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Search for Artwork

The Search for Artwork menu provides various means of searching for artwork.

All imported artwork honours the auto scaling options in Settings - Artwork - General.

The menu may display a submenu called Actions. Any action which is marked as being on the Search menu in the Action Manager will be included in this menu. This is a convenience to quickly locate actions which are designed to extend the capabilities of the Search mechanism. Selecting an action will run the action.

By default, selecting an menu item on the Actions submenu will run the associated action. If the Option key (configurable in Settings - General - Advanced - Modifiers to display function submenus) is held when a menu item is selected, a submenu with the following items will be displayed:

Edit...
This menu item will open the selected action in an Action Editor window.

Locate...
This menu item will open the Action Manager and the selected action will be highlighted.

The name of the action
If selected, the displayed action will be run.

The menu provides access to the auto search functionality via the Auto Search for Artwork menu item.

The User Defined submenu lists all user defined search templates. You can find additional information on search templates in Settings - Search Templates. Selecting one of these items, will apply the search template. If the Option key (configurable in Settings - General - Advanced - Modifiers to display function submenus) is held when a search template item is selected, a submenu with the following items will be displayed:

Edit...
The search template will be displayed in the appropriate template editor.

Locate...
The search template will be highlighted in the appropriate settings section.

Set / Clear as Default
The selected item will either set as the default search template or will be cleared from being the default search template.
The name of the search template
The selected search template will be applied.

The Default Search menu item will apply the search template set as the default. If the Option key (configurable in Settings - General - Advanced - Modifiers to display function submenus) is held when Default Search is selected, a submenu with the following items will be displayed:

Edit...
The default search template will be displayed in the appropriate template editor.

Clear as Default
The current association of a default search template will be cleared.
The name of the default search template
The default search template will be applied.

The remaining menu items pertain to the loading of images from online data sources where the images are either accessed by MusicBrainz or Discogs Release Ids.

The following sources can be designated for the search:

fanart.tv

    Requires a Fanart.tv API key.

Cover Art Archive

Discogs

    Requires Yate to have been authenticated to access Discogs.

All of the above

Various options apply to all of these retrieval methods. The options are available from the Fanart.tv, Cover Art Archive, Discogs Settings menu item.