How can i send the parameters for %artist% and %title% from foobar to the downloader. Ist there a plugin required?

i'd also like to suggest http://www.rateyourmusic.com/ for finding album art, it's far and away the most comprehensive collection of album art i've found, i find everything except super, super rare stuff on there.  fantastic resource.

import urllib
import re

def GetThumbs(artist,album):
    try:
        out = []
        query = album
        params = urllib.urlencode({'searchterm': query.encode('utf8')}) + "&type=l"
        f = urllib.urlopen("http://rateyourmusic.com/search?" + params)
        r = re.compile("<img[^>]*?alt=\"([^\"]*)\"[^>]*?src=\"/album_images[0-9]*/s([0-9]+).jpg\">",re.MULTILINE)
        text = f.read()
        iterator = r.finditer(text)
        for match in iterator:
            out.append([match.group(1),u"Unknown","http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s"+match.group(2)+".jpg",match.group(2)])
        return out
    except:
        return []

def GetCover(param):
    return "http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/o"+param+".jpg"

edit: I'm having some problems downloading certain coverart.
For example I tried downloading the cover for "Macka B - Sign Of The Times" which yields one correct result on amazon. When clicking the picture to save it everything seems fine, but the picture is a 1x1 pixel white gif (as far as Irfanview goes)

This occurs using the latest version of your amazon script and the following command prompt using foo_run:
"C:\Programme\foobar2000\coverart\coverart.exe" "%artist%" "%album%" "$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)%artist% - %album% - Front.jpg"
I've also downloaded other cover images which work fine, as far as I can tell this only happens with amazon

Indeed!
Thank you very much!

A little question: What is done, if the specified file (i.e. folder.jpg) already exists? Is it overwritten?
A little request: What about letting the uppopping window with covers hide the command-box and put out the errors and such not to the command-box, but rather to this window in some way? But this is only eyecandy...

I saw a few times, that a coverpreview was empty, with a black border and a few horizontal lines. If I see this again I'll report you the artist and album!

A million thank yous for this program, and for providing RateYourMusic support.  It all makes me very very happy. 

One question: with free registration at RateYourMusic, you sometimes have access to higher-resolution images.  Is it at all possible to integrate logging in to the script to get these bigger images?

edit: another request, can you make the program close automatically when the art is saved?

Quote from: topdownjimmy on 2006-06-01 18:05:42

edit: another request, can you make the program close automatically when the art is saved?

Sure, would it be good to have this as a commandline argument? Ie. coverart.exe --auto-close "artist"

when you guys say run coverart.exe from the commandline what do you mean?

I extracted it into a folder but how do i run the .exe from the "commandline"?

"C:\Program Files\fb2k\coverart\coverart.exe" "%artist%" "%album%" "E:\%artist%.%album%.folder.jpg"

"alert, error writing file"

thats the error message i get when i click on the cover image to save it to the folder designated

"alert, error writing file"

Does that result show an image in the thumbnail? Are you using the latest version of the Amazon script (It's at the very bottom of the first post.) If the problem persists i'll have another fiddle with the script when I get home tonight (It uses the Web Services API and the URLs it gives me are, for some reason, not very reliable

import urllib
import re

def GetThumbs(artist,album):
        out = []
        query = artist+" "+album
        params = urllib.urlencode({'qu': query.encode('utf8')}) + "&search_store=6&querytype=music&loc=109&dclksa=1"
        f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.buy.com/retail/searchresults.asp?" + params)
        r = re.compile("<img[^>]*src=\"http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/ad_images/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+).gif\">.*?<a[^>]*class=\"medBlueText\"><b>([^>]*)</b>",re.MULTILINE)
        r2 = re.compile("java script:largeIM\\(\'http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/large_images/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+).jpg\'\\)[^>]+><img[^>]*src=\"http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/prod_images/\\1/\\2.jpg\"[^>]*alt=\"([^\">]+)\"",re.MULTILINE)
        text = f.read()
        result = re.search(r2,text)
        if result!=None:
            return [[result.group(3),u"500x500","http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/prod_images/"+result.group(1)+"/"+result.group(2)+".jpg",[result.group(1),result.group(2)]]]
        iterator = r.finditer(text)
        for match in iterator:
            out.append([match.group(3),u"500x500","http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/prod_images/"+match.group(1)+"/"+match.group(2)+".jpg",[match.group(1),match.group(2)]])
        return out
def GetCover(param):
    return "http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/large_images/"+param[0]+"/"+param[1]+".jpg"

The commandline syntax is quite simple, just coverart.exe <Artist> <Album> <File to save to>
The second two parameters are optional, if a path is not specified it will prompt you with a Save As dialog.

coverart.exe "" "%album%" "$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)front.jpg"