CD Art Display RC4 Build 365

[Carlos]

CAD RC4 Build 365 (04 Jul 2006)

- Added the third independent line! (*)

(*) now you can set 3 different lines each one with its own font, font size, font color etc.!

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc4b365.zip

:)

[noroom]

Carlos, could it be that having only the ID3-Tag option to read covers from, that it always shows the same image as the cover?

For some reason it doesn't seem to be updating the temp file generated for the cover, and as a result, it shows the cover of the first song you play all the time.

Can you look into this? This problem has been present for a couple of build now. Apparently, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't...

[FuNiOnZ]

Is there a possibility of including the ability to read mp3's that have images embedded in them already? (ala iTunes, WMP10, etc)

Nice release by the way :D

[Carlos]

CAD already reads ID3 cover.

See "CP>Read cover".

[noroom]

Carlos, did you notice my post up there? ^

I noticed that when I drag an image from Firefox to CAD, it seems CAD can't do anything with the cover anymore. By that I mean I can't open the cover's folder, I can't view the cover, I can't save the cover as.

I think CAD forgets to update all those options with the new dragged cover information, and that's why they don't do anything. They think there's no cover.

And I think it would be a good idea to disable those options when there's no cover. That way users won't click them in vain.

[Carlos]

noroom,

1) ID3 cover: I did a test and it worked; but maybe CAD can't read some ID3 picture because the way it was embedded. Make some tests please like remaking the song tag including its cover and see if it works. I've been using the freeware mp3Tag and I never had a problem.

2) as far as I know CAD won't recognize a file dragged from FireFox. Just from IE. You have to save the image first.

[noroom]

It recognizes the image dragged from Firefox just fine over here. It shows it as the song cover, it saves the image in the covers folder and it shows it as my WLM DP.

[Carlos]

Now I unserstand... :)

Fixed:

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc4b373.zip

[Hop Sing]

Thx for the third line!!! :D :D

Hop Sing

[noroom]

Carlos, the notifier still gets album titles like "II" and "S&M" wrong. :(

[Carlos]

noroom,

The first time you've reported the issue I did some changes and tests and all worked.

Can you send me your "skin.ini"? Thanks.

[Carlos]

noroom,

Ops! I've found the error. A value that I forgot to update.

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc4b377.zip

[Mangix]

there's a bug in CAD which doesn't launch foobar2000 when the option is set to make it launch once CAD starts up.

[Carlos]

Mangix,

Have you tried the last build?

That issue was fixed some days ago. Take a look here:

http://closetosoftware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=57

[Mangix]

yeah i'm using build 377 and when i click the CAD shortcut, CAD opens up but foobar doesn't.

also i just found another bug with the same build. if i open up CAD, wait a while, and then if i open up foobar, CAD immediatly exits for no reason.

[Carlos]

Check the foobar2000 path on CAD CP and the following build:

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc4b379.zip

[oberststen]

Carlos, could it be that having only the ID3-Tag option to read covers from, that it always shows the same image as the cover?

For some reason it doesn't seem to be updating the temp file generated for the cover, and as a result, it shows the cover of the first song you play all the time.

Can you look into this? This problem has been present for a couple of build now. Apparently, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't...

Generally it happens when you have a cover only in the ID3, and then change to another song that also have only the cover in the ID3

[Carlos]

Generally it happens when you have a cover only in the ID3, and then change to another song that also have only the cover in the ID3

I did a simple test with two files with ID3 cover and it worked fine.

But I need to know:

1) Can you repeat the issue with the same song always?

2) Have you tried to remake the tag just to see if it starts to work properly?

3) Can you check the CAD Temp folder and see if you can manually delete the cover after the issue?

[oberststen]

Generally it happens when you have a cover only in the ID3, and then change to another song that also have only the cover in the ID3

I did a simple test with two files with ID3 cover and it worked fine.

But I need to know:

1) Can you repeat the issue with the same song always?

2) Have you tried to remake the tag just to see if it starts to work properly?

3) Can you check the CAD Temp folder and see if you can manually delete the cover after the issue?
I did again a few tests and now it worked fine =\ but what I found was that if the mp3 doesn't have ID3v2 enabled it really slow down all the PC

[Carlos]

I did again a few tests and now it worked fine =\ but what I found was that if the mp3 doesn't have ID3v2 enabled it really slow down all the PC

I did some tests with ID3v1 tag files only and all went fine.

Please, try to find the song that causes the slow down then make some tests: (1) if the issue always occurs with that song and (2) remake the ID3v1 tag.

New build (but it won't affect the ID3v1 read procedure):

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc4b382.zip

[Diddeleedoo]

Have had a play with CD Art Display MediaMonkey compatiblity and I just wanted to say I sit here with a big :D .

[oberststen]

I did some tests with ID3v1 tag files only and all went fine.

Please, try to find the song that causes the slow down then make some tests: (1) if the issue always occurs with that song and (2) remake the ID3v1 tag.

New build (but it won't affect the ID3v1 read procedure):

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc4b382.zip
It used to be one song, Moby - Soul To Love, but I just activate the ID3v2 and everything worked right again, but there is a song that is doing the same, i will search for it and do some research

[Carlos]

oberststen,

Thank you for your feedback.

It seems that it's an ID3 tag issue. There's a chance that some songs are not properly tagged. I have lots of songs with only ID3v1 tag and they play just fine.

