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| Downloads: 3130
| Submitted: Jun 23 2008
Updated: Feb 9 2009
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Description:
Fetches album art from Discogs.com and Last.fm.
The built in Amarok Cover Manager only allows fetching from amazon.com, which may be fine if your music collection largely consists of popular music. But if large parts of your music collection are vinyl rips or releases on underground labels, searching discogs.com will yield much better results.
This script allows fetching album cover art for the currently playing track from discogs.com by clicking onto any track in the playlist and selecting:
"Fetch Covers" -> "For Currently Playing Track"
Already existing local album art (image files from the currently playing track's folder) as well as relevant album art from Last.fm and Discogs.com can then be browsed / saved / deleted.
Hint:
If the window is not opening in the foreground but started minimized with the taskbar item flashing, the KDE focus stealing prevention level doesn't allow focussing our window. This can be fixed by setting this:
System Settings > Window Behaviour > Advanced > Focus Stealing Prevention Level: None
Prerequisites:
- Qt4.4.X
- PyQt4 (Python bindings for QT)
Keyboard Shortcuts:
The GUI can completely be used through keyboard interaction.
Show CoverFetcher Tab: Alt+F
Show Configuration Tab: Alt+C
Show Log Tab: Alt+L
Save image: Alt+S
Delete image: Alt+D
Show next image: Alt+RightArrow
Show previous image: Alt+LeftArrow
(Un)fit cover to window: Alt+Z
Quit: Alt+F4 / Escape
Changelog:
Version 1.0-2009-02-09
- fixed: discogs.com changed their XML format, so I had to adapt as well
- added: a "search" button for better mouse interaction
Version 0.3.1.1-2008-08-17
- bugfix: program would hang if last.fm were not reachable
Version 0.3.1-2008-08-03
- added: naming schemes (fixed, album name, unambiguous id from discogs/last.fm)
Version 0.3-2008-07-16
- added: support for fetching covers from last.fm
- added: full unicode support
- added: configuration tab
- bugfix: script can now be stopped from Amarok Script Manager
- bugfix: marking text in logwindow will no longer cause text to be inserted in the wrong position
Version 0.2.1-2008-07-09
- GUI keyboard interaction improved
Version 0.2-2008-07-07
- GUI redesign
- many fixes & changes under the hood
Version 0.1-2008-06-23:
- initial release
License: GPL
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