even though I know the covers are available at discogs. For example it didn’t find the album art for this release: Fennesz – +47° 56’ 37” -16° 51’ 08” but the cover is up there at discogs: http://www.discogs.com/release/14953. Any idea what the problem might be? Another issue might come up due to the fact that for many releases there is more than one entry in the discogs database.
I’m using: Songbird 0.6.1. Album Art Manager 1.4.1 on OSX 10.5.2 and Windows XP
Thanx again, Slate8
@ squaredancer
i have discovered that you need to label your metadata (id3tag) exactly the same album name as displayed in Discogs to retrieve the art….
eg.
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness = NO ART (reason: &)
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness CD1 = NO ART (reason: CD1)
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness Dawn to Dusk = NO ART (reason dawn to dusk)
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness = ART
the search parameters are very narrow…
@liltrix
All my MP3s have the exact same name as displayed at discogs since my tagging software uses the discogs database for proper tagging. so that can’t be the reason for not working.
@squaredancer – I have managed to re-create the fetcher name issue so will have a look into this during the week. Interestingly it only happens when the last.fm cover fetcher is installed.
As for the searching side of things. I submit searches to Discogs as artist – album and then let their search engine do the work of finding the release. For this reason I don’t have much control on how strict the search is but perhaps I should just be submitting the album/release name. Even if this was the case searching Discogs for the imaginatively named +47° 56’ 37†-16° 51’ 08†does not return any results. What steps do you go through to find this release on the Discogs site?
@Slate8
I just uninstalled the last.fm cover fetcher and now the discogs add-on works perfectly. strange but true. thanx again slate8.
@Slate8 sorry about not mentioning this but you need to change the classID for your component, otherwise it will conflict with the Last.FM component. I will update my notes on the Album Art Manager page and in the Last.FM component. :)
Thanks for the tip stevo - I have updated the ClassID and uploaded a new version.
Hey,
It worked really well alot of the time, but for a few albums it "fetched" the image associated with the artist, not the particular album. This happened for several "Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers" albums. Just a though.
though. duh.
the install button are disabled :(
Yep, it is disabled for me too. How do we install it?
TEST
install button is still disabled
is there any intention to continue development of this add-on for 0.7?
This extension requires an update. I even changed the RDF, but it still didn't work.
Ok, I managed to update the extension. It looks like all the methods for plugging into the Album Art Manager had changed in a recent version, so I had to rewrite them using (drum-roll) the most recent LastFM Cover Fetcher as a template.
Slate8, if you want, I can send you an updated XPI file for you to upload here. Other than that, does anybody know of a way to update an extension that you didn't write?
Thanks!