Album Art Manager

Nice add-on but it would be great to implement a function to show the cover^^

it would be great if you could display the cover, maybe in the “Service Pane Bottom” because the idea of your ad don is nice but to display the cover in songbird would be nicer^^

Hey there, you might want to rename this album art extension to maybe displays album art… cause i was confused when I saw this one and your add on that allows you to get a cover off the amazon site sharing the same name… Thanks for both of these… they will come in handy!

thanks that’s what I meant.

But it seems to doesn’t work right now. Because it got the same name as your other add-on the old add-on get overwritten.
and I can’t display the add-on in the Service Pane

Big Thanks.

But I think calling “Now Playing” is not really good because “Now Playing List” uses the same name in songbird, i think this could leads to conflicts.
But thanks for developing :=).

I don’t have the option to display “Now Playing” in any service pane. Using 0.4rc2 on WinXP. I used to have both this and the conflicting Now Playing List add-on, but I uninstalled both, reinstalled this, and it still doesn’t show up as an option in the service pane.

Where does this take the album art from, and where does it store it? In the file’s tag? As folder.jpg?

Also, I have a single folder full of all my album art, with the artists and album titles in the filenames. It’d be nice to be able to specify a default folder to look in for album art, matching artists and album titles in the filenames.

Thanks for working on this vital component.

Same here under Linux, there is no “Now Playing” option.

It looks like nice, but it doesn’t work with files from usb-storage devices. it would be nice!

It doesn’t work with Win XP and Songbird 0.4. The add-on doesn’t appear in the display menu.

That’s a shame, this add-on looks great. I hope that it’ll be fixed very soon.

im sad about this but it doesnt work with SB 0.4, WinXP SP2
i used version 0.7 and the service pane and the manager doesnt work. i hope the addon will work after some fixes
greetz ALU

The extension doesn’t work for me on WINXP SP2, Songbird 0.4 and Album Art Manager 0.7.

Nothing appears in the View menu and when I click on Album Art Manager in the tools menu, a window appears with “Covers” written in it but nothing else.

In my error console, I have 2 things that seems to be related to your add-on:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception… “Invalid ClassID or ContractID” nsresult: “0x80570017 (NSERRORXPCBADCID)” location: “JS frame :: file:///D:/Sauvegardes/Songbird/extensions/AlbumArtManager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js :: :: line 11” data: no]
Failed to load XPCOM component: D:SauvegardesSongbirdextensionsAlbumArtManager@songbirdnest.comcomponentssbAlbumArtService.js

I hope you’ll manage to fix this.

Hello Stevo
here is my errorlog
the first:
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Warning: reference to undefined property Components.classes[‘@songbirdnest.com/songbird-album-art-service;1’]
Source File: chrome://albumartmanager/content/albumartmanager.js
Line: 101
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and the second

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Error: Components.classes[‘@songbirdnest.com/songbird-album-art-service;1’] is undefined
Source File: chrome://albumartmanager/content/albumartmanager.js
Line: 101
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i hope this is useful ;)
I thank you for your hard work on this addon
regards ALU

Hello,

same for me with Ubuntu 7.10 and 0.4rc2
Furthermore I am not able to add Covers.

Here my error log

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception… “Invalid ClassID or ContractID” nsresult: “0x80570017 (NSERRORXPCBADCID)” location: “JS frame :: file:///home/xxx/.songbird1/aj1n9089.default/extensions/AlbumArtManager @songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js :: :: line 11” data: no]

and Failed to load XPCOM component: /home/xxx/.songbird1/aj1n9089.default/extensions/AlbumArtManager @songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js

Thank you. Version 0.8 works on Mac OS X now.

Before, I forgot that this addon shares the same name with Now Playing List, so I couldn’t figure out how to get the pane to show. But it turns out that I just have to click on “Now Playing” again to show this instead of the list extension.

Great, version 0.8 works on WinXP.

I think that you could improve some things:

• the track notification is written in dark gray and the background is in light gray : it’s not easy to read. You should use other colors to improve the contrast.
• the information of the track being played displayed under the cover in the service pane are written in black on a dark gray background, it is really difficult to read. Furthermore, he font is too big.

Otherwise, this is a great extension, thank you very much.

very nice work stevo !
now the plugin works perfect!
i ever missd covers in songbird !

here i had a couple ideas for you :
→preferences for your display popup
→read covers from ID3Tags

greetz ALU

With the 0.4 final release, Album Art Manager 0.0.8 appears to be working for me (WinXP), though it still does conflict with Now Playing List.

Some further suggestions:

• Make the art stretch to the size of the service pane.
• Optionally filter the “Get Album Art” window to show only albums with missing art.
• Right-click functionality: right-click on any song in a playlist to “Get Art for This Album.”
• Optionally retrieve art automatically when tracks with missing art begin to play.
• Toggle follow cursor / follow playing.

And a bug:

• When I choose "Get artwork from File," the right-click menu doesn't disappear when the explorer dialog pops up.

Thanks for your continued work on this and the speedy updates!

• Optionally retrieve art automatically when tracks with missing art begin to play.

Oh, it looks like it already does this!

Actually, you should be able to configure the colors of the track notification in Growl in your System Preferences.

I don’t use MacOS X but Win XP. How can I d on Windows to make the notifications more readable?

Thanks for your help

Hi maybe you can add a function to disable the notifier or to change the transparency etc.
Using the notifier with directx applications like games leads to a stuttering video output in the directx applications, not only while the notifier is on top even after disappearing.

Oh, right, I have no idea how I forgot about that. :)
Looks like the alert system in this extension is simply a styled window. If you know how an extension works, you can change the css file yourself in the skin directory.
But if you have no idea what I have just said, you should probably wait for future updates. There’s no user-friendly way to customize the notifications on Windows or Linux currently, but stevo is probably working on that.

Ooh, I just found out that this now lets you specify your own image. Thanks!

But I also found a bug. Seems like the notifications do not get and display the cover art when you leave Songbird in mini mode.

Maybe the notifier pop-up doesn’t disappear completely and remains minimized in the foreground please fix it thanks.

Currently there is an issue when a album has various artists. Only some of the tracks will get album data. I commented out line 281 which tells songbird to search for a specific artist name in addition to the album name in order to resolve the problem.

seems to be a conflict between birdtitel and albumart manager, i cant disable the birdtitle notifier but this is a other problem and has to be solved in a other threat^^

Manually fetching covers from amazon is screwed up for me. Covers I fetched for one album will appear on other albums, and lots of times all the albums will show the same cover even though thats not actually the cover stored for that album.

Letting albums fetch as they play seems okay, although I’m not sure how that works, since I have folder.jpg files for albums on my computer it might just be getting it from those.

Also, would it be possible to "search" for album covers? What I mean is, for an album that doesn't fetch correctly from amazon, I could put in a keyword for it to search for covers with that keyword, then pick the correct one. It would be useful especially if I customized the album title.

Version 0.9 makes it so that when I’m in the Album Art Manager, there are no albums shown.

‘album art manager’ menu option opens a blank indow on 0.0.9

Hello Stevo

in the 0.0.9 version are some bugs on windows

→album art manager opens a clear window
→the covers won’t show

i hope you will fix this soon

PS: your plugin is really great ;)

greetz ALU

0.0.9 dont work for me (windows).
It shows no covers, only the little birdy.
album art manager opens a blank window, with only the menu “Covers” and “Missing Art Work”-Button. (Both do nothing, when I click it).
Its seems to be a similar problem as the one mentioned by Julien1311, Fri, 12/28/2007–01:12PM.

The screenshots are wonderful, it would be great, if you can get it working ;-)

Hi Stevo

Version 0.9.1 didn’t work for me… same as 0.9.0 ,wait for fixes ;)

keep going

greetz ALU

the album cover problem doesn’t seem to be fixed for me.
’preciate your work, though!

yeah im having the same problem 0.09–0.091 havent worked for me. Current Album Cover shows the default image and window only shows the two buttons.

This looks like a great addon, but as with the above I can’t get it to display anything. I’ve got a clean install of 0.4 and there are no messages in the error console.

I’m running Windows XP.

thx for the great work so far :)

HI stevo
the new version 0.9.2 works great for me on WinXP

SB 0.4 after a bit testing the button “get missing covers” didn’t work

and i have had some problems with the covers form Billy Talent… but after a while i get the right covers on the right Billy album so it doesnt matter as much.

PS: very very great work Stevo !

PS II: sorry for my terrible english ;)

regards ALU

Hi Stevo,

Version 0.9.2 displays the covers and the filter displays the missing covers. However when i played a song that in the album art manager has a cover assigned, the current playing pane in the bottom corner does not show the artwork it just shows the default songbird image.

I am running ubuntu 7.10 with songbird 0.4

Great work stevo

Seems like the Album Manager is working again :).

Though, none of the covers that have been fetched are showing up there. They sow up in the “current album cover” area, but the manager shows I don’t have covers for anything o_O.

Also, could you implement some sorting or search function to the manager? Even just an alphabetical sort would help, I can’t find anything.