I'm using the freeware mp3Tag.

[oberststen]

i had always used winamp to edit ID3 tag, and now I'm using iTunes (to add cover art too), but those mp3 are very old.. maybe a bug of an old version of winamp?

But I found another bug, as I told you, I use iTunes to add cover art to the ID3v2, some songs that have cover were not showing anything, so I opened the Winamp ID3 tag editor, and those songs don't have ID3v1 enabled. After changing some things, without reason, iTunes stop reading the cover, so I readded it, and now it worked right at CAD, but why iTunes readed them before? just iTunes don't know how to tag correctly the mp3, or it is actually a bug?

[ravebot]

I have the latest build (382). The pattern for "read cover" and "save downloaded cover" is %coverfolder%%artist%-%album%.jpg. If a song does not have a cover attached, then it's Ok. But if the cover already exists, CAD does not recognize it and starts a new search. Then I see an error message: "Cannot rename xxxx . A file with the name you specified already exists. Specify a different file name." I don't know if there's a bug or I'm doing something wrong.

[Mangix]

i had always used winamp to edit ID3 tag, and now I'm using iTunes (to add cover art too), but those mp3 are very old.. maybe a bug of an old version of winamp?

But I found another bug, as I told you, I use iTunes to add cover art to the ID3v2, some songs that have cover were not showing anything, so I opened the Winamp ID3 tag editor, and those songs don't have ID3v1 enabled. After changing some things, without reason, iTunes stop reading the cover, so I readded it, and now it worked right at CAD, but why iTunes readed them before? just iTunes don't know how to tag correctly the mp3, or it is actually a bug?iTunes is know not to follow the ID3 standard in some cases. iTunes also has some problems with reading 2.4 tags. i believe it's only when they are encoded with UTF-8 only but there could be other reasons.

Winamp, unlike iTunes, correctly follows the ID3 standard so it is not likely that Winamp is the culprit.

[ravebot]

I did a few tests (see my previous post) and now I know that the pattern used for "read" and "download cover" is not wrong. I know that the error appears only for songs without tags. If CAD has already downloaded a cover for a song with no tags, when that song is played again, it's searching again for a cover instead of using the existing one. Then comes the error message "Cannot rename..." .

[Carlos]

I have iTunes installed to test CAD and in fact iTunes changed my ID3!

Now I test iTunes with just some sample songs to avoid that.

In resume, iTunes is not a good program to add cover to files. iTunes is nice if you use iTunes for everything so you won't mind to have your tags changed to a non standard ID3.

Anyway, I'll see what I can do about songs without tags at all.

Thank you all for your great feedback! :)

[Mangix]

in the latest build of CAD(183), there's a annoying bug. if i kill explorer(using Task Manager) and then restart it(using Task Manager), then CAD won't appear on the desktop anymore.

edit:also something else i noticed. when i close foobar2000, CAD doesn't exit like it's supposed to.

[Carlos]

in the latest build of CAD(183), there's a annoying bug. if i kill explorer(using Task Manager) and then restart it(using Task Manager), then CAD won't appear on the desktop anymore.

edit:also something else i noticed. when i close foobar2000, CAD doesn't exit like it's supposed to.

1) you're probably using CAD pinned to desktop, right? It's a known issue that I was not able to find an easy fix.

2) please try the new build with improved code for foobar2000 0.9x:

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc4b384.zip

[Mangix]

i see. oh well.

as for the foobar thing, CAD still doesn't exit. i think that when i kill explorer, it makes CAD go into "Not Responding" mode.

[Carlos]

But does CAD exit when you don't kill Explorer?

[LANJAN]

Hi there!
I am having two problems with the Version I downloaded today.

First I don't get the program to take the front.jpg file if there is a back.jpg file present.

I did put the alternative file to the top of the list and I put *front*.jpg in the alternative file input box.
But still it seems to load the file that comes first in the alphabet.

The second problem is more a request:
I'd like to be able to save every downloaded album cover not in one universal cover folder but in the album folder the current album is located in.
It would be neat to have that since many home theatre programs have the functionality to display covers in the album folder.


-LANJAN

[Carlos]

Please start using the last build:

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc4b384.zip

If you're using Winamp just go to CAD "Control Panel>Read cover" then "Control Panel>Download" to configure it as you want.

If you don't figure out how to do it let me know.

[LANJAN]

Thanks!
I got it to work.
But I'd like to mention two things:

First the main download link should probably point to the newest release.
And second:
Setting the download preferences is not really easy. You should have different tags for setting the directory and the name of the image.
I thought the %songfolder% would add the songfolder in the pictures name and since I didn't want that I removed it which resulted in every picture being saved in the CAD folder.
Maybe you should seperate the location and the filename selection into two input boxes.

Other than that: really neat tool.

-LANJAN

[Mangix]

But does CAD exit when you don't kill Explorer? yeah

[oberststen]

I found a bug, this is with Display Picture thing.

I have a default picture, so when I hear a song without cover it shows the image without problem, but if I pause the song, and then play it again it shows the "nocover.png" instead of continue showing my default picture

[Carlos]

LANJAN

Regarding the tags (like %songfolder%): CAD tries to follow the Winamp ATF convention. In addition, the help file will be updated so it'll be easier to understand.

Mangix

Thanks!

oberststen

Just replace the original "nocover.png" of the current skin with your desired picture (png format).

[Carlos]

////Topic closed due newer CAD build.