Ability to Enter a Custom Search String for Missing Album Art
For instance, some of my albums have extra info in the album name such as (2009 Remaster). When bliss searches for album art, it includes this extra info in the search and (most of the time) doesn't find the album art. It would be nice if I could edit the search string that is being used (basically just to remove this extra info) so that I could get the proper art. A step further might be to have this happen automatically if no art is found, but that is probably asking too much.
Drew
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Joe
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Excellent idea! Perhaps if it doesn't find any results it leaves off things in brackets and offers a 'did you mean...' list to choose from?
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Andy Fitter commented
This would be a great addition. Have so many live recordings etc that have no cover art - at the moment I have to drop out to a google window, manually search for something appropriate, and then copy and past an image URL into bliss.
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Drew
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Exactly, using the album tag as a starting point would be great. If bliss could make those extra queries automatically, that would be even better. Personally, I always but extra info in parenthesis, but I have seen people use brackets as well (both [] and {}). If it could perform a search sans the part of the album name inside these separators, that would be awesome.
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Yeah, it's a good idea. I noticed this most on classical recordings, where conductors, soloists etc sometimes appear in the album title and it makes it more difficult to find the art.
It would be good to allow a custom search as a fallback. I suppose it could be pre-populated with the names to make it easy to strip off the tricky parts of the name.
It's not necessarily too much to expect bliss to make extra queries: it does this already in some cases e.g. swapping alphabetic with numeric numbers and stripping of disc number artifacts like 'CD2' and 'Disc one'