Hey Stevo!

Installed the latest update (0.9.2) and was surprised to see it still didn’t work (album art simply wasn’t downloaded at all). Madly checking and unchecking the options however made me realise what was up:

For some reason when the option “Save covers to” was selected (with a folder that did exist and was writable) new album images would not be downloaded or saved. Changing this back to “Use album location” fixed the problem and it now works fine.

Just though I should let you know. :-)

Also teh “Get missing artwork from amazon” button doesn’t work–though I can fetch each album from amazon individually

* I'm also having problems with Album Art not showing up on the display pane (Service Pane Bottom). Only the default songbird image appears. * also not able to get missing art work from amazon. I'm running Songbird 0.4 on XP. Any updates or suggestions? Please and thank you.

First of all, great work Stevo! Your add on is my favorite so far.

I was having the same problem as Yelif and many others, but when I enabled Track Change Notification the service pane worked again.

Yet I have another problem: Album Art Manager is fetching the same cover for a group of albums with entirely different names/artists. Any idea why this is happening?

0.9.2 now partly works. It shows everything correct, and finds missing covers on amazon.

BUT: it did not save any cover! it doesnt even show them in den “current album cover”-section.
So now that even worse than before, because now I can see what is possible with this add-on, but i cant reach it! :’-(

I hope you find a solution…

The next important step should be to use amazon-stores in different countries.That would be a dream!

Rock on!

it worked!! Cron you’re a genius! Once I enabled the track change notification the Album covers appeared.

now if we can only find out why Amazon fetches the same cover for all tracks.

thanks guys, keep up the good work.

This might be a stupid question but does it also fetch the embedded album art directly from the MP3?

All my MP3’s have embedded album art, which is shown in multiple mediaplayers and devices (incl. iPod/Playstation Portable/Walkman phone, etc) but it does not display in Songbird with this addon…

Hey, great add-on, or at least it would be if I could sort this slight issue I’m having.

All my music is stored on a server in my house, and although your add-on successfully identifies the correct album cover, and downloads it, it fails to display it from the network, I just have a grey (perhaps transparent) box, which shows nothing at all.

I’d like to have the covers stored with the music rather than keep them locally, any ideas why it can’t display from the network?

Oh right, it does require a login, thought it might just see if windows had already logged in, like songbird seems to do to play the music, the only thing thats confusing me now, is its creating the file, its downloading the image, and saving it on the network, so surely if its got permission to write, then its got permission to read?

file:////mediapc/music/kate%20nash/made%20of%20bricks/foundations.mp3

Please pardon my ignorance but I am completely new to Songbird.

I just installed SB 0.4 and am not able dont know how to get album covers. I have the default icon for all albums.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Edit:

I all of a sudden have album covers? I still don't know how to download them, though.

I figured it out. Sorry.

album art is the same as above, but with cover.jpg in place of foundations.mp3, sorry, wrote down wrong location.

Hi!

I’m giving a try at your add-on, but I have some problems. But 1st: OS: Ubuntu 7.10, and SB: 0.4.

1) Most of my album covers are saved where the respective audio files are and the cover is named folder.jpg. It seems your add-on uses cover.jpg, which is fine as long as it will recognize folder.jpg too, or Folder.jpg, or the 1st image file in the directory.

2) I downloaded one cover for an album. It saved it correctly at the right folder with name of cover.jpg, but Current Album Cover does not show it. Is it supposed to show when I play the file and when it’s selected, or when?

I go to the manager (through the menu) and right click on some albums to get it’s cover from amazon.
that works (the covers appear)
but on the left buttom of songbird where the cover should appear then when i play the album there’s just the default songbird album cover–.–

Retrieving Album Covers from ID3Tags would make life so much easier for everyone.

Keep up the good work.

can we erase this add-on so that nobody accidently downloads it

Is anyone else having problems setting the album cover from a local file?

Also, it would be really cool if the Album Art Manager add-on could talk to the Album View add-on.

Also, is this album art only for use within Songbird, or is it supposed to be saving into the metadata? So far it’s not writing into the metadata for me, because the art isn’t showing up in the Album Applet add-on.

I am using Ver.0.9.2. And, though it remodeled for Amazon.co.jp Two byte character is garbled, and a normal result is not obtained. Then, to obtain a normal result so that the user in the sphere of two bytes might also use it, the source was corrected. The revision part is the following. 1.Request parameter change to Amazon Artist=%artist%%album-query% -> Keywords=%artist%%album-query% - In Artist because it is too severe as the retrieval item 2.Method change escape() -> encodeURI() unescape() -> decodeURI() - Two byte character because normally it encodes, and the decipherment doesn't occur. Moreover, because the folder of an abnormal name is made if the encode decipherment cannot be normally done. 3.Method application addition EncodeURI() is applied to all the request parameters to Amazon. - Because the request parameter to Amazon reaches normally. The cover of MP3 that uses the character in two bytes can be acquired in these correspondences and the image be acquired from Amazon.co.jp normally. I think something for it to be able to refer though it is uncertain whether it is correspondence that this is correct. Moreover, the image acquisition correspondence excluding Amazon.com is officially expected.

Getting two notifications of a track change, first the album art is displayed from this plugin, then another notification which is slightly different with no album art.

I’ve checked all other plug-ins and nothing is conflicting, screenshots showing the progression are below (I hope it’s ok to post links like this).

1. http://img403.imageshack.us/my.php?image=albumart1oh4.jpg

2. http://img85.imageshack.us/my.php?image=albumart2dz5.jpg

3. http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=albumart3qy3.jpg

The first notification scrolls away before the second one does.

Found it was “Minimise to system tray” causing the extra song notification. I’ll make a relevant comment but I’m sure he knows.

So this plugin is pretty much perfect for me!
Good work.

Hi Stevo,

I am running os x 10.4.11 and get the following errors when using the album art manager:

Looks good, hope this report is helpful

JimmyK

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception… “’[JavaScript Error: "AmazonAlbumCoverGetter is not defined” {file: “file:///Users/jimmyk/Library/Application%20Support/Songbird1/Profiles/pnssorba.default/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js” line: 544}]’ when calling method: [sbIAlbumArtService::getAlbumCoverFromAmazon]" nsresult: “0x80570021 (NSERRORXPCJAVASCRIPTERRORWITHDETAILS)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://albumartmanager/content/albumartmanager.js :: anonymous :: line 198” data: yes]

Patiently waiting for SB 0.5 support . . .

It does not show an album cover on the OSD for me. I have another add-on, which does but I cannot find a way do disable the OSD in the Album Art Manager.

Hi, it does not install to any version of Songbird. I tried a nightly build, blessed build and even 0.4, and every time I’ve got

“Album Art Manager” could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Songbird build type (WINNT_x86-msvc). Please contact the author of this item about the problem.

I get the same problem on Mac OSX.

Still has error. Using 0.5 nightly build and windows vista.

With what version of Songbird it is currently compatible?

Is there an option to tell Album Art Manager that the cover.jpg’s are located in the folder with the music?

Same problem on Linux using Nightly Build:

“Album Art Manager” could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Songbird build type (Linux_x86-gcc3). Please contact the author of this item about the problem.

1.0.1 is hardwired for Darwin_x86-gcc3 in install.rdf.

yes, i see it now. changed to Linux _x86-gcc3 and was able to install.

it does not seem to work at the moment though it did for previous versions.

I am at a loss here….

“Album Art Manager” could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Songbird build type (WINNT_x86-msvc). Please contact the author of this item about the problem.

i have the same problem and you seem to have solved it. If so, can you tell me how you did this.

found it
got it to install

just 1 question how does it search for the covers. I have a cover.jpg file in the same folder as in the songs of that disc and it doest find it.

HI stevo

your new version doesent work for me on SB 5rc1 i have two errors in the console:

1:

Error: [Exception… “’JavaScript component does not have a method named: "onBeforeTrackChange”’ when calling method: [sbIPlaylistPlaybackListener::onBeforeTrackChange]" nsresult: “0x80570030 (NSERRORXPCJSOBJECTHASNOFUNCTION_NAMED)” location: “JS frame :: file:///.../components/sbPlaylistPlayback.js :: anonymous :: line 967” data: no]
Source File: file:///.../components/sbPlaylistPlayback.js
Line: 970

2:
Error: [Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NSERRORUNEXPECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getBoolPref]” nsresult: “0x8000ffff (NSERRORUNEXPECTED)” location: “JS frame :: file:///.../extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js :: anonymous :: line 277” data: no]
Source File: file:///D:/Programme/Songbird/components/sbPlaylistPlayback.js
Line: 991

i hope you can fix this soon.

keep up the gtrat work ;)

greetz ALU

I have the same error as some of the other users:

“"Album Art Manager” could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Songbird build type (WINNT_x86-msvc). Please contact the author of this item about the problem."

Downloaded the *.xpi file.
Renamed to *.zip
Uncompressed
Substituted from the *.rdf file “Darwin_x86-gcc3” with “WINNT_x86-msvc”
Recompressed and renamed the new *.zip to *.xpi

Installed without problem.
But unable to find any cover after one hour of work.

