Shoutbox

MSN Album Cover is a plugin that will change your display picture with an Album Cover whenever you play a song.


screenshot

Supports:

• Winamp with "Now Playing for MSN"(or similar) plugin
  
• iTunes

Features:

• Read album cover from ID3Tag and saves in local directory
  
• Download album cover from internet
  
• Read song directory for album cover
  
• Default display picture settings (when no album cover can be found) [screenshot]
  
• Option to enable or disable automatic downloads of album covers [screenshot]
  
• Auto-updating

[download]
[website]



Install help:
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[*]Install gen_msn (if you don't have it yet) [download here]
[*]Install Messenger Plus! (if you don't have it yet) [download here]
[*]Download and install MSN Album Cover (open it with Messenger Plus! script installer).
[*]You can see / change the default display picture (when no album cover is available) with "/msnac" or with using the Messenger Plus! menu. [screenshot]
[*]Enjoy.
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Feel free to ask me for info or help


[UPDATE]
0.9.0
- Read album cover from ID3Tag and saves in local directory (for performance).
- Code revamp, some parts have a slight speed improvement.
0.8.7
- Added option to enable or disable downloads of album covers.
- Default DP will be displayed when song is stopped.
- Fixed naming (caused difficult update), sorry for the trouble ^_^



Regards, KilianM

This would be even cooler if it automatically applied the Album Cover to the Song File and only downloaded the cover if the song was already missing a cover.  Great work though !

This is a pretty awesome script! Good work man!

Everything works well, but a bit of feedback:

1. The display picture doesn't return to default when the music is stopped/closed. The debugger shows that the previous album directory is searched in, even though the artist and album are undefined:

code:

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Artist: undefined
Album: undefined
Dir:C:\<...>\Fort Minor\The Rising Tied\
Default local albumcover found, loading..
Default local albumcover loaded.

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2. ScriptInfo.xml :

code:

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<Name>MSN Album Cover</Name>

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3. Is it possible to get this to work with SHOUTcast internet radio? This will mean that the art can't be saved, and the album cover search has to be done with title and artist. Also, the SHOUTcast titles will need to be split by themselves for searching, because Winamp receives both the title and artist information as one title string from the radio server.

That's about it. Again, well done on the script!

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Originally posted by Kobol
This would be even cooler if it automatically applied the Album Cover to the Song File and only downloaded the cover if the song was already missing a cover.

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Nice idea! adding it to my TODO list

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Originally posted by phalanxii
1. The display picture doesn't return to default when the music is stopped/closed. The debugger shows that the previous album directory is searched in, even though the artist and album are undefined

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I'll look into it, thanks!

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Originally posted by phalanxii
2. ScriptInfo.xml

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Originally posted by phalanxii
3. Is it possible to get this to work with SHOUTcast internet radio?

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Hmm, might be bit hard, but if I got some free time I'll see what I can do.
I beleive not all shoutcast streams push the artist-title, and format can be different also.


Regards, Kilian

awsome script....good work.....works like a charm

how can i edit this to only display *.jpg in the local folder? cause it downloading from amazon for no reason and cluttering my mp3 folders is annoying :/

edit: my covers are stored as 00-foldername.jpg

I would love this script, if there was an option to turn of automatic searching for songs without images. Secondly, would it be possible to script this to also look in the MP3 itself, for the art? As I often store the art in the MP3 aswell as have the "Folder.jpg" for my Album Folders (which does no good for my loose songs)

UPDATE
0.8.7
- Added option to enable or disable downloads of album covers.
- Default DP will be displayed when song is stopped.
- Fixed naming (caused difficult update), sorry for the trouble ^_^


Reading album information from the mp3 is a bit harder since it has to be done through extern DLL loading, I didn't get this working so far.

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Originally posted by KilianM
UPDATE
0.8.7
- Added option to enable or disable downloads of album covers.
- Default DP will be displayed when song is stopped.
- Fixed naming (caused difficult update), sorry for the trouble ^_^


Reading album information from the mp3 is a bit harder since it has to be done through extern DLL loading, I didn't get this working so far.

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How you toggle the Downloading On/Off?

And it's understandable about the Cover from the MP3 thing. Though, I must say, this seems to work nicely. (apart from not knowing how to turn DL off )

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Originally posted by Mizery_Made
How you toggle the Downloading On/Off?

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You can either use the Messenger Plus! menu (the Messenger Plus icon in chatscreens or contactlist) -> MSN Album Cover -> Options
Or you can use "/msnac" in a chatscreen.

Kilian