[SCRIPT] fancy album art script

BobbyQ · 04-03-2008

got the same error, so I debugged the "/" problem.
The following version features a simple drag+drop plan for single pictures while creating an automatic backup of the original cover.

Just a quick and dirty hack ... I am too tired today. But it works (good job parena btw !!!)

parena · 04-03-2008

Updated to version 0.2 to fix the forward slash (/) bug. Really weird that it was giving problems. It works fine on my XP over here. Oh well...

Hope the drag and drop can get advanced, that'd be great. How does it work now? Just drop your albumart on top of the bat icon? Sorry for the people who have like 50 albums on their player.

Or can you drop multiple files on it? Do you, afterwards, have to copy all those files to your player or do you connect the player and drop the files from there onto the icon?

cwtim · 04-04-2008

it works with dragndrop (one by one), makes a new cover image and copies by it self.
i only dislike the black borders.

parena · 04-04-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwtim

it works with dragndrop (one by one), makes a new cover image and copies by it self.
i only dislike the black borders.

My version can use the background you want by giving it on the command line. However, you can alter BobbyQ's version by just setting the background you're using on the batch file itself, I guess. So, mine is automatic and does all your miniplayer's albumart, but BobbyQ's is a one by one version that now has a basis for expansion.

I'd personally recommend using my version for now, unless you don't want to do all the covers on your miniplayer. But you're welcome to contribute, of course!

shem · 04-04-2008

Can you post a step-by-step tutorial for windows users?
I'm a little confused about the steps to follow,i tried it for several times,i don't
know what i,m doing wrong, i don´t know nothing about MS-DOS commands
help me please !

cwtim · 04-04-2008

well, with drag and drop i get this error in dos.. (attachment)

and the cover still has black borders.. this is the line i edited in dragndrop.bat

tried them both

on pc.
IF EXIST "E:/Documenten van Tim/Mijn afbeeldingen/bg5.jpg" or
on meizu
IF EXIST "M:/PICTURES/ClearView/bg5.jpg"

BobbyQ · 04-04-2008

Hi guys, mith parena's permission I will make a BatMan plugin for this nifty gadget. But right now I have a sh**load of other things to do, so that will take a while.
I am not a fan of the "convert all my covers on the Meizu at once without any way of restoring it to the pristine state" strategy. So, I will try to do it in a "do it / revert it" style. I do have a couple of ideas but no time :-/

parena · 04-04-2008

Okay, all these errors with the drag and drop version I cannot do anything about, really, at the moment. Perhaps BobbyQ can give a hint or two.

For me it's not a problem that the thing would browse my miniplayer. The original album art is on your PC right? And having only some converted would look strange to me.

All I know is that my 'do them all' version works perfectly fine, also with a provided background. Just remember to call the meizu_albumart.bat file (after connecting your miniplayer and changing the paths to the correct locations) and not the other one. This is tested on XP only, though. I have no idea how Vista works with this kind of stuff. I'm not touching Vista. Hurts me enough to use XP.

And of course it's no problem to integrate this thing in BatMan. The more people can benefit, the better it is.

Pakkendu · 04-10-2008

Great feature!! Nice job!!

Works on Vista, just edit the .bat-files, right-click meizu_albumart.bat and run it as administrator, next the cmd-screen popping up will stay empty and will disappear when ready..

Only problem: when you change the meizu background, the border of the album art doesn't match anymore..

Question: is there a way to increase the transpercy of the reflection? I no programmer so the code in the .bat's is all gibberish to me

Sammy · 04-10-2008

Does it have to be on a black background for the reflecction to work?