trixmoto wrote:The trouble with this is that it is extremely specific. I'm not sure how easily this request would lend itself to the community as a whole. A lot of people like to have more than one image, for a start. But if multiple images are found, how is the script deciding which ones to delete? If there are multiple images in the directory, how is it deciding which one of those to select?
I appreciate your feedback and your thoughts on it. I do understand it was kind of a specific request. My thinking was the general idea of a first pass clean-up tool for a large music collections would be a fairly common desire. But I also understand that my idea of what that tools should do might not work well for others.
Perhaps a different approach would be something that would allow users to to chain together some of the existing functionality of the AlbumArtTagger. For example, in my case I generally run some combination of the following steps.
08. Remove artwork except first image
04. Extract artwork and resize external image
11. Embed artwork (convert link to tag) (with delete image files selected)
What would be really nice, but I realize it may be too ambitious, is the ability to pick a bunch of songs and have a script perform all those steps at once for each file in the directories where the music is located rather than having to select and run each step individually.
And if after doing that, if I end up with some albums that I have to manually redo, personally I am fine with that because this would get me so far into the clean-up process. It would be far easier to go back through a couple of dozen albums than it is to have to go through all the individual steps on a couple of hundred albums.
Again, I do appreciate your feedback. And I very much appreciate the tools you supply. They are great time savers as-is.
[quote="trixmoto"]The trouble with this is that it is extremely specific. I'm not sure how easily this request would lend itself to the community as a whole. A lot of people like to have more than one image, for a start. But if multiple images are found, how is the script deciding which ones to delete? If there are multiple images in the directory, how is it deciding which one of those to select?[/quote]
I appreciate your feedback and your thoughts on it. I do understand it was kind of a specific request. My thinking was the general idea of a first pass clean-up tool for a large music collections would be a fairly common desire. But I also understand that my idea of what that tools should do might not work well for others.
Perhaps a different approach would be something that would allow users to to chain together some of the existing functionality of the AlbumArtTagger. For example, in my case I generally run some combination of the following steps.
08. Remove artwork except first image
04. Extract artwork and resize external image
11. Embed artwork (convert link to tag) (with delete image files selected)
What would be really nice, but I realize it may be too ambitious, is the ability to pick a bunch of songs and have a script perform all those steps at once for each file in the directories where the music is located rather than having to select and run each step individually.
And if after doing that, if I end up with some albums that I have to manually redo, personally I am fine with that because this would get me so far into the clean-up process. It would be far easier to go back through a couple of dozen albums than it is to have to go through all the individual steps on a couple of hundred albums.
Again, I do appreciate your feedback. And I very much appreciate the tools you supply. They are great time savers as-is.