The covers are in the folders, is any way to load them directly from folders?

Hi setveo

first sorry for my bad english and thx for the great support.

now i have again a bug for you I dont know if its only on WIN.

if i try to use the cover from file function i get an error on the errorconsole.

Here we go ;)

Error: albumElement is not defined
Source File: chrome://albumartmanager/content/scripts/albumartmanager.js
Line: 188

Hello, I am totally new to songbird but loving it so far, and bar far this is the best add-on I have found, but I am having a little trouble with something.

From what I have read I think this add-on will allow a similar function to coverflow in iTunes, but whenever it starts for me it comes up in a seperate window from the main songbird window, am I doing something wrong?

charliwest

The addon you are thinking of is album applet it implements something similar to itunes coverflow. This one just lets you manage the covers of each of your albums (btw i just love it, its one of my favorites)

Think i might have found a bug or two.

Have the album by Weird Al Yankovic Called “Weird Al” Yankovic, the album name includes quotes. When i search for the album art on amazon it acts like it didnt find it. But it seems to have saved it correctly in the folder. Still wont display it though. This makes me think there might be some kind of escaping problem?

With the latest version (With the swirling images) when it starts searching for an image it cant find it wont stop, and this seems to lag / stop future searches from working unless i re open songbird. Any ideas? Is there a built in timeout?

Hi there! I want to suggest another feature that is present in other mmedia player. I noticed that if a MP3Tag contain the cover, it is ignored and the extension try to download it however. Would be nice to have this!
Bye, J.

Thanks for your reply.
That add-on seems to have gone, anyone know what happened?

Nice work but it would be ace if it could grab your current covers from itunes. Is this possible?

Here’s a bug when saving covers!
(SB 0.5, AAM 1.0.2)

The extension is set to save into the original music folder but cannot handle ‘non-standard’ letters, e.g.

original, existing music folder:
“Olé, Olé”;

instead of saving the cover into this folder the extension creates a new folder named
“olé, olé” .

Another example,
“Grönemeyer” &
“grönemeyer” .

Also, when the extension cannot find a cover it continuous displaying the last played, known cover, which is confusing. I would prefer, if it would either show a blank images or a note stating that no cover is yet available.

Hope that makes sense.

Cheers, C

Let me start this by stating that I may be doing something wron. I’m running SB 0.5 & AAM 1.0.2+dev. I put my album art covers in the same folder at the album. With some covers AAM recopies a different cover into the folder than the one I placed there.

Got a suggestion. Add on works like a charm by the way. Is there a way you code the add on to look up a playlist item that constantly changes?(internet radio artist/song name)

When I Try to “Get Artwork from file” it just doesn’t work: it keeps of “finding the artwork” to infinity…..

help?

Yeah…
Does this get the artwork from a website?
Because i have downloaded songs from skreemr, and only 2 of the tracks have artwork displayed when they are played.
I am doing this wrong? i thought this would be good so the album art would be saved and displayed on my mp3, but only a couple actually do

Also when you click on the art in the seperate window, and select get from amazon, it never seems to stop swirling.
Is this a problem? maybe in next version maybe use a faster album finder thing.

I don’t know if you’ve realised, but you need to update this extension to implement sbIPlaylistPlaybackListener.onBeforeTrackChange

Proposal for new FEATURE:
Do you think it would be possible to have an image handling implemented in order to store the album art in the files directly?

I have just seen the screenshot with the WIN popup. So of course also a linux version using libnotify would be nice to have.
Cheers and thanks for your effort in that !

Martin

hi

the new bugreport for SB 0.5–WIN

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Error: uncaught exception: [Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NSERRORFILENOTFOUND) [nsIXPCComponents_Utils.import]” nsresult: “0x80520012 (NSERRORFILENOTFOUND)” location: “JS frame :: file:///…/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbMetadataCoverFetcher.js :: :: line 43” data: no]

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NSERRORFILENOTFOUND) [nsIXPCComponents_Utils.import]” nsresult: “0x80520012 (NSERRORFILENOTFOUND)” location: “JS frame :: file:///…/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbFileCoverFetcher.js :: :: line 43” data: no]

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NSERRORFILENOTFOUND) [nsIXPCComponents_Utils.import]” nsresult: “0x80520012 (NSERRORFILENOTFOUND)” location: “JS frame :: file:///…/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbAmazonCoverFetcher.js :: :: line 43” data: no]

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NSERRORFILENOTFOUND) [nsIXPCComponents_Utils.import]” nsresult: “0x80520012 (NSERRORFILENOTFOUND)” location: “JS frame :: file:///…/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js :: :: line 48” data: no]

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keep up ;)

greetz ALU

Version 1.1.0+dev is not installing correctly on Songbird 0.5/Ubuntu. It says something about errors with chrome registration.

I have installed it on 0.6 blessed build and it does not fetch images from Amazon. Getting images from file system however works perfectly.

Also for some reason I have two song change notification on both sides of the screen and the one one right does not disappear afterward.

Great add on. Worked well before i did this recent download. Though I like the changes you have made and wishing for more….. I am currently not even seeing an option to view album Art.

I am just not seeing any album art at all.

Using Songbird .5

I have the same problem. In version 1.10+dev, there is no option to dock it to the service pane bottom, or indeed any other pane.

Running Songbird/0.6pre (20080410013024) on Windows XP

I should also add that when i launch album art Manager, it remains empty but keeps saying loading albums. I had all the Album Art before this install.

Oh.. Using Windows Vista

I’ve got the same issues as deomega and Blu Aardvark using Songbird 0.5 on 3 different computers running respectively XP, Vista and Hardy.

Current one appears broken… I have the same issues as the people above on my Ubuntu 8.04 Laptop.

This was really useful too!

That “AlbumApplet” (Java Coverflow extn) doesn’t work for me either so meh.

I am running Ubuntu Linux Hardy Heron 8.04 32bit. Album Art applet has stopped working ever since upgrading to 1.10+dev.

I am using Songbird 0.6 Nightly (Blessed)

This problem was fixed in version 1.1.1+dev

Ah, new problem.

I’m displaying the proper album cover in the Album Art Manager window, loaded from file. The Current Album Cover viewpane, however, is not displaying that album cover when it should be; rather just displaying the default birdie.

Songbird 0.6pre blessed build 2008-05-09 on Windows XP.

Same With me.

Hardy Heron 8.04 32bit
Since last upgrade to 1.1.1 not working as well.

Stevo,
I see you are trying and I know we all appreciate it. However, the same problems exist. No luck at all.

Upgraded to 1.1.1+DEV but still no joy, are there any dependencies we should be aware of in Ubuntu Linux???

I’ve even gone to the extremes of reverting back to Songbird 0.5, but no luck.

I am beginning to wonder if this is a problem with Songbird though

System: Ubuntu Linux Hardy Heron (8.04) 32Bit, Songbird 0.5 (downgraded from 0.6pre (installed from TARball))

Despite sounding like a bunch of ungrateful bast*rds, we do appreciated all your hard work, which maybe why some people are upset that such a useful plugin has stopped working for no apparent reason...

This is a great addon and I really like the song notifications better than the ones from the systray extension, but it just isn’t working any more.

I’m having the same issues reported above (no option for album art content pane, Manager never moves past “loading albums…”, no notification popups, etc.).

I hope you can get the issues straightened out. Good luck, sir!

Very well said!!!! We do appreciate the product.

I May have a solution…

Firstly, make sure you have selected VIEW > SHOW SERVICE PANE BOTTOM

click on the icon when that pane appears (looks like the outline of a window with a down arrow in it). Select CURRENT ALBUM COVER.

As for the manager, I am unsure, but I have just “upgraded” to the LATEST nightly build, and (re)INSTALLED Album Art Manager through the Songbird Add-Ons bookmark.

Upon restarting Songbird, I went to ADD-ONS (you MAY have to do the bottom pane thing again) Album Art Manager and lo and behold ALL my albums loaded…

Give it a whirl. “Upgrading” to 0.6pre will wipe the databse that holds you library, so you’ll need to be patient while Songbird rebuilds it. IT WILL NOT DELETE ANY PHYSICAL FILES!!

I upgraded for a moment to 0.6 pre, and it works there, but it does not work in 0.5.

OK, decided to stay with 0.6Pre Blessed, since it works there.

Doesn’t work with Songbird 0.5 on Windows XP. ! I installed it via the menu, restarted and nothing happend.

Is there any way to display already embedded mp3 album art? I don’t need that Amazon stuff.

I originally had problems with the blessed build, so I resolved to use one of the Nightly Nightly builds instead, hope fully the next blessed will be built on this, it’s pretty stable, but I’m always wary of nightly built stuff…

So, after this new update, I went back to 0.5 and still having issues. . . so, I will just wait for the official 0.6 Release.

Also, please see if anyone can help out the developer of ‘catalog view’.. awesome compliment to this addon. Just what the doctor ordered.

