Comments on: Album Art Downloader XUI: batch-download missing album art

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:58:37 +0000

Two big problems with this program (otherwise its great).

1.) It has a BIG memory leak problem (at least on XP). It starts out using a reasonable amount of memory then chews up more and more with each search–and gets slower and slower (especially a problem if you are using the queueing process). Basically, you need to restart the program every dozen searches or so.

2.) I wish you had the option of simply writing the file out as the Artist name + Album name (automatically I mean, I know you can do it manually after each search). With a fallback that if there’s no album name it writes the file as the Artist name alone, and a second fallback that if there’s a file existing with that name then it prompts you or goes with an overwrite default.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:30:09 +0000

So, if I have some of my mp3s with album art saved within tags, can this program detect it?

By: Rogerebert

Rogerebert — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:30:29 +0000

Great find. I just finnished a month long project using Media Monkey to fix tags and art, then went to discogs for the hard to find ones. This would have saved me hours.

By: Album Art Downloader - Ken’sTechnology Blog

Album Art Downloader - Ken’sTechnology Blog — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:34:19 +0000

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By: Timbuctoo

Timbuctoo — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:35:55 +0000

Seems to be crashing with the standard Microsoft error message below.

I have .Net framework installed on XP with SP2. Can anyone help?

“Album Art Downloader has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.”

By: Samer

Samer — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:15:59 +0000

@Ken,
Check out my reviews of IArtwork and ITunes Art Importer, which I mention above.
http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/02/18/iartwork-downloads-album-art-in-itunes/
http://www.freewaregenius.com/2007/11/11/itunes-art-importer/

By: ken adams

ken adams — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:37:32 +0000

Have you ever tried IArtwork? this is the best that I have seen. It works with ITunes, and will look at everything in ITunes and update automatically. Unfortunately, it has not been working lately. I am hoping that you will try this and see if the program is no longer available, or if it is simply something on my end. you can get it from: http://iartwork.net/ Please let me know what you find.

Thank you,

By: Tom K

Tom K — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:40:43 +0000

I literally was just trying to update my album art this morning when I saw this post. Great timing, FG!

By: cicom3nd3z

cicom3nd3z — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:09:15 +0000

I like foobar and this is a perfect companion. Thanks!

By: pedro

pedro — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:34:28 +0000

Great, just what i needed, freewaregenius.com did it again!