Album Art Downloader XUI

I've been working on this for a while, and I think it is time to let people start playing with it. This is a rewrite of the Album Art Downloader code, using .NET Framework 3.5.

Features

For the graphically-minded out there, although this app isn't skinnable, the UI is all created in XAML, so if you want to grab the source and start editing the UI, please feel free. It is under the XUI folder in the SVN Repository

   * Dynamically resizeable thumbnails
   * Thumbnail information
   * Sort by Name, Size or Source
   * Filter results under or over a specified size, or by maximum results for each source
   * Substitution syntax path to save images
   * Local files search that matches save pattern
   * Enable or disable scripts from the command line
   * New strongly typed interface-based script model; write compiled scripts in any .net language
   * Backwards compatible with existing scripts
   * Backwards compatible with existing command line parameters, including old CoverDownloader parameters.
   * Analyse files to find Artists and Albums from tags, or from file and folder names, and check if album art is already present (File Browser).
   * Read your foobar2000 media library or playlists to find Artists and Albums, and check for album art (Foobar Browser)

To Do

Presets (quick saving for Front/Back/Inlay, etc.)

Bugs

Please use the SourceForge tracker system for reporting bugs.

Changelog

Version 0.21 (2008-07-21)
- If the existing search window is re-used for a new search, it is now brought to the foreground.
- When the thumbnail information is displayed below the thumbnail, the info button no longer overlaps the button to toggle the information to display to the side.
- Fixed bug where if a search initiated from the file browser was queued, it would have the wrong path to save images to popuplated.
- Removed artists.trivialbeing script, and replaced it with LastFM Artist.
Version 0.20 (2008-07-12)
- Added a Folder column to File/Foobar browsers (hidden by default)
- Added the ability to hide and show columns in the File/Foobar browser. Right click on any column header to hide or show a column.
  - File/Foobar columns visibility and widths are now persisted.
- Window size and position settings now behave more like other settings in the way they are applied to new windows.
- Current settings are now applied to queued search windows as they are dequeued, rather than enqueued.
- Fixed crash in command line version when album or artist was not supplied
- Added "Forum" and "Donations" links to Help menu. If the donations menu entry is aesthetically or philosophically objectionable to you, highlight it and click the Delete key to remove it.
- AlbumArtExchange script updated to use XML API.
- Cover-Paradies script fixed
Version 0.19 (2008-05-23)
- Search results grouping (by source, or by local / online results).
- File and Foobar browsers now support multiple alternates (separated by a "|") for image path searching.
- Added the ability to the File Browser path pattern matching function to specify the path should match folders rather than files (by ending the pattern with "\.")
- Delete key now removes items from history lists.
- Changed Local Files Source settings so that a path is always set, but added new "%folder%" and "%filename%" placeholders to it, which produce the folder and filename of the specified default path to save images.
- Improvements to the generation of the default filename to save to when launching from file and Foobar browsers.
- File path pattern matching box history list fixed
- Some keyboard accessibility bugs fixed
Version 0.18 (2008-04-27)
- Added extra information link to results (where provided by the script)
- Added installer option to add a "Browse for Album Art" to the context menu for folders in Explorer.
- Installer bug fixes
Version 0.17 (2008-04-19)
- Fixed memory leak when closing search windows
- Various performance and responsiveness improvements
- Added /minAspect parameter to command line interface
- Fixed GoogleImage and Coveralia scripts
- Upgraded to MediaInfo version 0.7.6.3
Version 0.16 (2008-04-06)
- Better handling of file path errors when searching for files
- Fixed strange MakeSafeForPath crash
- Added detection for missing .net 3.5 framework at application startup
- Added Album Art Exchange script
Version 0.15 (2008-03-24)
- Fixed bug with images whose formats can not be determined
- Artist and Album text boxes now select their contents when tabbed to
- Added Copy command to context menu for album art results
- Better reporting of MediaInfo x86/x64 compatibility issues
- Upgraded to MediaInfo version 0.7.6.1
- Fixed bug where closing foobar browser without com automation server installed would cause a crash.
- Improved single instance mechanism robustness
- Refactored Amazon scripts into one common script and several optional regional variations (.com, .co.uk, .jp, etc...)
Version 0.14 (2008-02-22)
- Fixed bug with paths with {} characters
- Characters which can not be part of filenames are now automatically replaced by underscores when substituting placeholders.
- Added Playlist selector to Foobar browser
- Added option to determine artist and album by path pattern instead of ID3 tags in the file browser
- Fixed bug when closing a prior instance while a new one was starting up
Version 0.13 (2008-02-10)
- Changed foobar browser to use %album artist% instead of %artist%
- Fixed bug with parameter values starting with -
- Upgraded to MediaInfo version 0.7.5.9
- Fixed rare GUI freezing bug
- Fixed minor uninstaller bug (not removing aad.exe cached script file)
Version 0.12 (2008-01-27)
- Upgraded to .NET Framework 3.5
- Added queue length indication to Queue Manager
- Added /minSize and /maxSize parameters to control image size filtering