I updated to 0.6 songbird beta and the most recent update of album art manager. Manager did not update my cover art automatically. I could download art from amazon and from my file location but I had to do each individually. The problem now is that the cover will not appear in the bottom service pane. I would really love to have this work.

Just loaded in version 1.3.1. Just keeps saying loading album 0 of 44… little wheel keeps turning and turning….

I have the same problem :(

Hi Stevo,

The first album is “What’s the Story) Morning Glory ?” from Oasis. I tried to rename the album in “0” but it didn’t change anything.

When I open the “Album Art Manager” window, five errors appears :

1/ Error: [Exception… “’JavaScript component does not have a method named: "onStateChange”’ when calling method: [sbILocalDatabaseAsyncGUIDArrayListener::onStateChange]" nsresult: “0x80570030 (NSERRORXPCJSOBJECTHASNOFUNCTION_NAMED)” location: “” data: no]

2/ Error: [Exception… “’JavaScript component does not have a method named: "onStateChange”’ when calling method: [sbILocalDatabaseAsyncGUIDArrayListener::onStateChange]" nsresult: “0x80570030 (NSERRORXPCJSOBJECTHASNOFUNCTION_NAMED)” location: “” data: no]

3/ Error: [Exception… “’JavaScript component does not have a method named: "onStateChange”’ when calling method: [sbILocalDatabaseAsyncGUIDArrayListener::onStateChange]" nsresult: “0x80570030 (NSERRORXPCJSOBJECTHASNOFUNCTION_NAMED)” location: “” data: no]

4/ Error: [Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0x80520001 (NSERRORFILEUNRECOGNIZEDPATH) [nsILocalFile.initWithPath]” nsresult: “0x80520001 (NSERRORFILEUNRECOGNIZEDPATH)” location: “JS frame :: file:///D:/Sauvegardes/Songbird/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js :: anonymous :: line 659” data: no]
Source File: file:///D:/Sauvegardes/Songbird/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js
Line: 659

5/ Error: [Exception… “’JavaScript component does not have a method named: "onStateChange”’ when calling method: [sbILocalDatabaseAsyncGUIDArrayListener::onStateChange]" nsresult: “0x80570030 (NSERRORXPCJSOBJECTHASNOFUNCTION_NAMED)” location: “” data: no]

I’m using Songbird 0.6pre 20080521 and WinXP SP2.

I hope you can solve the problem.

Thanks for your work.

I don't know if it is supposed to, but the version 1.3.3 doesn't solve my problem! Moreover, I think that the new art for missing albums is too bright. I prefer the other one with the bird.

I have another error that appears when I launch Songbird :

Error: [Exception… “Not enough arguments [sbICoverFetcher.fetchCoverForMediaItem]” nsresult: “0x80570001 (NSERRORXPCNOTENOUGH_ARGS)” location: “JS frame :: file:///D:/Sauvegardes/Songbird/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbCoverScanner.js :: LibraryScanner_askNextFetcher :: line 543” data: no]
Source File: file:///D:/Sauvegardes/Songbird/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbCoverScanner.js
Line: 543

This one seems easy to fix.

Another question : do you plan on adding a multi-language support ? If you do, tell me I could translate the add-on in French.

I have all my album art in Itunes, but somehow, I am having problems getting songbird and Album art manager to pick them all up.
Maybe I will wait for the June Beta .6 release.
Keep up the good works Stevo.

For some reason it won’t pick up the album covers, even though they are embedded in the meta-data of the songs. Also, the current album cover doesn’t update much.
In relation to the first of my complaintlets, Just being able to type in the path of the image would make my OCD-compulses for cover-flow come true.
P.S, is the current album cover thing in the bottom left supposed to update after every song, or just when you select a song to play?

Since i posted the message above, i realized that .6 RC2 is out, so I installed it.
Is there something I am doing wrong why I am just having problems getting album art? It only retrieve SOME album covers, but that is after playing them… and sometimes it is not a cover I have on my computer.
Also, when i load the Album Art manager, only 2 albums show up out of Hundreds and it is unable to locate art for them. There was a time in the past when all my album art was showing up.
Any ideas welcome.
Using Windows Vista and importing from Itunes Library. Some of the art was downloaded via itunes and some with MediaMonkey.

Oh, and art not showing up in the left service pane, even when the song playing has an album.

Hi Stevo,
I have translated your add-on in French. How can I send the albumartmanager.properties and albumartmanager.dtd files so you can update the xpi?
I hope you’ll be able to fix the problem I mentioned earlier very soon. AlbumArtManager is unusable for the moment.
Keep working ;)

I’m having the same problem as deomega

Is there any reason why this addon doesn’t (or a way to make this addon do this) simply just read the album art from the file’s tag? This would be handy for a number of reasons.
#1 - All of my audio files are tagged with embedded album art
#2 - Many of my albums (see the recent online releases of albums by Nine Inch Nails) have different “art” for each track, making a single cover counter to the intent of the artist.

Sorry for the unintentional “strike-through” in the above post. Shame on me for not using the “Preview” function before posting!

Hi stevo,
The mail steven@songbirdnest.com seems to be down

Is there really no way to choose the album cover from a file or am I just missing it?

Has anybody gotten this addon to work? My icon just spins and spins and I never get any covers to show up. I’m about ready to give up on Songbird because this is the most important thing for me.

yay !

Hooray, it works again!
A couple things to note, album names with special characters still seem to cause the fetcher to barf. Notably, ? : () seem to kill the amazon fetcher, I have yet to grab the art manually and associate it to make sure the filesystem fetcher likes it. I think you mentioned you were planning on adding name mangling for special characters, probably a good idea.
If you’re trying to download album art and it seems to be stuck on an album, right-click and select “Clear artwork” (or whatnot) and it goes on to the next albim.

Hey there,
Nice work on the side of your main development. I’m impressed!
When I click the Preferences button, it opens the addon’s preferences window behind the album art manager window. It took me a while to realise it was actually doing something – for quite some time I thought it was broken :oP
Also, is there any way to change it to display albums sorted by artist, not album name?
Songbird 0.6rc3, Ubuntu 8.04 64bit

nice work =)
V 1.4.1 works like a charm on WindowsXP SP3 on SB 0.6rc3

Alright—works much better in RC3! The file system auto-fetcher still doesn’t seem to be working though. Is there a specific naming convention that it is expecting, or does it conform to what’s in the preferences? I have .png files in the album directory named as album.png. There’s no metadata embedded in the tags. Thanks!

stevo,
Any plans to allow artwork to be all installed in one folder? Also, for the addon to read the contents of a folder before attempting to download them all.
I’m migrating from J.River Media Center, and have already collected most of the artwork (~1700 images) for my music in one folder, so I’d like to reuse it.
P.S. Great work on this addon – very slick. :)

Duh. That was obvious. Note to self: open eyes before posting.

When I right-click an album and choose, “Get artwork from file” all it does is tell me it’s searching. I’m not exactly what it is searching because it never allowed me to tell it where the file is located at for the program to use as the album art. Any way I could manually download an album cover and then set it to the corresponding cover?

http://www.songbirdnest.com/node/3258

I’m seeing the same thing Maxo is. Also, when I tell it to get the artwork from Amazon, it never finds anything and never returns an error. Or anything at all. The spinner just spins forever. There’s nothing in the error console, either.

help me…it is not working.
i get the same image for all the albums!!
why??
what should i do?
p.s. i’m using ubuntu hardy

The same thing as Maxo here!!
- No cover is showing except for one album which has a “cover.jpg” file inside the folder.
- Can’t download cover from Amazon, it keeps spinning and nothing is downloades
- No file picker dialog is shown when trying to get the cover from file. (I’ve already assigned one folder for all my covers and specified the file extension and format).
- The error console shows this:
—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—
Error: [Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0×80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER) [nsIFileProtocolHandler.getURLSpecFromFile]” nsresult: “0×80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://albumartmanager/content/scripts/prefPane.js :: anonymous :: line 126” data: no]
Source File: chrome://global/content/bindings/preferences.xml
Line: 366
—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—
Error: coverFileFormat is null
Source File: chrome://albumartmanager/content/scripts/prefPane.js
Line: 22
—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—
Error: albumElement is not defined
Source File: chrome://albumartmanager/content/scripts/albumartmanager.js
Line: 188
—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—
Error: [Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0×80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER) [nsIFileProtocolHandler.getURLSpecFromFile]” nsresult: “0×80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://albumartmanager/content/scripts/prefPane.js :: anonymous :: line 126” data: no]
Source File: chrome://global/content/bindings/preferences.xml
Line: 366
—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—
I hope you could fix it, I’m sure I’m gonna love this add on!!!
Cheers!

I like the track change pop up notification with the the album art, but I am wondering:
Is it possible to change the size of the album art in the pop up?
Thanks for a great add-on!

So far I am able to successfully select and apply chosen artwork, by browsing on my computer, to the album.
The only problem I have run into is the artwork only shows a random select few of tracks (on the mini preview on the side bar) when I set art for the whole album.
I’m sure other people have mentioned similar problems, but I thought I would just give you a heads up. I’m REALLY happy you have a great start on this feature- Being a huge doujin music fan, I love the cover art for the albums and always organize it that way (before I converted to Songbird- best move of my life).
I can’t wait to enjoy a perfected version of this :) Thanks for all your hard work!

