If you've used MuvUnder Cover: The Album Art Sleuth, perhaps you've found a bug, or you've got an idea for new or enhanced functionality. This is the place to tell us!
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5 votes
Add the ability to search for covers on disk under review
I have a local folder containing a large number of covers in %artist%.%album% format. It would be great to be able to add a local folder search using a user specified template. I'm guessing different people name their cover files differently, i.e. %artist% - %album% or simply %album%. Some sort of fuzzy logic so that if it can't find any files, it might return the "most likely", either based on just the %artist% or other keyword.
To clarify...
I have (and I can't be the only one) a single folder containing a large number of album covers and I also have some in the album folders themselves. It would be useful to have the search function perform
1. search the album folder
2. search a specified local folder
3. search the 'netUsers store their music in different ways, so variables to depict the users folder structure would be useful, i.e.
m:\music\%artist%.%album% if stored in each album or
c:\music\album artwork if stored in a fixed location.The nomenclature used for artwork, could also be depicted as variables, %artist%.%album% or %album%.
I would also suggest an option to copy the artwork and store in the album folder... perhaps using a naming convention depicted by a variable.
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5 votes
Word and parentheses filtering under review
Ok, I'm not quit sure which combination of tags MuvUnder does to find the covers. If it's Artist + Album Name OR Artist + Album Name + Title OR Album Artist + Title but whichever the combination, the program (and all other cover program for that matter) always fail to find covers whenever a title have extra words like "featuring" and/or it contains parentheses/brackets like in john doe - mary (doe rmx).
One of the big hurdle in cover art programs finding proper covers for most of a collection depends on tags; any little e, or a, missing here and there can throw the program off. Now, there are a few genre of music which are hard to find covers automatically for because of the extras that are writen on the tags and also because Amazon and others write the name on their site differently: Hip-Hop, R&B, Reggae and Dance (sub genre...house, techno, jungle, etc...). As you can notice, most Hip-Hop and R&b songs have a "featuring" artist and 90% of Dance music are "Remix". These words are often writen fully or have a series of abbreviation like "feat.", "featuring", "ft.", "remix", "rmx", etc... and just because of these add up in the end of the title of a track, throws the matching off.
<Bob Sinclar - World Hold On> is easy to find but <Bob Sinclar - World Hold On (Benny Bros Rmx)> is not, however all the program needs to read is <Bob Sinclar - World Hold On> ignoring the parentheses. Same for <Jay-Z - Swagga Like Us> that's easy but once the program bumps into <Jay-Z feat. T.I., Lil' Wayne and Kanye West - Swagga Like Us (Rmx)> it doesn't find the cover, when actually it's the same song from the same album.
So, if there was a way to add a feature where the user could set a series of filtering/macro by telling the program to ignore certain parts of the tags then the level of return for these noted genres would be higher, extremely higher for Dance music. That way, the program would have the bare artist and title to look for. <Jay-Z feat. T.I., Lil' Wayne and Kanye West - Swagga Like Us (Rmx)> would become <Jay-Z - Swagga Like Us> once the user set a filter to ignore parentheses, brackets and the words: Feat, Featuring, Ft., Rmx, remix, mix, etc.. -
3 votes
Ability to clear existing embedded album covers under review
add "Clear Existing Embedded Album Covers" as well to the context menu if there are any present - with a confirmation - optionally write the covers to a files for backup purposes to prevent acidents...
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3 votes
Add "Browse for Album Cover" on context menu under review
Add "Browse for Album Cover" on right click context menu of each album.
Useful if you actually have some decent covers already that you want to embed into tracks.
This would supplement the ability to drag and drop which people may not know about. being able have a file prompt show to be specific to the album makes this feature request nice (especially for those of us that don't have dual monitors or don't like to overlay two applications (MUC and Explorer)).
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2 votes
Add fullsize image preview and mouse click-and-hold
Add large image preview when user clicks and holds left mouse button on image or on radio button for specific image. Useful for seeing a higher level of detail without wanting to zoom all of the images.
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0 votes
Ability to filter by tag contents would be useful
The ability to filter by tag contents (such as genre or artist) would be useful
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0 votes
Ability to view/edit tags
Probably outside the scope of this app, but it would be good to be able to click the album or a button below the album to bring up it's the album contents in a "pop-up" window along with any present/available tags for the present tracks, which could then be edited (an option to go find tag contents from the net would be cool).