- Fixed bug where multiple identical un-named parameters would be ignored
- Added command line interface (aad.exe)
Version 0.11 (2008-01-20)
- Upgraded to MediaInfo version 0.7.5.7
- Added /separateInstance parameter, for optional prevention of the single instance behaviour. Use of this parameter is not generally recommended.
- Added ability to remove items from the File/Foobar browser using the Delete key
- Added art file size column to File/Foobar browser
- Added background colouring to the File/Foobar browser rows to help indicate artwork status (missing gives a red highlight, present gives green)
- Added the ability to view the results unsorted (in the order in which they are found)
- Fixed bug where local files search would not be searching the right location when the search window was launched from the file or foobar browser.
- Fixed bug where the default save path would be populated with wildcards from the file or foobar browser.
- Fixed scripts: Coveralia, CoverIsland
Version 0.10
- Added workaround for mediainfo bug with FLAC tag casing
- Failing to save settings will no longer crash
- Failing to load settings will no longer crash, and will provide options for recovery
- Fixed bug where invalid characters in the Save path would cause a crash
- Version and Author information for sources no longer widens the source list, instead it overflows with a tooltip when it won't fit.
Version 0.9 (2007-09-11)
- Added iTunes Music Shop search script, and included ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll which is required by it.
Version 0.9 (2007-09-09)
- Added Foobar2000 library browser
- Persistent Preview window (right click on a result and choose "Preview...")
- Improved performance of search results thumbnails list
- Improved handling of larger-than-screen preview popups
- Fixed Coveralia and Yes24 scripts which had become out of date
- Updated to version 0.7.5.2 of the MediaInfo tag reading library
- Added command line parameter for setting the sorting to use for results
- All sources now limit the results returned to the first 10 by default (click the ... at the bottom right of a source to adjust or remove this limit for a source)
- Fixed bug where all windows would share a single remembered size, so windows of different types now remember their size independently.
- Added re-use of existing search window from the command line, if "Open Results in New Window" option is turned off, and there is only one search window currently open, and search terms are passed on the command line.
Version 0.8 (2007-07-28)
- Added Drag and Drop support to drop files and folders on to the File Browser window
- Cancel All button in Queue Manager window
- Warning added, if queueing large number of searches from the File Browser
- Added ability to force a queued search to start immediately, by double clicking it.
Version 0.7 (2007-07-15)
- Stability improvements:
  - Plugged some memory leaks
  - Updated to version 0.7.5.0 of the MediaInfo tag reading library
Version 0.6 (2007-06-10)
- Basic Search Queueing system added
- Script Cache DLL creation made compatible with running without admin privileges on Vista
- Fixed bug where the same path would be used for all search windows when opening multiple search windows from the file browser.
Version 0.5 (2007-05-27)
- Added File Browser
- Added Single-Instance behaviour. Only one instance of the application will now be allowed to run (others will have their command line parameters passed on to the first for execution).
- Added Window list menu.
- Added FreeCovers script, and updated Google script
- Improved detection of changed scripts for recreating the script cache
Version 0.4 (2007-04-27)
- Local Files Source now has the ability to specify the path to search for images in separately to the path to save images in. Set this either in the Local Files Source settings, or using the /localImagesPath command line parameter.
- Experimental authenticating proxy support (undocumented feature)
Version 0.3 (2007-04-09)
- Stability improvements:
  - Stop All should not cause the app to become unresponsive
  - Fixed bug where app could hang while previewing during a search
- If a search is performed for the same album and artist, but with different sources, a minimal search is now performed where only the newly selected sources are queried, and the existing results are kept in the same window.
- Added better error reporting. If a crash occurs, an errorlog.txt file will be produced.
Version 0.2 (2007-03-31)
- Added "Stop All" button
- Added ability to toggle display of thumbnail information to go below the thumbnail
- Enhanced auto download of full size images to give the options: Always, Never, and Only For Unknown Size
- Added an optional Maximum Image size restriction
- Fixed bug where Local Files source would lock the files it found, preventing them from being replaced
- Added checkbox for setting AutoClose behaviour in the UI.
- Added option to disable AutoClose behaviour from the command line: "/autoclose off"
- Added option to restrict the maximum number of results to return per source
Version 0.1 (2007-03-12)
- Initial Preview Release

Download

The latest releases can be found on the SourceForge download page

Alternatively, the following links should be kept up to date to redirect to download the latest version:

AlbumArtDownloaderXUI.exe (Installer. Recommended)
AlbumArtDownloaderXUI.zip (zip archive for those who don't like installers)

If you are running a 64 bit version of windows, then you will need the 64 bit version of the MediaInfo dll in order to use File Browser functionality. An installer which will put this in the Album Art Downloader XUI program folder is provided here:

AlbumArtDownloaderXUI-MediaInfoX64Upgrade.exe

Further Mirrors:

AlbumArtDownloaderXUI-0.6.exe (out of date)

Required libraries

.NET Framework 3.5