Author Topic: Add alternative source for Artwork search?  (Read 7175 times)

please55

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I love that MB can autodownload album art if you choose to.  However, I'm wondering if alternative sources could be added to replace fanart.  Specifically I'd like to be able to grab art from Deezer.

It would go a long way towards minimizing effort needed to update album art for a large library.


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Somebody just posted a deezer plugin for Picard, apparently they have some kind of api for artwork
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As deezer has an easy to use API, I have added support for the next v3.4 update. You will need to enable it in the Tags(2) preferences


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Thanks Steven!
Tried it with different albums, including those downloaded from Deezer, does not work "no match", can someone confirm that it works?

Last Edit: October 18, 2020, 12:14:09 PM by Sofocl
Sorry for my bad English.

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This doesn't appear to be working. I enabled deezer in Tags (2) but it doesn't even show up in the downloader.
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Works here (USA), but only at 1000x1000.  Deezer consistently has 1400.


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Hmmm ... maybe the one on the right in my screenshot (without a site name) is deezer as it's showing 1000x1000.

Perhaps this will help Steven figure out what's going on.  
When I select album > right-click > search internet for picture, I get this:


When I select album > tools > artwork > downloader, I get this:
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i dont think deezer is available in all regions
That's certainly possible, but frankz and I are both in the US. His works. Mine doesn't.
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I get results from Deezer in both the Artwork Downloader and the "Search Internet for Picture" context menu, always 1000X1000;  the preview square always has a blank caption in Artwork Downloader, but shows "deezer" in the other.  Phred, do you NEVER get a hit for deezer in "Search Internet.." when it does show up in Artwork Downloader?

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BTW the uncaptioned result in Artwork Downloader is indeed deezer, found an example where the color difference matched the captioned one in "Search.." even with all the other sites showing slightly different results.
Last Edit: October 18, 2020, 11:55:30 PM by sveakul

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Phred, do you NEVER get a hit for deezer in "Search Internet.." when it does show up in Artwork Downloader?
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Same version number.

There doesn't seem to be any consistency other than with the downloader, it never shows the label "deezer" whether or not it retrieves an image. With 'search internet, sometimes there's a image, but most often there isn't. And it never shows the 'deezer' label.
With 'search internet':


And with 'artwork downloader':
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The artwork downloader is missing some aspects of the deezer update so i will fix that.
The "Search Internet" popup should work though - i have no issues with "Eric Clapton" "I Still Do"

Re: 1400x1400, the largest the api returns in 1000x1000 but it could be changed to 1400x1400
However are you guys sure its always 1400x1400 ?
Last Edit: October 19, 2020, 07:58:40 AM by Steven