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Title: Jukebox with automatic cover art d/l
Post by: DemonBrew on September 23, 2005, 10:45:33 am

I was going through the Jukebox Software List, and google, and various other locations and I could swear I read something about pc jukebox software that automatically downloaded album cover art. Of course, I can't find it now. Any ideas?

Title: Re: Jukebox with automatic cover art d/l
Post by: NinjaEpisode on September 23, 2005, 12:29:38 pm

http://ThePCJukebox.com

Although, my personal experience with this software tells me that, while the intentions are admirable, the execution is quite frankly less than desirable.  I was forced to go through multiple different albums and reassociate them with the proper album cover.

Sometimes this thing just hits randomly.

Title: Re: Jukebox with automatic cover art d/l
Post by: DemonBrew on September 23, 2005, 12:35:57 pm

Thanks. I did d/l that, just haven't tested it out. I'm looking for a jukebox that doesn't rely on a specific folder structure like \artist\albumname\xxfilename.mp3.

I basically have one large directory of a couple thousand mp3s, and not entire albums of artists. Kind of a "mix tape" on hard drive. I am definately not going to create directories, rename them, then move all the files around. The mp3s all have correct ID3 tags, the jukebox software should be able to build from that, right?

Is there any kind of software comparison site out there I can view? You know, based on file types supported, full screen or not, freeware vs shareware, etc?

Title: Re: Jukebox with automatic cover art d/l
Post by: Barry Barcrest on September 24, 2005, 12:29:09 pm

ThePCJukebox builds it's albums from the tag information so if you have everything dumped in one folder it will still work, as long as everything is tagged correctly.

Title: Re: Jukebox with automatic cover art d/l
Post by: darthbane2k on October 10, 2005, 08:31:40 am

walmart.com is your friend...

Title: Re: Jukebox with automatic cover art d/l
Post by: DemonBrew on October 14, 2005, 02:38:35 pm

Followup: got The PCJukebox, works really nice. Read the README that comes with it "be sure your ID3 tags are correct blah blah". Still ended up with half of my 2000 songs under the "Unknown Artist" selection.

Ran AudioGrail, checked the tags, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. Tags looked fine. Had about 10 or 20 with punctuation marks that I took out, but PCJukebox had the same results.

Apparently, PCJukebox looks to see if a v2 tag is present and uses it. If not, it looks for a v1 tag. All my v2 tags were incorrect, and my v1 tags were correct. I d/l Tag&Rename, syncd the v1 tag info to overwrite the v2 info.

After that, PCJukebox then had all the correct tag info.

Just thought I'd pass this along to save someone else from yanking out their hair.