Hello, Steven,
Thanks: I was looking forward to this feature! Here are some comments:
1. After running the Download Tool for my soundtracks, I have more than 4 gigas of space occupied by the images. On the one hand, it’s great to have all the images downloaded in case you are off-line, but for some people, this space taken could be too much. Therefore, some users might appreciate to be given the choice of limiting the Download Tool to those album titles that aren’t recognized are film titles. For the other album titles, those which are correctly identified, MB could just do as it does with artist images: it could download the images one by one and store only one in the cache folder.
2. In those cases where users do want to download the images for all the album titles, would it be possible to set a limit on the number of images per album? Depending on the availability, there are cases where I have 2 images and cases where I have more than 100. Of course, you can always manually choose those you prefer and delete the others.
3. Here’s a possible bug I found:
a. I ran the Download Tool once to find film pictures.
b. After going through all the album titles, it requested the names of some films.
c. I typed "Aladdin" for "Aladdin [special edition]" and it found some images.
d. I closed MB and deleted all the film pictures to check if MB remembered that it had to link "Aladdin [special edition]" to "Aladdin".
e. I ran the Download Tool again.
f. It didn’t download the images for album "Aladdin [special edition]", though it did remember that it corresponded to the film "Aladdin" (in fact, the status, before running the tool, wasn’t "No match found", but "No images found for movie"). MB should have directly downloaded the images, as it did recognize the title, or at least, the album should have appeared on the list of film titles not found.
4. I currently have more than 9000 images in the Soundtrack Pictures folder. Would it be worth considering creating a folder for each film?
5. I’ve noticed there’s a file called SavedSountrackMappings.dat, so I presume that, if you keep it, we won’t need to type the titles again if we have a new installation: that’d save us a lot of time.
6. The Download Tool looks for artist pictures not only in those cases where there are no pictures available, but also in those cases where the thumb found is a small PNG measuring 126x126 (that is, when no JPEG file is created in the folder set in Tags(1) ). This is a good choice, as it’s always better to try to find high resolution images, but I was wondering if, in the list of artists, there could be way to indicate when there are no pictures at all (maybe using the red colour?) to distinguish it from the scenario where there’s at least a low-resolution image.
7. It’d be useful to be able to sort the table by Status, so that we can quickly know where there are images available: otherwise we need to scroll one by one all the way down. Or MB could just show, as it does with film titles, only the problematic cases.
8. You said that you were considering giving the option of downloading just landscape images, an option that I’d love to have, though this would mean that no posters are displayed.
9. When looking for artist thumb pictures, in the vertical scroll-bar, the little triangle looking down is missing and there’s a strange bar below the list of artists:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17615125/foros/Musicbee/triangle.pngI think that’s all. I hope these comments are useful. Thank you, Steve, for enriching the experience of using MB with this great feature.
