Not sure when this happened, I just noticed when I set it to open up the album for the current song. Anyways, I seem to remember editing the album (Marking as a compilation specificly) set the tags for every song in that album to match. If it ever did it ain't working now.

I take it no one has any ideas about this? Am I just hallucinating that it used to mark all songs with the same album name as compilations before?

All songs in the album need to have the same album image (or no album image) in order for checking the compilation checkbox in the editor to work and set the compilation value for all the songs in the album.

So to get it to work when all songs do not have the same album image you need to edit a song from the compilation - make sure Compilation is cheked and then click SetImageForAll...then uncheck and check Compilation again for it to update the compilation value on all the songs.

Hmmm... They should all be the same image since I save the image from allmusic then inject it with tag&rename but I'll give it a whirl

eJukebox v3.90 will support the dropping of album images on the song editor to automatically encode the image in the ID3 tag.

This way you will not need to click the "Use Image from..." button and enter the file path or url. Instead, you can just find your cover image online...drag it from the web page and drop it on the album image in the editor. eJukebox will then instantly set the dragged image as the album image in eJukebox's database and the ID3 tag.

You will also be able to drop images from a web page or local file on the eJukebox CD Ripper in v3.90.

Will it set the dragged image as default for all songs in that album? Sounds superb anyway..

RE: Will it set the dragged image as default for all songs in that album? Sounds superb anyway..

It will if you click the "SetImage4All" button that appears after you change the album cover on the song. That button only appears when songs in the same album have different images.

We also have updated the look of the eJukebox song editor for v3.90 to make it easier to use and understand the advanced features such as the 'Set 4 All' Genre, Year and Album Image buttons.

Glad that you are improving the tag editor Made me think about something by the way:

A friend of mine tested out ejukebox recently and reacted negativly on that the autolookup feature edited his tags in addtion to often finding the wrong coverimage.

Are there any plans on making the autolookup more precise (more exact match maybe through several tagfields like artist and albumname for instance. If no match is found, then do nothing and suggest the user to encode the images themselves) and make it so it doesn't change/edit the tags, which often are perfectly set up even if the coverimage is lacking. I think this would make it easier to get started with ejukebox...

Hope this can be looked into for 4.0 at least, as it seems like it can frustrate new users a lot...

Yeah I would agree with Fishy - I am still nervous with how eJukebox interacts with my tags. Maybe an Internet Explorer type approach (security settings) where you have different "interactive settings":

Off: nothing is touched! ie write protect

Low: Only 100% accurate match allows any change (ie on title, album AND artist)

Medium: Only missing information is added ie album cover, year, genre etc;

High: As is currently - if eJukebox thinks it knows better it adds, and updates the info.

I would love this.....

Sounds like a great idea, ochristmas! Seems like it would provide great flexibility for the user.

Thanks,
Steve

Yes agreed on ochristmas... At least the autolookup feature is the first thing that many users meet with ej.. And belive me, the feedback about this function is extreamly negative from the people I've recommended it for.. And some have abonded the program just because of it Too bad for them, because they never got to discover the power of this great program just beacause of this...


General complaints i've heard:

1. People really hate that it finds the wrong cover image.

2. Even more they hate that the wrong image is encoded into the mp3's.. Without any confirmation..

3. But most of all they dislike that the mp3's are edited ("hacked" as one named it) to something different than the user has set the tags to.. This is not a field to challenge users on really...

Sadly it just doesn't help that I show how great ej can work when propely setup.. I know that all of my tags are set up by hand and most users doesn't have the patience for that. So it seems kindof essiential that the autolookup feature works ok? Don't know?

Ej is a fantastic plugin and doesn't deserve to make a negative first impression on new users.. So I hope this will be evaluted before the 4.0 release.

Just thoughts... Hope that these critics are seen as constructive..

hm, I've obviously misunderstood the technically details around this. I realize that it is troublesome.. Sometimes a user got the albumname right and nothing at the artist... And sometime vicaverca.. Don't got a constructive suggestion on this, wish I had really.. But is it possible to make it so when all realevant tags are set correct, then it would look up at amazon? Just grab the image data and nothing more?

Don't want to be a nag at all.. Just wanted to bring this to your attention.. It's great to hear that you are concidering alternative sollutions at least...

Keep up the good work!

sounds great - it would definitely get my vote. Also if it was XML does this mean it would be user configurable?