"Various" releases image downloads (Mid-term project) #96
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Please, provide some working VA release IDs together with the last working version, was it v1.0.17 ? |
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Releases that fails looks like this: I had difficulties finding a version that work (In the past it would do it because I have the images in the old directory). I tried 15 old versions (a lot of reset config, and new auth), no one can download artist images from these releases. Is only the "Various" album artist, others releases with more than one artist download images just fine (All variations, albums with plenty of different artists, multiple artist in one song, etc.) The cover download works in all kind of releases. |
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I was a bit confused at first reading the opening issue, even thought I was pretty sure that VA artist artwork download never worked in the past. I also run some tests anyway on foo_discogs and former foo_discogger versions to confirm it. |
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And now I'm confused, too. Ok, I found one version that download the art images from "various" releases. [v2.23-mod.09] |
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Hi lovecraft, I am testing this issue just now. Testing scenario...
Running
NEXT BUTTON:
WRITE TAGS BUTTON:
Test result:
Caching preference content:
This is the result of this particular test, no artist artwork has been saved. |
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Also repeating same test scenario just aftwards, same result. Console during test: I am quite sure those 22 artists in the cache are not fully loaded. It is not been until recent foo_discogger releases that multi-artist (not VA) support had been introduced, meaning that all artists are properly loaded (including artwork urls) by the time the write operation occurs. Could you repeat the test scenario that downloaded VA artwork after clearing the plugin memory cache/restarting foobar? |
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Sure, no problem In my default foobar. v2.0 beta 26 That makes me wonder, how can it download the first time I tried all images? I started to changed %DISCOGS_ARTIST_ID% to %ARTIST_ID%,%ARTISTS_ID%.etc...No luck and one crashed foobar. I put back %DISCOGS_ARTIST_ID% and add to the path '\artist_art' as i do in previous post, and it downloaded all the artists images like the time I tested the first time. It is all very strange.... I hope you could extract something from this, because I'm more confused than before. Last edit, I hope: I managed to reproduce it. With the files tagged, update the artist art from the menu. Delete the images downloaded and do the normal write tags, and now it downloads all the images again. Ufff, I started to think I was crazy..... :-P Well, more info, when you restart foobar the trick didn't work anymore, You must have to update again for normal write tags to download images |
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Sure! haha... This was the reason to remove the option 'Artist to fetch for' (which was crashing from time to time) to start focusing on solving multi-artists first. Unfortunately solving this issue, might take some time, and if properly done could lead to other new features, like embedding artist per track... for now I hacked the component just to do exactly that:
A proper solution will come to mind at some point, maybe by summer! |
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Luckily, I disabled auto-load (some times the first entry is not the correct one and I hate waiting to load, especially with artist with tons of releases, So I dodged that bullet. No problem, I have plenty of released to move to the new artist image structure system. It is very possible that summer comes and I haven't finish. I take a look at that release, the %ARTIST_NAME% is not a problem, in fact the new structure is to share images with biography script, and it has an internal BIO_ARTIST to structure the downloaded images, so it fits perfectly. Anyway, the "normal" releases can have me busy till summer without problem. Thanks for your time. |
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Your are welcome, thanks for taking the time to report, testing... |
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A pleasure. |
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I saw that you start to implement it.... Cool |
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With the latest version, "Various" releases are not downloading artist images
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