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rvas18
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I am trying to figure out a way to download fanart for my music library. I have tried cdArt manager, but it uses and 'extrafanart' folder that seems to not be compatible.
I see where the scrapers are supposed to support it, but I can't figure out how to make it work. Ive tried last.fm and allmusic scrapers. somehow I have fanart for 2pac and a pic of a band I don't recognize.... no clue how those got there
My library is 565 artists and 674 albums. It is meticulously organized with id3 tags, cover art embedded and as folder.jpg, and in a consistent folder structure:
=>Artist
====>Album (Year)
====>extrafanart [only in the artists cdArt found]
The task is too large for me to put fanart.jpg into folders manually. I can't seem to find a tool like ember media manager for this either.
Can someone help?
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rvas18
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I have the collection scanned in the library. I see my artists, albums (with art), genres everything.
The only thing I dont see is fanart.... is there a way to make it scan all fanart?
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rvas18
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I am running Aeon Nox so it's supported for sure. I can trick it into downloading one artist at a time by switching the scrapers from AllMusic (never seems to work) to Last.FM and then tell it to Query info for all theartists. It will look like it scanning, hang on the artist i have highlighted in the library, and proceed to finish the query. However it only downloads info and fanart for only that artist I have highlighted. I actually have 5-10 artists that I have downloaded information for this way.
I've tried removing the source cleaning the database and re adding everything. No luck in gettin it to read everything. It does pull everybit of the album art, but I assume that is becuase I am so particular in my tagging and folder structure.
I can't even 'refresh' the Artist or Album profile with out it asking me to type the name of the artist over and over and over and over and over and over until I give up.
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spiff
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how about that silly 'download info for all artists' entry in the very same context menu? must be some unrelated crap!
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OMG I GOT IT.
this is stupid, but I found a working workaround.
i noticed there are issues with this as well, still, on 11rc2
how i noticed it is i had no fanart anywhere at all, and i had a couple tracks with messed up tags, so i fixed the tags, updated the library, and what do you know, it decided to get fanart for those 2 bands/albums.
so i figured if it will get fanart after some kind of change, why not make a global change(regarding the music library) and whats the easiest way to do that? put all the music inside the music folder, in a new folder. IT WORKED
so folder structure before
+Music
--+Genre
----+Artist
------+Album
and now
+music
--+stupid folder to make a change to something
----+Genre
------+Everything else
Hope this helps, im sure you can move it all back and update again so you have your files where they should be