[pkscout]

New Beta Available

available at https://github.com/pkscout/script.artist...master.zip

v.1.5.3.007
- musicbrainz lookup ignores anything after '(' in title of local song or local album
- fixed structure of musicbrainz search to produce better results
- added advanced feature to exclude files from download
- now save musicbrainz ID in memory to reduce drive reads
- additional error catching across the board
- updated cache manager to leave .nfo files intact

v.1.5.3.003 - 006
various fixes

v.1.5.3.002
- artist bio and album list now come from theaudiodb.com by default (Last.fm as fallback)
- added download of images from fanart.tv
- added download of images from theaudiodb.com

v.1.5.3.001
- added musicbrainz ID support
- rearranged settings some to make options clearer
- dropped support for htbackdrops.com (site gone)

A brief word about excluding files from download. This feature has no interface and requires that the file you want to exclude is downloaded once so that you can get the name of the file. Basically in each artist's cache directory is a file called _exclusions.nfo (or at least the directory will include it once AS displays images for the artist the first time). You add to that text file any filename in the given directory you don't want downloaded. AS will then delete the file and not download it again.

This is something I've wanted for myself so that if there are one or two artist images I don't like I can still download new images for that artist. It works fine for what I want to do, so I'm probably not going to figure out any pretty GUI way of managing the exclusion files. It will be documented in the wiki, but I won't really advertise it other than that. Consider it an Easter Egg.