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Originally posted by Remy:[..]

When I started my bootleg collection (the lossy one) I already used Foobar so I downloaded the front-cover automatically every time, and named it "cover.jpg" so it would always work.

Did Windows have a habit to resize your cover.jpg to 200x200, or did it leave it at the original size?

The reason for that was that to set up Foobar properly, it needed all the artwork. The thing is, Windows decided to resize them back to 200x200, meaning the artwork was all pixelated and blocky - which looked completely stupid. iTunes can do the artwork and embeds it properly, but I don't want to use iTunes to do that all the time. One program to do everything would be a much better idea.

I tried Folder.jpg and it did the same thing. Maybe setting as read-only might do it.

Remy

16 years

Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

Did Windows have a habit to resize your cover.jpg to 200x200, or did it leave it at the original size?

The reason for that was that to set up Foobar properly, it needed all the artwork. The thing is, Windows decided to resize them back to 200x200, meaning the artwork was all pixelated and blocky - which looked completely stupid. iTunes can do the artwork and embeds it properly, but I don't want to use iTunes to do that all the time. One program to do everything would be a much better idea.

I tried Folder.jpg and it did the same thing. Maybe setting as read-only might do it?

Windows didn't have any habits, I saved all the covers at the highest possible resolution.

drewhiggins

16 years

Originally posted by Remy:[..]

Windows didn't have any habits, I saved all the covers at the highest possible resolution.

Must just be me then.

Check your email as well - something there for you.

Risto

16 years

For commercial albums there are scripts to use Amazon for albumart sources . And I found the complete u2 bootleg cover archive on the U2Hub, will share that one when I have time (this weekend maybe).

What might help a lot is adding this line to the ChronFlow preferences (Album sources):

$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)cover.jpg

Because a lot of U2Start bootlegs have that file

Risto

16 years

BTW just found a better MSN plugin:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=31609&view=findpost&p=624439

Then you can add the album to the the message as well.

Example

Artist: %artist% '('%album%')'

Remy

16 years

Originally posted by Risto:BTW just found a better MSN plugin:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=31609&view=findpost&p=624439

Then you can add the album to the the message as well.

Example
[..]

I also have the album included in my MSN name, along with the year etc.

Risto

16 years

Yeah is used to as well, but the new WLM forced the title - artist format

But with the cheat above it is still possible.

Only the MSN Music link is not returning any hits but i can live with that lol

Remy

16 years

Originally posted by Risto:Yeah is used to as well, but the new WLM forced the title - artist format But with the cheat above it is still possible.

Only the MSN Music link is not returning any hits but i can live with that lol

I have MSN Music links disabled in MSN (hooray for apatch.org), so I don't care about that either. And yes, I noticed about the force, thanks for the fix then, seems like I need to change that too

Risto

16 years

Originally posted by Remy:[..]

I have MSN Music links disabled in MSN (hooray for apatch.org), so I don't care about that either. And yes, I noticed about the force, thanks for the fix then, seems like I need to change that too

Strange thing: you can still change the format but it will be only changed on YOUR side, your contacts will still see the TITLE - ARTIST thing

Not very consistent, luckily we can cheat lol

drewhiggins

16 years

Originally posted by Remy:[..]

I have MSN Music links disabled in MSN (hooray for apatch.org), so I don't care about that either. And yes, I noticed about the force, thanks for the fix then, seems like I need to change that too

Apatch works wonders. Stupid ads in Messenger slowing everything down.

And thanks for the WLM album art plugin too - yet another reason to grab artwork.

Risto

16 years

GreaseMonkey allows you to add functionality to sites on the net. You can inject HTML, javascript, css, anything.

There are scripts for thousands of sites like GMail. For handy scripts see http://userscripts.org/scripts . And for a random Top 10 scripts see http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/top-10-greasemonkey-scripts-to-improve-your-productivity.html .

Me playing with GreaseMonkey for firefox

Risto's Sidebar

Invalid url 'http://[IMG]http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/7245/sidebarv.th.png[/IMG]'

I am just discovering the possibilities and will keep you updated if i find more interesting scripts

drewhiggins

16 years

I love GreaseMonkey - it's one of the best extensions for Firefox.

Have you ever tried messing around with userChrome and userScript for Firefox? You can pretty much build a new Firefox out of it.

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