Re: [Muine] Album images

[Mark Phalan <mphalan o2 ie>]

Thanks for your help! I think I have a slightly better feel for how the
image fetching works.
Just one more quick question: What format is the covers.db in and what
tool (if any) could I use to extract the images from it.

Thanks,

Mark.

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 13:59, Lee Willis wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 12:32, Mark Phalan wrote:
> > Amazon.com shows the artist as:
> > Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch
> > 
> > Amazon.co.uk shows it as:
> > Angelo Badalamenti
> 
> Muine does pretty much the same as if you were to go to amazon.com and
> enter "artist name"[space]"album name" in the sarch box, select popular
> music and submit. In this case Amazon says:
> 
> "Music search results: we were unable to find exact matches for your
> search for  Angelo Badalamenti Mulholland Drive Soundtrack"
> 
> > > > My Name		-> Purple Rain
> > > > Amazon.co.uk	-> Purple Rain [SOUNDTRACK]
> > > > Amazon.com	-> Music from the Motion Picture "Purple Rain" [SOUNDTRACK]
> 
> This one should work - amazon takes me straight to the album - I'd need
> to do some digging ...
> 
> > Well this explains why the weezer album doesn't get an image.
> 
> Yep.
> 
> > The others then:
> > 
> > My Name         -> The Hits - Disc 1
> > Amazon.co.uk    -> The Hits Vol.1
> > Amazon.com      -> The Hits 1
> > My Artist	-> Prince
> > Amazon.com	-> Prince
> > 
> > Not sure why this wouldn't work.
> 
> "we were unable to find exact matches for your search for  prince the
> hits - disc 1"
> 
> > My Name         -> So Far... The Best Of
> > Amazon.co.uk    -> So Far... The Best Of
> > Amazon.com      -> So Far...The Best of Sinéad O'Connor
> > My Artist	-> Sinead O'Connor
> > Amazon.com	-> Sinead O'Connor
> > 
> > Is it possible that muine doesn't like the ' in O'Connor?
> 
> If you tweak CoverDatabase.cs and change > 0.6 to >= 0.6 I'd expect this
> one to get in.
> 
> > Does muine rely on exact matches for artist names?
> 
> Yes,it issues the artist name as part of the search to amazon, so if it
> doesn't match then amazon won't return any results.
> 
> Unfortunately, not sending the artist, tends to result in too many
> matches/wrong album covers :(
> 
> Lee
>