PerfectTUNES discussion

[Audio_ELF]

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No need for a delete - just select that album again and search for art again - it will then overwrite the original

That only works if it can find some artwork. Some of my CDs have the wrong artwork and PerfectTunes doesn't find anything suitable.

Eloise

[MaDxCrEaM]

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Actually I now see that the Folder.jpg was saved, but PerfectTunes Album Art is saying it has no album artwork after I re-start it. I'm saving just as Folder.jpg not embedding it into the Flacs

[MaDxCrEaM]

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Does this not work across networked devices? Trying to run this, files are on my nas, and album art isn't being saved. Yes I have privileges to read and write.

[Spoon]

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Updated today to beta 9

[Markus@Illustra]

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PerfectTUNES beta 8 stopped working. "Period has expired". But on the main page you are offered "partake in this testing".

[CJ1045]

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A couple of suggestions / feature requests on the Album Art part...

First, is it possible to implement a "delete all art" from this album function - useful where the wrong art work has been embedded; maybe also the button deletes any .jpg / .png in the same directory.

Eloise

No need for a delete - just select that album again and search for art again - it will then overwrite the original

CJ

[Audio_ELF]

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A couple of suggestions / feature requests on the Album Art part...

First, is it possible to implement a "delete all art" from this album function - useful where the wrong art work has been embedded; maybe also the button deletes any .jpg / .png in the same directory.

Second, when fixing missing art, couple you add an "import from file" button. Useful if you already have the artwork and/or the web search isn't finding anything and you've scanned it manually.

Generally looks and works great though.

Eloise

[nvm13]

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Thanks for the help Spoon. I actually realized after stepping away from the computer why PerfectTunes was having issues with those files. The server I have is a Windows Home Server V1 and back in the early days I had a hard drive go bad in it which corrupted a couple of music files. Of course I ignored the complaints the server was giving me until PerfectTunes ran into a wall trying to scan them. I immediately remember when backing up my server that it would always complain about not backing up those files, but I would ignore that too out of ignorance thinking that WHS was making it up. But PerfectTunes confirmed when it locked up trying to scan the files that they were indeed corrupt, so I finally just deleted them. I figure two files out ~71,000 is a minor loss. Plus I'll probably reacquire the files again someday. Anyway, after deleting the files PerfectTunes has been running excellently! I think the Album Art part is great. Has made a big difference when my receiver displays the album art on my TV. It isn't all blurry anymore. I'd still like to suggest making it possible to select multiple folders at a time rather than having to select 1 at a time for scanning purposes. The reason is, I am sure I am not the only one who has a large music collection and I have my music organised in folders by artist and then in folders by album that have the actual music files in them. I have been adding my music to PerfectTunes to scan in chunks so that the scanning process doesn't get stopped while I am a quarter of the way through just so I have to start all over. I have been adding, instead, my artist folders to PerfectTunes scan folders one at a time with the current setup of the program because I cannot select multiple folders at a time. One other suggestion, it would be cool if there was an option to fix the album art regardless if there is low resolution or missing album art. The reason is, I use a couple other programs for the tagging of my music, but PerfectTunes gets so much better looking album art (and much better quality) than the other programs that it would be nice to be able to just have a button that says "Fix All" in the all albums option that would do what the auto fix does for when there is missing or low resolution album art. Again thanks for the cool solftware. Been interesting trying it out and look forward to the final product.

[Spoon]

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That problem album, copy to your local computer hdd then see if perfecttunes will scan it. If it cannot we are interested in having a look at those files.

[nvm13]

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Found a solution to my problem. Manually added the folders with albums until the program hung again. Uninstalled the program, dleted all of the data files, and reinstalled. Then skipped the folder with the problem files and it seems to be working fine now. Oh well at least it was just 1 album. Kind of a pain but the program seems to be working OK now.

[Spoon]

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>My music is stored on an external network server.

I have heard of such during conversions, it is possible your security software is breaking the reading of files...

[Spoon]

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>But the matching of 1500 albums without art took seven days. Is that to be expected?

If it has to write the art to a network drive and the files are FLAC yes, as the whole flac file needs reading and writing as the tag is at the front in flac.

It is expected that the list of albums requiring fixes drops as you do the fixes. You can add your own cover buy clicking the 'Fix' button and wait for the internet search to offer some.

[nvm13]

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Hi,
Been trying out the program. Really like the album art part. Was running fine for a while, until for some reason it hits a song while listening and just hangs. Tried selecting a different folder and still hangs. I am talking about perfecttunes and not my computer. My music is stored on an external network server. I am using the latest beta build. I also have a suggestion of instead of the option to select one folder in the folders to listen to dialog it would be nice to be able to select a few at a time. That way for us with large libraries we could break it up into smaller chunks which would make it quite manageable. Really like the program and the concept is there, but have gotten frustrated because now it doesn't work at all. Thanks for the help.

[Johninoz]

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Hi!

I have to say that PerfectTunes has been a great help with my collection! However, I have noticed a few things that are frustrating.

When I first did the scan of 60,000 songs it took PT about 24 hours of listening. I assume that is normal. But the matching of 1500 albums without art took seven days. Is that to be expected?

Also, after the first matching I went through and tried to fix any album for which a match could not be found. I think PT and I got about 1400 of them. However, I ran the program again and the count dropped to 1279. I repated the manual fixing again and ran it again. It dropped to 870. I ran it again and it dropped to 550. Again and it dropped to 287. The problem is that I am manually fixing the same albums over and over and PT is automatically fixing many of the same.

Is this to be expected?

Finally, if the matching is incomplete, can I add covers manually? In many of the cases above I had already done that in ITunes but PT doesn't seem to recognise that.

Thanks again for the great work!

[Spoon]

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On the download thread yes.