OH WAIT. I found out what the problem is. I have multiple artists for one album, and the art only shows up for one of those artists as a result.
Just my two cents.

Hey, cool Addon, and coupled with the MediaFlow Addon has converted me from Rhythembox to Songbird.
Would love it if you could get the album art from the ID3 tags. I have lots of obscure stuff in my MP3 collection which wouldn’t be found on Amazon etc so would love this feature. Pretty much every file in my collection has the cover art in the ID3 (took ages to tag) so it would be much appreciated.
Keep up the amazing work!

Hi, I think this add-on is a great idea, but i cant use it :( I got it to be able to use MediaFlash but neither works out for me. Here is what happens, when I use “get from amazon” it changes all or most of my albums to the one I select, they all get the same cover. Also when i use “clear artwork” it does nothing…
Any thoughts to solve this?

I meant MediaFlow… :P

Oh and im using Songbird 0.5 on Windows XP Professional SP3. (Sorry for the number of consecutive posts).

Here’s a bit of a problem.
I have a rather extensive library, and a good portion of it has been accessed by many different programs over many years. Most of the albums in the library have artwork either in the music folders themselves, or embedded within the metadata of the music files themselves. I would like to access this information rather than fetch data from a remote location.
However, the Art Manager isn’t finding the album covers in the folders or the files, and I cannot, for the life of me, find a configuration location that makes it possible to find these covers. I can go in and manually configure the 200 plus albums (a hundred and fifty of which can’t find covers) but I have songbird installed on multiple computers and multiple operating systems. That’s a lot of duplication of effort.
If I can’t configure Art Manager to find the art on the local systems, can I take the manually configured data and copy it to the other systems running Songbird? Where is this data located? Any help would be appreciated.
-RAnthony

Is there any way to fetch album art from discogs since it has a rather extensive database of covers and album art especially for vinyl releases which is hard to find any where else? btw I have no Javascript experience.

After a bit of experimentation (and a more thorough reading of earlier posts) I think I can narrow my request down a bit. Wildcards. I think the ability to use wildcard characters would be a benefit. Most of my music folders have a single image in them, but that image is a random alpha-numeric, or isn’t named in the convention that is specified in the preferences dialog. If Album Art Manager could just be told to accept the first image it found in the music folder, that would be a great time savings.
I still would like to know where the information on album images is stored, I’d like to test copying a set up library file from one OS to another.

Updated to version 0.6 all problems solved…

Love the discogs idea squaredancer! :o)

I have the same issue than ranthony. Are you on Vista 64 ?

Running Songbird 0.6 on Windows XP SP2 and Ubuntu 8.04. Sorry about that. I might even install it on the Macbook here shortly, just for a laugh.
I sort of resolved the ‘problem’ although it’s going to require renaming image files through most of the library to fix. Which is why I suggested the ability to use wildcard characters in the preferences dialog (that does not appear to work) so that the addon just uses whatever image file is found in the music folder.

Installed 0.6 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron and after initial import the first thing I did was install Album Art Manager and restart. However, none of the album art will download—I have zero covers. I have also tried the June 18 nightly build of Songbird, following the same process and get the same result.
Is this add-on broken?

I use it also at work on XP SP3 and here it works ( both for some files and with my iPod ). Same files, different results. I might try it again at home, I’ll install the plugin before importing the collection.

@Squaredancer, I have written a Discogs Fetcher addon for the Album Art Manager. You can get it from http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addons/1226
I’ve not tested it much but let me know how you get on.

I’m running Songbird/0.6 on mac Os X 10.5.3 and the last version of Album Art Manager is not working properly. It doesn’t show any cover even those that I’ve got and both Discogs and Last.fm Fetcher seem not work at all. Just in case, I got the following at the Error Console:
Error: sbAlbumArtService: [ERROR] – Unable to convert chrome://albumartmanager/skin/no-cover.png to URI
Source File: file:///Users/nachoroman/Library/Application%20Support/Songbird2/Profiles/qseop9ji.default/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js
Line: 119
I hope this comment helps you and me ;)
P.S.: Sorry for my primitive English.

Sorry I didn’t that ”- -” means del tag in this input area. So, Album Art Manager doesn’t show those cover that I’ve already got on my computer…

Still fairly buggy. For instance, i clear the artwork from the album, then try to add the artwork from “file system” as i have hard copies of all my artwork. Anyway, with some albums it will work, then on others when i add artwork the album becomes invisible in mediaflow.
It would be great too if it worked like iTunes where it keeps the dimensions of the image you are using rather than squashing it to fit the dimensions you have set. For example, i like to use movie posters for any Soundtracks i have. Which are rectangular. Not a huge deal but might be something to consider addding, if possible of course.
Great work though. Thanks!!
Bit off-topic. But how abpout adding artwork through the metadata? Could that ever work?

I’m not having much luck with this at all. When I start Album Art Manager it says loading albums for ever and doesn’t actually get anywhere.
Can anyone help me get it working?
I’m running Songbird 0.6 on Ubuntu 32 bit.

Hi, I have precisely the same problem as nchroman above. When I first open album art manager, in rightclicking on a (empty) album cover I get only the “clear artwork option”. If I go to the preferences and open the “Fetcher priority” it is empty. If I then “reset” it, and then reopen it, the fetchers appear, and I get back the other options when right-clicking on the covers. But then, trying to fetch missing covers fails, as well as trying to upload jpegs of covers I have on disk. Error console gives the same error nchorman mentions. Trying to upload a cover from file system produces instead:
Error: this._ioService is undefined
Source File: file:///Users/pippo/Library/Application%20Support/Songbird2/Profiles/1td59azz.default/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js
Line: 905
While trying to fetch from Amazon gives:
Error: sbAlbumArtService: [ERROR] – Error getting content location: TypeError: this._ioService is undefined
Source File: file:///Users/pippo/Library/Application%20Support/Songbird2/Profiles/1td59azz.default/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js
Line: 119
(this one repeated 3 times)
Error: location is null
Source File: file:///Users/pippo/Library/Application%20Support/Songbird2/Profiles/1td59azz.default/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbFileCoverFetcher.js
Line: 156
Error: sbCoverScanner: [ERROR] – Unable to get fetcher: @songbirdnest.com/Songbird/cover/file-fetcher;1: [Exception… ”’[JavaScript Error: “location is null” {file: “file:///Users/pippo/Library/Application%20Support/Songbird2/Profiles/1td59azz.default/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbFileCoverFetcher.js” line: 156}]’ when calling method: [sbICoverFetcher::fetchCoverForMediaItem]” nsresult: “0×80570021 (NS_ERROR_XPC_JAVASCRIPT_ERROR_WITH_DETAILS)” location: “JS frame :: file:///Users/pippo/Library/Application%20Support/Songbird2/Profiles/1td59azz.default/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbCoverScanner.js :: sbCoverScanner__getCover :: line 191” data: yes]
Source File: file:///Users/pippo/Library/Application%20Support/Songbird2/Profiles/1td59azz.default/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbCoverScanner.js
Line: 154
Which in short, means it is not working at all ;-)
This on Mac os X 10.5.3 songbird 0.6 …
Thank you!

is there a place to formally report a bug ? the album art manager seems to fail on every artist/albums containing accentuated characters ( say, björk for instance ). other than that great job :)
PS: after preview, even this website seems to choke on accents; read bjork instead of björk …

It would be nice to choose if i want to fetch over internet or not even save that file. I frequently search a good album cover, and tag my albums correctly. But for some reason, ABM, choose to download over to show the one taggeds, and those that searchs are really with a poor quality, most of them.
Good work here

Hey Stevo. I’m a big fan of your addon and think the future features you propose are all great ideas. Something that I’d love to see is when you click the cover art in the “service pane bottom” could it open the original, unscaled image? Much like the Album Art Manager window does already.
Keep up the good work! :o)

Congrats, stevo! Great work!
Finally a media player with an album art manager, that allows me to change the folder, where I save all my album art.
I love your addon!!!
Just some little issues I had with the album art manager:
- it doesn’t work with album art that has a semicolon in its file name.
- it would be nice to have the file format field “album artist” for the cover file format.
- Since the albums are sorted just by “Album” in the album art manager, there appears only 1 album, when I have two artist with the same album name. For example it doesn’t differ between “Artist A – Greatest Hits” and “Artist B – Greatest Hits”. So it would be great to have “Artist – Album” or “Album (Artist)” in the album art manager. (Ihope I have expressed myself understandable :-))
However: thank you for the great work!! Keep it up, please!

Hm, but what’s the correct tag name for “album artist”?
I’ve tried album artist, album-artist, album_artist, albumartist and band.
None of them worked :-(

I like the idea of this extension but it would be great if this ext could grab the album cover from the mp3 tag as well or check their first. If its suppose to do this its not!

