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Old 11-23-2016, 04:17 PM   #420 (permalink)
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Default Hooray for metadata projects!

After discovering a fun graphical Linux desktop applet music controller for gMusicbrowser I was reminded just how many of my digital albums lack cover artwork. I decided that it was finally time to tackle an automation solution for the problem. The popular Bliss application failed to install so I explored the fetch_cover.pm plugin for gMusicbrowser, but the retrieve-cover-from-Google-or-Discogs feature isn't working correctly in the present build.

Thankfully, after a bit of experimentation, I found that Clementine's Cover Manager was well-suited to the task. It dynamically retrieves all albums missing covers and applies the logical Discogs/Picard/Google matches to the albums.

Best of all, it has a user-configurable option to export covers to image files and to nest them in album folders so that gMusicbrowser will detect and apply the artwork to my library the next time I load the application!

10,536 of my albums were missing covers and the automation is running presently. I've duplicated my library as a precautionary measure in case anything goes amiss.

CAN YOUR HEART STAND THE EXCITEMENT?

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