Notice

As of 08.15.2009, Amazon has requested that all API calls be signed to contact their servers. Thus, you'll need to download version 1.5 of Create CoverSearch to be able to download covers from Amazon servers.

Help on Create CoverSearch

Contents

Quick guide

Downloading and Installing
Starting up / Configuration
Searching for covers
Saving covers

Advanced guide

Using regular expressions (regex)

Quick guide

Downloading and Installing

Welcome to Create CoverSearch ! To use create CoverSearch, you need to download the program first. To do so, go to the Download Page an automated offline installer (all users), or a zip file (advanced users - no install needed). An automated online installer (for users of Internet Explorer) is available from

One downloaded (offline installer or zip) , double-click the file you have retrieved. Follow the instructions on the screen, or unzip the archive to a folder of your choice, and finally run the program by either clicking the shortcut or the program '.exe' file.

You're done ! Create COversearch should have been installed without problems. Otherwise, contact me at createcorpsoftware(@)yahoo.fr (remove brackets)

Starting up / Configuration

One launched, the program displays the main window. Normally, the default configuration perfectly suits a typical use, but you can access the setting by clicking 'Settings' button, in the bottom-right corner of the window.

Once ready, click the '...' button to choose the base folder of your library : for example, if your music is stored in "My DOcuments\My music", select this folder and click Ok. Finally, click 'Find directories missing album art' to get a list of folders missing covers

A list will be created of all the folders which contain music files, without containing cover art files. You can aditionaly set the maximum size in pixels of cover files.

Searching for covers

To search for a cover, double-click the corresponding folder, or select it and click 'Search for a cover illustration'. A list of results is displayed in the right part of the window.

Saving covers

Finally, to save a cover file, double-click it. The file is saved to the name specified in the settings panel, and the corresponding entry, removed from the list of folders missing album art.

Advanced guide

Using regular expressions (regex)

Create CoverSearch guesses album name and artist name based on the structure of your foder tree. That is, it analyses the path to every folder to determine the name of the corresponding artist and album.

To do this, it applies a 'regular expression' scheme to every folder name : for example, suppose the path is:

C:\Music\Scorpions\Eye To Eye

And the regular expression:

\$artist\$album

The corresponding match is deduced:

... \$artist \$album
C:\Music \Scorpions \Eye To Eye

The related artist name would be Scorpions, and album name Eye To Eye.

Note that you can also use the $dummy operator to remove a part of the string
For example:

... \$artist - $album [$dummy]
C:\Music \Scorpions - Eye To Eye [1999]

This way, from C:\Music\Scorpions - Eye To Eye [1999] you get Artist: Sorpions and Album: Eye to Eye


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