Not sure if your familiar with Jajuk, but its features regarding Album Art covers and managment are awesome. I would love to see the features of this built in with Songbird. Jajuk is a Java program so I am sure its possible.

Well, actually I’ve written them with ’s insteat of ”’s (like the other file format fields).
I’ve tried your idea and it still doesn’t work.
The filename I get now are something like “album artist – Greatest Hits” or “album artist – Live in New York”.
Anyway. That’s just a very small thing.
I’ll just stay with %artist – Album.
:-))

Noticed a very small, peculiar, and seemingly benign bug. With only 1 album in the Library, it will not show up in the manager window or search for covers. As soon as there are 2 albums, it works as intended. I played with it a bit, and the “requirements” it seems for the “2” albums would be any 2 different “album” tags. i.e. You could have 5 songs, 4 with an album tag and one with none and it won’t work… however you only need 2 songs with different album tags for it to work.
Not really a problem affecting usage, but interesting. Don’t know if this is just an accepted side effect with the way it’s coded, but wanted to point it out.

I created an account just to post this comment. For anyone that already has all their album art in the album folders as folder.jpg, DO NOT install this add-on. I installed it because it was a required component to MediaFlow, and the next thing I know it has deleted a large portion of my album art and has started trying to automatically replace it. Every single folder in my library contained a folder.jpg up until this point, but now over half of my library is missing folder.jpg album art. This add-on has essentially ruined what took me hours and hours to complete.

I am so disgusted with this, I never asked this add-on to delete/replace my existing album art – yet when I restart Songbird that’s exactly what it starts doing. This thing might be great for people who have no album art, but for people like me who already took the time to get high quality album art for everything in their library….it takes away time that I can never get back.

Let me paint a picture for you…..You’re sick of Winamp and all the stupid crap that comes with it. You decide to look for alternatives. You come across Songbird, and are drawn by the showcase of Mediaflow on the homepage. You download and install Songbird and the required add-ons to check out Mediaflow (ie, Album Art Manager), hoping to finally rid yourself of the corporate slop that is Winamp. You restart Songbird, and discover that this add-on has begun to delete all your album art and re-acquire it from it’s own fetchers. I am beyond sorry that I ever installed Songbird, Mediaflow, and this add-on. I’ve uninstalled all 3.

@stevo

I want to apologize, I found the cause when I sat down this morning to start re-doing my album art. Multiple media players on my PC were still able to see album art from folders that had no Folder.jpg (I'm displaying hidden files too, they are not hidden). So, I got curious and went to a folder with no Folder.jpg and added a "\Folder.jpg" in the Explorer location bar...and bam! The image viewer launches with the album art. So, the art is still there....but can't be seen through explorer or even with the "dir" command at a command prompt (these are the things I tried before posting my initial comment).

I searched around on google and found that sometimes media players will flag folder.jpg files as Windows system files, and when I enable viewing of system files in the Folder Options I can see the Folder.jpg files again. I'm sure this was nothing your add-on did, and I'm sorry for posting my initial comment.

On a somewhat related note, it seems that Album Art Manager does not recognize any of my album art. Again, every folder contains a Folder.jpg (though now I know that some are flagged as system files). But even when I check an album that contains Folder.jpg that is NOT a system file, Album Art Manager doesn't see that there is art. Why would this be? If you can't tell already, I don't want AAM to modify my album art in any way or even add to it, I just want it to use the album art I already have in place.

Good addon! But it doesn't support chinese names. Would you please add support for chinese names? I found that if chinese names is used in the path of the album cover, the cover cannot be shown.

I am very happy about this addon, but still... Just wish it would pick up my itunes album art. I spent so much time gathering them, but somehow it is not getting them ALL. It has made many replacements.

Wondering if anyone has found a good way for the folder.jpg to be automatically recognized by AAM.

This Addon doesn't work with the latest 0.7 nightly's. Why? I don`t know. Dev's? Please look at this...

Tyler out!
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Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIXPCComponents_Utils.import]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator.EXPERIENCE/Application%20Data/Songbird2/Profiles/1ad294ef.nightly/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbAlbumArtService.js :: <top_level> :: line 48" data: no]

Just wanted to say thanks - i love this!
One quick suggestion (if its even possible???) is to get it to read
embedded cover art. I used to use media mokey and it gave the option to embed your coverart instead of storing it on your harddrive - so I did
so. It would be nice not to have to fetch new coverart if yours could
somehow pick it up... but either way - Thanks!!!!!

@Stevo

HUge relief, huge relief. Any idea on the 'possible' time frame?

Thank you very much.. and again, amazing product.

It seems that covers are being saved, as I require, in the album location but that is on a server and the covers are not being retrieved across the LAN. The Manager knows it has found them but, like Songbird, shows nothing. Perhaps it can't read back the fullPath correctly.

If I change the storage location to the local machine and then right-click on some blank placeholders in the Manager (ie those for which a cover has been found and saved) to store a few covers on the local machine then those covers are handled and displayed as one would hope.

Songbird 0.6.1

(new user who last looked at Songbird_0_1_1b My, my, how things have changed!)

Hey Stevo, Just wanted to say that I'm trying the latest nightly of Version 1.5 and it rocks! It's so good to have the covers coming from the Meta data... This is one of the main things I've always wanted from Songbird, so thanks very much!

Was just wondering..can Album art manager add downloaded cover directly to meta data instead of downloading ? I think recent nightly allows you to add cover in meta data. Not an expert just thinking. cos it takes lots of time to fetch covers when i start SB.

Hiya,
Question about this add on's future- will it ever be possible to edit the album art track-by track? For instance, in the booklet of one album I have, each song has a picture that goes with it. I'd like to be able to have each picture with each individual song.
Thanks for the add-on, though! It's great :)

how can i get 1.5 version. I am on nightly.

@jigarshah - did you get the nightly build of the Album Art Manager addon too? You can get it from the Nightly Add-ons section at http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Builds/Nightly_Builds

Got 1.5. Looks great.
- But i have an funny issue. Now Album Art Manager adds "Mamma Mia" or "Akon" to almost all albums which it does not find appropriate cover.
- And clear albumart does not work. it does not clear. If i open song in meta data editor then it works. But again if i say fetch missing albumart, It again gets those "Mamma Mia" or "Akon". This never used to happen with 1.4

- Is it possible to add albumart directly to meta data so that other players can also detect it ? I mean without storing image in album folder.

Hi!
I'm new to Songbird, installed it today. What I've seen 'till now really looks very great!!!

Now I tried to install the Album Art Manager. I've got the Songbird version 0.7.0rc1 installed. As written in the history above AAM v1.4* is not compatible with it. So I tried the Nightly Builds, also not compatible.

Is there a compatible version out there? If not, when will it come? Dose it make sense to uninstall my birdie and downgrade?

Is there any way to turn off album-art fetching?

Is this not yet compatible with .7.0 rc1?

@stevo

This is still not compatible with 0.7... look like you mess up your install.rdf file !

yes please make this compatible with 0.7 rc2!

I keep .jpgs of album art locally within the album folder. Is there an easy way I can point to these files instead of running fetch?

Please update to 0.7 rc3 ;)

Although the change comment for 1.5.4pre+dev is "Set minVersion to 0.7pre" in the install.rdf it is actually:

<em:minversion>0.8.0pre</em:minversion>
<em:maxversion>0.8.0rc1</em:maxversion>

meaning that 0.7.0 users can't use it. Can you fix this please?

Rj :-)

Is there any word on when a 0.7-compatible version will be available? I've been unable to use this extension ever since I upgraded from 0.6.1 to 0.7rc1. Is there a DIY fix for the incorrect version thread, or does it need to be done by the author?

Ditto what the above commentors have said. I'd love to use it too :) Just need one compatible with 0.7 beta

not work with 0.7.0 :(

damnnn!!! i want to try this extension plzz (0.7.0)

It seems to fectch only 1 cover for a directory, but my librairy isn't well sorted so i have wrong cover for some files ...
but it's a very good add-on!

Can you get this extension updated for 0.7? I really want to use MediaFlow!

Looking forward to update for 0.7......

Thanks, Stevo. Looking forward to it!
@ soren: I'm pretty sure MediaFlow works on 0.7.0 without the AAM. It's just the cover-fetchers that require this to work properly, so if you've got album art saved for any of your music, it should show up just fine in MediaFlow.

I'm also waiting for the 0.7.0 update. Not because of MediaFlow, but because songbird doesn't seem to recognize my folder.jpg cover art. eMusic saves its cover art as folder.jpg and I'm not going to waste time adapting my collection to something different .. :)

Looking forward to testing this thing out.

yep the folder.jpg feature would be great instead of the tag.
much faster.

MediaFlow does work without AAM, but I don't have saved album artwork for my music. So every album has a generic SVG of a CD. =(

I know you are working hard on it Stevo, but just so you know, this is really essential to songbird, from my perspective. Gotta have a manager/fetcher. Songbird 7 and Mediaflow only seem to see what one already has... and not even all of what one has.

