Album art grabber not working

[lawrence2357]

Hi Lawrence,
Sorry, just saw this. Trying to attach my editeded covergrabber.php file -- I had to rename to covergrabber.txt to enable upload. Please back up your existing file before trying this one (after renaming back to .php) -- I don't want to break your system!
Cheers,
Jim

Thanks Jim unfortunately I'm a bit of a Linux numpty so how would I go about transferring it onto my Vortexbox and backing up the original file. I'm assuming I can copy it to a usb stick from my laptop but that's where my knowledge ends.

[bucketbiochemist]

Hi Lawrence,
Sorry, just saw this. Trying to attach my editeded covergrabber.php file -- I had to rename to covergrabber.txt to enable upload. Please back up your existing file before trying this one (after renaming back to .php) -- I don't want to break your system!
Cheers,
Jim

[lawrence2357]

Hello All,

I was able to get some cover art functionality back by editing the sacad settings in covergrabber.php. I reduced the target image size, and added the tolerance setting to allow for a broad range of image sizes.


$query = 'sacad "' . $q_artist . '" "' . $q_album . '" 600 -t50 ' . $folder . '/cover.jpg';


Not sure if it will work for others, it's working better for me than the default. I can supply my edited covergrabber.php if people are interested. Didn't see how to post a shared file here.


Best,

Jim

Hi Jim
thanks for this information is it still working for you?

I looked for this row in my covergrabber file but it didn't have anything that said sacad. There was a $query variable in the second (Google) stage but it did not have sacad in it.

Please could you paste a larger area of the file so that I can see where it goes?

Also it's not clear in your row where the ' and the " are in a '". Please could you help?

Thanks, Lawrence

[lawrence2357]

Check out some of my earlier posts on 'Vortexbox Alternatives'. I now no longer use VB at all, I have switched over to Open Mediaa Vault (OMV) with LMS installed under Docker (how to is in my earleir posts). OMV gives me LMS, NAS, Transmiaaion, Airsonic (=Subsonic) and a lot of other stuff. You can install a CD ripper onto my OMV boxes but I dont bother. I always rip using EAC and tag using MP3Tag. This allows me to tag CD's exactly the way I like it

You could take one of your current VB machines and install OMV to check it out. It runs under Debian 11, so there's no douibt your existing VB hardware will support it.

Thanks I'll look into that, the main thing I need is a ripper that automatically gets the best metadata it can find, rips and ejects without user intervention when a disc is inserted. Is that something that's easy to add?

[SeanMiddleton]

I've got a few boxes with Vortexbox installed so I don't want to lose my hardware. Is there a simple Linux based system I can install that will allow me to rip and play my CDs? Streaming online and internet radio (and LMS apps) would be a bonus.

Check out some of my earlier posts on 'Vortexbox Alternatives'. I now no longer use VB at all, I have switched over to Open Mediaa Vault (OMV) with LMS installed under Docker (how to is in my earleir posts). OMV gives me LMS, NAS, Transmiaaion, Airsonic (=Subsonic) and a lot of other stuff. You can install a CD ripper onto my OMV boxes but I dont bother. I always rip using EAC and tag using MP3Tag. This allows me to tag CD's exactly the way I like it

You could take one of your current VB machines and install OMV to check it out. It runs under Debian 11, so there's no douibt your existing VB hardware will support it.

[lawrence2357]

Why not just install EAC/MP3tag on a windows PC and rip everythnig on that ? You always had to check the rip in Vortex anyway to make sure it ripped correctly and used the correct artwork etc so in the end you arenet doing any more work than was necessary with the VB and a working ripper. MP3tag never fails to find and has many other useful attributes. I've given up on VB and just use OMV with LMS etc installed these days

I've got a few boxes with Vortexbox installed so I don't want to lose my hardware. Is there a simple Linux based system I can install that will allow me to rip and play my CDs? Streaming online and internet radio (and LMS apps) would be a bonus.

[SeanMiddleton]

I missed this post, if it works for me I'll be sooo pleased!! I just got another 2000 odd CDs to rip and manually adding the cover art is not something I have time for!

Why not just install EAC/MP3tag on a windows PC and rip everythnig on that ? You always had to check the rip in Vortex anyway to make sure it ripped correctly and used the correct artwork etc so in the end you arenet doing any more work than was necessary with the VB and a working ripper. MP3tag never fails to find and has many other useful attributes. I've given up on VB and just use OMV with LMS etc installed these days

[lawrence2357]

Hello All,

I was able to get some cover art functionality back by editing the sacad settings in covergrabber.php. I reduced the target image size, and added the tolerance setting to allow for a broad range of image sizes.


$query = 'sacad "' . $q_artist . '" "' . $q_album . '" 600 -t50 ' . $folder . '/cover.jpg';


Not sure if it will work for others, it's working better for me than the default. I can supply my edited covergrabber.php if people are interested. Didn't see how to post a shared file here.


Best,

Jim

I missed this post, if it works for me I'll be sooo pleased!! I just got another 2000 odd CDs to rip and manually adding the cover art is not something I have time for!

[bucketbiochemist]

Hello All,

I was able to get some cover art functionality back by editing the sacad settings in covergrabber.php. I reduced the target image size, and added the tolerance setting to allow for a broad range of image sizes.


$query = 'sacad "' . $q_artist . '" "' . $q_album . '" 600 -t50 ' . $folder . '/cover.jpg';


Not sure if it will work for others, it's working better for me than the default. I can supply my edited covergrabber.php if people are interested. Didn't see how to post a shared file here.


Best,

Jim

[lawrence2357]

Reviving this thread to see if anyone has been able to revive covergrabber.php.

I played with it and it appears to have the ability to query google images if amazon failed, however upon further inspection it used an outdated google API (ajax). Maybe someone here is familiar enough with the new google API (custom search?) to be able to revive?

I know bliss is an option, however I was happy with covergrabber in it's functional incarnation -- worked most of the time and free.

Reviving this thread again to see if anyone can have a go at changing covergrabber to work with the new Google API? It would be amazing if we could get it to work. I'm happy to do some legwork under guidance of someone more talented than myself as a recent upgrade to 2.5 had renewed my interest in getting my Liv Zen to work fully.

[Alaric]

I just upgraded to 2.5 - I was on 2.4 with Fedora 23 and that was adding art fine. So i think it MUST be possible. The how I'm not sure!

[bucketbiochemist]

Reviving this thread to see if anyone has been able to revive covergrabber.php.

I played with it and it appears to have the ability to query google images if amazon failed, however upon further inspection it used an outdated google API (ajax). Maybe someone here is familiar enough with the new google API (custom search?) to be able to revive?

I know bliss is an option, however I was happy with covergrabber in it's functional incarnation -- worked most of the time and free.

[Doris1997]

Understood

[SeanMiddleton]

You can add Bliss manually, in the VortexBox GUI on the left go to the bottom icon select “VortexBox Upgrade” and install Bliss!

But Bliss is subscription after 100 fixes.

[Doris1997]

You can add Bliss manually, in the VortexBox GUI on the left go to the bottom icon select “VortexBox Upgrade” and install Bliss!