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Mass-download cover art feature has disappeared?

Postby Psy-Q » Fri Jul 29, 2011 12:47 pm

I can't find that feature anywhere, and the "Cover Art" section of the settings has disappeared as well. It's still mentioned in the Subsonic wiki, but the option is not actually there.

The wiki also says there's a "Download missing cover art now" option:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/s ... e=Settings

But that doesn't seem to be available either. This is with the admin user, and it's on Subsonic 4.4. Any ideas what could be the issue?
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Postby supra92 » Fri Jul 29, 2011 6:01 pm

Cover Art is no longer its own discrete section within Settings -- it's changed by selecting an album and the clicking "Change" underneath the album art, which brings up results from Google Images search (very nicely done, btw, and preferable to the previous discogs method).

Indeed, the mass cover art download feature is gone -- but probably just as well. I tried it ONE time, after I had regenerated all my MP3s to a higher bitrate (from FLACs), to try to speed up the process of grabbing cover art....

... and oh holy cow. It was awful. The default choice that discogs came up with was either flatout wrong, or chose a poorly-sized image, or a poor quality image... 9 times out of 10. So I wound up having to go back and manually re-do 90% of my collection, and had to take the time to examine every album to determine which ones had to be redone. Much more difficult to tell whether an existing cover art is wrong, than to tell which one's haven't been done (thanks to that generic black icon with the music note on it).

Not worth it. Only way to have it done right is to pick 'em yourself -- otherwise it's a total mess. Probably why the feature got removed in the first place, honestly (but Sindre rocks, as always, for even trying that feature!)

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