OH My goodness!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE YOU MAN! Thanks a MILLION.

Thx for your work.

Nevertheless I have a strange issue since I installed the 0.7 release.
Indeed I can't press the button "fetch missing covers" but I can right click on the album and push "get artwork on..."

As I have more than 800 albums, it's not doable one by one...

I run ubuntu by the way

Thx

How can i stop scanning my 3000 albums, i need a manually selection =)

thanks!!
Google image woud be great too as covers fetchers.

great work !
but the preferences and the notification dont't work (SB 0.7 WinXP)

Hey Steveo, any chance you can give me some pointers to update the Discogs fetcher I wrote for AAM 2.0? Or would I be best to wait until you have updated the Last.FM one and copy sections of that?

Many thanks

Hey Stevo, I don't like it, that album-art-manager sets its own no-cover.png when it doesn't find a cover. (I dont like the empty cd-case, too)
Why not just leave it blank, so feathers default shows up?

Would be great, if you could change this.

i already have a "folder.jpg" in each album folder.
How to make aam work with them ?

@gwadaboy: right-click on an album-cover (in the manager) and click "get artwork from file-system". Eventually you have to "Clear" the album cover first (if the album already has a cover)

thanks but i have more than 800 album lol.
i should have said "automatically".

@gwadaboy: lol. Then it will be almost like playing ego-shooter ;-)

If you don't like such a challenge, you'll have to wait to one of the next updates, because "fetch missing covers" is currently disabled (see comments above).

Ok! But the "Fetch Missing Covers" button is disable for me. :S Can you explain me? My album library its completely loaded... thanks!

Ok, i have read that its disable "by factory"

Thnks!

Its really cool again. I can filter by artist. But i have a small issue with this. In India Movies have lots of songs by various artist. So if i can filter cover by Album (similar to artist you have) would be really great.

Just one more question I raised this earlier. I see 400 albums in my library but in ARM it does not show all of them whats the reason for this ?

My "Fetch Album Cover" button is also disabled.

and why aam or mediaflow or ... have to reload every albumt art everytime?

Yeah there must be some kind of cache or something to keep AAM from reloading all the albums every time it's launched. It's annoying to have to wait for all the albums to load every time I need to find one album.

Also for some reason AAM can't save album arts on NTFS partitions, it worked before the songbird 0.7 upgrade. Maybe it's more of a songbird issue ?

Hi,

I'd like to report a rather unexpected behaviour of this addon. I store my album art images in a file called "%album% - front.jpg" (sometimes I have more albums in one folder). Sometimes I also have images like "%album% - back.jpg" or "%album% - CD.jpg". Now if I let the addon locate the cover on my filesystem, it takes the first image from album's directory (usually the back cover) and overwrites (without asking!) the original "%album% - front.jpg" image.

I would like to see a user defined list of files to look for in a defined order. For example "%album% - front.jpg, cover.jpg, %artist%.jpg, *.jpg". Also never overwrite any files without asking.

i think there will be an update to choose witch (wich) image you want.

HELP! Fetch covers button is disabled? Please help solve this...

Hi steve I think the missing albums problem could be to do with special characters. For me it misses the only album I have that starts with a special character

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86nima

Thanks!

I used this in version .6 without trouble, but since upgrading to .7, I've had a lot of issues (with several things, not just AAM). Album Art Manager no longer works, plain and simple. Even when I direct it to the album art folder that it created in the last version, it doesn't recognize any of the images. Fetch Missing Covers is disabled for me as well, and I cannot search for art on individual albums, either. (Well, I CAN, but nothing ever happens; it just eternally loads.)

I am getting several console errors concerning sbCoverDownloader.js, but this only occurs when I run AAM, rather than let it work by itself in the bottom left panel.

I have all my artwork as "folder.jpg" and the only way to Songbird/Album Art Manager to show them is to go album by album and Right-Click » Get artwork from File System".

As you can imagine, album by album is a pain in the...

The "Fetch Missing Covers" button is disable and I don't understand why. How can I fetch all the covers from "folder.jpg"? One thing though, for the albums which don't have a "folder.jpg" I don't want the cover to be downloaded from any other website.

How can I get this done?

I forgot about a couple of suggestions:

1) Is it possible to display the Album Art Manager window in a tab instead of it's own dialog window?

2) Make the vertical separator (the thing that separates the artist names from the album artworks) look like the ones in Songbird. It will look much better.

3) The disc design when there are no album artwork is really rough/sharp/pixelated. The one in Songbird looks much better, more soft, more anti-aliased. Improve the "disc" rendering.

4) Make the whole thing faster... Loading the albums and also chaging the split view size is a bit slow.

That's it for now...

What about my problem? Did you forgot about it? ;)

Keep up the good work :)

I have another question... I was trying to find an e-mail or something to contact you personally but I couldn't find one and I'm posting this here.

I don't have any knowledge in Add-ons and you seem to do, specially in this album cover art area...

I was wondering if it isn't possible to change the default Songbird behavior to automatically get the covers from folder.jpg or cover.jpg that's inside the album folder. I'm not saying to change this Add-on, I'm talking about a new one...

A single Add-on that it's sole porpose would be to simply load the cover files from the file system. A simple function that, in my opinion, should have been built in on Songbird. Lots of other media players do this already.

Do you think this would be easy to do?

change priority in the option (does'nt work for the moment).

Hide album who already have an album art would be great too.

Thanks so much, stevo. Here are the errors I'm getting.

These errors are received when I have the Album Art Manager window open and try to retrieve an album cover by right clicking and getting artwork from one of the art cover providers or from the file system.

Error: downloadlocation is not defined
Source File: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Lelia%20Thomas/Application%20Data/Songbird2/Profiles/kgs9zxox.leliathomas/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbCoverDownloader.js
Line: 404

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "'[JavaScript Error: "downloadlocation is not defined" {file: "file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Lelia%20Thomas/Application%20Data/Songbird2/Profiles/kgs9zxox.leliathomas/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbCoverDownloader.js" line: 404}]' when calling method: [sbICoverDownloader::downloadCover]" nsresult: "0x80570021 (NS_ERROR_XPC_JAVASCRIPT_ERROR_WITH_DETAILS)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://albumartmanager/content/bindings/albumart.xml :: coverFetchSucceeded :: line 430" data: yes]

Error: this._popup is null
Source File: chrome://browser/content/search/search.xml
Line: 253

Also might be important for me to mention that, since this release, I have no art covers at all. It is not recognizing previously downloaded and saved ones, either, even though I have pointed it to the folder I use for album art.

Thanks so much for putting your effort into this. It's greatly adored and appreciated. :)

@ stevo

Yes it has title. And this issue is there since past lot of versions. I am not sure whats wrong. You want some debug logs/profile data etc? I see 450 albums in FilterPane view. But on AAM i see 447. Don't know why.

Thanks again.

Hi stevo. How do i get nightly for AAM ?
I think http://developer.songbirdnest.com/nightly/addons/linux/i686/ no longer has recent nightly. I see 1.5.4 there still.

@stevo: Thanks for your answer. I'll try to describe my problem in more details. Those are 2 different problems which cause the overwriting of my AA images. I store my album images in the same directory where the songs are located. The location of the file is %path_to_song%\%album% - front.jpg. Quite often I also have back covers stored in %path_to_song%\%album% - back.jpg. I want AAM to store the covers with the same naming scheme. This is not a problem. But it overwrites the already existing images. This is the first problem - AAM shouldn't overwrite already existing files.

The second problem is that if i let AAM fetch covers from my drive, it won't look for %path_to_song%\%album% - front.jpg but instead of it it will take the first picture from %path_to_song% directory (which is usually the back cover).

So these two problems will end up in the situation that AAM overwrites my front covers with back covers. Is it already clear?

Now I discovered another issue. I use the naming %album% - front.jpg because sometimes I have more albums in one directory. AAM will fetch only one cover per directory and use it for all albums.

hey, question

when i open up the addon i can't click the 'fetch missing covers' button, it just doesn't seem to highlight or respond to anything, i can get the album covers if i go through and right click and select get album cover for each one, but i'v got 1300 albums, don't fancy doing that, other than a last resort.

Hi stevo,

I decided to test the special characters causing the missing albums theory by recording a few mp3s and editing the details so that it said they came from albums titled just as special characters. There's definatly a problem with uppercase Æ as it didn't find that either in this test or in the album I linked to above. Suprising though it worked just fine for lowercase æ and the greek letters α and β. Those were the only ones I tried but I'd guess there must be other cases like Æ that could explain the the missing albums problem.

Thanks

I just tried it with a couple more greek letters, it found uppercase omega (Ω) but not lowercase omega (ω) and for some reason it's now found Æ though not the album starting with that I linked to above. Bizzare.

