About my latest request, I found a possible solution, but I'd like to know what you, Steven, and the others think, especially as I need to write the How-to for the Download Tool (which I'll do this week).
In those cases where there's an album consisting on a compilation of tracks from the same composer, I've written the name of the composer under ARTIST and I've written "VARIOUS" under ALBUMARTIST, even if there’s only one artist: this way, MB tries to find an image for each track, which is the whole purpose. It’s a trick, but it seems to work.
My question is: could messing with the ARTIST and ALBUMARTIST tags affect the functioning of MB? I have to say that I don't use at all the ALBUMARTIST tag anywhere in MB and this would be the only place.
Apart from this, I have some comments to make:
1. The Download Tool couldn't identify most of the tracks/(film titles) of a particular album and I had to type them myself. Now if I play a particular track, the compact player shows the picture, but if I go to the Soundtrack Pictures folder, I find a file called:
"Captain from Castile (The classic film scores of Alfred Newman) [remastered]--The Song Of Bernadette.jpg
which is empty: it has zero bytes. It seems MB temporarily downloads this image, but it's not really stored in this folder, because, although the file exists, it's empty, as I said before.
2. The dialogue box in the Download Tool is too small, considering that the film title, in these cases, is necessarily longer, consisting of the album title + the track title. It'd be great if the window could be resized by the user. As you can see here, there’s not enough space:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17615125/foros/Musicbee/downloader_tool_small.png3. I think it'd make more sense if the tracks (of a particular compilation album) in the dialogue box of the Download Tool weren't sorted out by title, but by track number, following the order of the back cover, which the user might need to read when he’s using the tool. This makes special sense when there are several tracks of a particular film and you can’t know automatically the film they belong to unless you have a look at the back cover.
4. This doesn’t have to do with compilations, but it’s a general issue. There are too many examples of films with the same title, and in these cases, it’d be essential for MB to take into account the year. Could anybody think of a way to implement this easily?
Thanks everybody for your time and suggestions!!
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