I am still getting the same problem as listed above. If I try to get from file system nothing happens and nothing shows up in the error console. If I try to get it from amazon I get the following:
Error: sbCoverDownloader: [ERROR] - Failed to extract the extension from : - TypeError: aURI.match(/\.[a-zA-Z0-9]+$/) is null
Source File: file:///home/david/.songbird2/jmsg8vcw.default/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbCoverDownloader.js
Line: 119
Error: downloadlocation is not defined
Source File: file:///home/david/.songbird2/jmsg8vcw.default/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbCoverDownloader.js
Line: 404
Error: downloadlocation is not defined
Source File: file:///home/david/.songbird2/jmsg8vcw.default/extensions/albumartmanager@songbirdnest.com/components/sbCoverDownloader.js
Line: 404

As a test I blew away my profile and started anew. I get the same problem with the same messages in the error console. This is on Ubuntu Gutsy and Songbird 0.7.

For some reason, the album X&Y by Coldplay doesn't show up in my Album Art Manager. Is this because of the ampersand or something?

Hi! I managed all my albuns in iTunes (I had to do it because I need it to sync with my iTouch) and I assigned album covers for all my albuns. But some of them appears ok here on songbird (with the addon) and some don´t, somebody knows what can it be? What am I doing wrong?

Do you have a ETA release date on version 2.1. Songbird isn't the same without your add-on!

Hi steve

I think there's a problem with this addon that is making some users to have a system freeze.

After I've disabled this addon, I havent have any more system freezes.

Here's the getsatisfaction.com track:
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/songbird_allways_freezes_on_ubuntu_while_playing_a_song

Hey, i got exactly the same problem on XP! I thought it was caused by my cheap onboard-graphics, thats why I didn't report earlier.

I have this problem with "album art manager" and with "album view"

Symptoms: Usually during the loading process, when the add-ons start displaying covers, my pc totally freeze. No movements on the screen, no ctrl-alt-del, can't even turn numlock on/off. No reactions at all. I have to do a hard reboot.

However, sometimes it doesn't freeze. I think it freeze about every 4-5th try. Now, that i know its not my graphic-chip, I will have an eye on it and look out for a pattern...

hey Stevo, do you have an ETC for enabling the fetcher?

I'm using Songbird 0.7 on Ubuntu 8, with Album Art Manager 2.0.2 and Last.FM Cover Fetcher 1.5.0.

Apart from the album art viewer in my side panel, I can't find the actual Album art manager, also it appears that the Last.FM Cover Fetcher doesn't work because I still don't have any album covers coming in, am I missing something here in how to use these add ons?

I did some testing on the system freeze. I now can reproduce it for my computer: If I scroll down the albums too fast (after all covers are loaded) i got that freeze. I ran a system-monitor beside songbird, and guess what? At the moment of the freeze, songbird needs more than 1.2GB(!) RAM. I have 1.5GB with shared memory. Same problem with "album view".

@stevo: yes, this might be the problem, I've got some big album-jpegs (up to 800x800px). It's good to know, that you are working on it. :-)

@stevo - no sweat mate. I have noticed your name around the place associated with various plugins and within the songbird community and i just wanted to THANK YOU for all the work you are doing as it certainly does not go unnoticed by us. I look forward to seeing everything you give for the future and combined with songbird i know we are going to have one kick arse music/media manager-player...

hi stevo thanks for heads up. I wish Fetch missing cover gets implemented sooner.
Please think about list by albums column.With current artist. From where i can nightly for this addon?

HI,

I'm using SOngbird 0.7 and the version 2.0.2 of Albu m Art Manager, but when I ask to have the cover, it didn't find covers, I have all my covers with a "grecy CD" instead of the cover.

THe error message:
sbAlbumArtManager: _filterAlbums Called
sbAlbumArtManager: No albums in the list!

Thanx for you help

A great add-on and a huge time saver. I'm old-fashioned in that I like to actually purchase the physical media, then rip digital copies myself, which means I don't often get album art by default. Being able to query Amazon for the artwork may not get all of 'em, but it gets most of 'em.

I'm very much looking forward to the coming features allowing for custom queries and the ability to choose which one is the correct one when multiple matches are returned.

Thank you, stevo, for adding a great feature to a great media player.

great plugin, but somehow now working to well on my mac (os 10.5.4 / songbird 0.7)
the "fetch missing cover" button is always disabled.
another thing really great would be, if the album art manager wouldn't always automatically load my complete liste of albums, rather than maybe only the playlist / genre / list i selected.. takes for ever everytime i launch it.
improvement very very appreciated - as said, great addon :)

sorry - reading through the posts i see my "problem" has been discussed already..
ignore it :)

using songbird 0.7 on vista, and when I right click on any album and select "get artwork from amazon" the icon just spins indefinitely and never gets any album art. same thing with last.fm. so I tried "get artwork from file system" and nothing happens! is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Hi!

Excellent add-on! But, the fetch from meta data is not working for me. I'm using Songbird 0.7.0 and AAM 2.0.2 on Mac OS Tiger, and have imported my iTunes library containing loads of songs with album art in the meta data. Yet, if I click on "Get artwork from Metadata" nothing happens..

Also, would it be possible to select more than one album at a time to fetch album art? I'm not looking forward to clicking about 2000 items ;)

p.s.: I saw someone mentioning fetching album art is not working when using USB drives. All my music is stored on an external drive connected via USB. Could that be the problem?

nice add-on! there's a bug when using 'get artwork from filesystem' it will often use one specific (false) cover. then i go to 'clear artwork' and to 'fetch artwork form amazon' and it will give me the wrong artwork from filesystem again. redoing the procedure one again will fix the artwork.

also PLEAAAASE ( ! ! ! ) make 'fetch missing covers' a top priority, because without it this add-on has hardly 10% of its usability!

Nice start but not very usable: all my covert art is on file system and to do this manually for each and every album is not realistic. I'll wait for another update and keep to my Itunes.

Nice add-on but a couple of requests from my own point of view. It would be nice to be able to remove a single artwork when there are multiple versions for an album instead of needing to clear all and then add them back in.

Secondly, is it possible to add a get album artwork from albumart.org? I've been using this for some more obscure albums: the size and quality of the covers seems superb.

i can't fetch my missing covers (the button is unavaible)
 why?

@stevo
Dunno if this means anything, but I find that the smaller the album art manager window, the faster it fetches the artwork at startup. Is it then a bad idea to have the art load without images first when one launches album art manager, then show the images on completion??

Hey can we have to 1.0.0rc1? =)

Hi Stevo,
thanks for this add-on, I miss it on 1.0.0.RC1 so much that I force-installed it :p

Good luck in getting it into the core application.

Is there a way to set it to be done automaticly?

I'm getting the same problem as jokerigno. The spot for "Fetch Missing Covers" isn't working at all. The only way for me to actually GET the album artwork is to painstakingly right click each album spot, and then left click the part of the drop down for Last.fm. Its kind of annoying, so if you could help me through this... that would be nice ^^

could you make it working on 1.0 RC3??

very nice plugin... or add-on?
any way, would be really good if this plugin can recongize the folder.* or cover.* files in each directory son the CD cover is display immediately

Would be great if it would work for v 1.0

Any idea how to get it to work?

as said by the original maker of this addon, it will not work for Songbird v1.0+ because he has stopped working on it. However, I have used this addon throughout its lifetime and i must say, a VERY GOOD addon :P. RIP Album Art Manager RIP.

Very Good

so there isn't any possibility to use Album Manger in Songbird 1.0?!?

damn. i hope i'm wrong

No it doesn't appear so. I guess we need to wait for Mozilla to include this in an official release.

Bummer!

Hey guys, I was wondering why I can't download this particular add-on. It says that it isn't compatible to Songbird.

the install button is grayed out, i cant download it

thank you so much work working so hard on returning album art manager's functionality to songbird. SB has the bones of a linux media platform champion, and its addons like this that really bring the functionality together. the SB team almost seems to be focusing on the windows platform more than us needing linux users. while they drag their feet fixing the linux bugs while implementing windows functionality, this in my opinion is one of if not the last big puzzle piece needed to really make this thing competitive.

look great

.

hm... i'm unable to install it. the button is greyed out. can somebody please help?

Please update this (and the discogs album fetcher) for sunbird 1.0.

i tried it myself, but I would need much more time for this than the actual creator. so please let us know if and when you update this.

sorry for the noise

kthxby

why can't I click on the "install" button?

If you read the text over the button carefully, you'll see that it says: "not compatible with your Songbird" version - hence the grey color!

Is this open source? If so, where can the source be found? I need a plugin of this type, so i'd like to start updating this if possible.

where do I get the plugin?

@Leefmc: You can get the source of the addon by downloading it with Firefox (right click on download --> save target as...). Then you have to rename the file from .xpi to .zip and extract it. There you have the source.
Would be nice if you update it!

@zeethrough: You have to click "Download" at the top of the page. This version isn't compatible to the newest version of Songbird...Maybe someone could update it.

Update for the newest songbird would be appreciated

I'm using Songbird 1.1.1 so I can't download the plugin (greyed) but I can't find it now integrated in Songbird 1.1 like stevo wrote he had mostly done in december 08. So am I to blind to find it (/View/Media Views I would assume) or is it not integrated yet?

Please make it compatible with 1.2.

Thank you