Would Filemaker be Good For?

#1

Data Base for Books -to go out to the Internet get Book Cover Picture
and put on a Card for the Book?

#2

Hwy101 wrote:

Quote:

Data Base for Books -to go out to the Internet get Book Cover Picture
and put on a Card for the Book?

No reason not.

I am presently doing a similar project for my music. With several
hundred CDs in a jukebox, I don't have the jewel cases handy to refer
to for song selection. I am grabbing cover art and song titles,
sometimes from more than one source. The end result will be a printed
reference in a three-ring binder.

With a lot of records, it is somewhat time consuming to do it manually.
If you can rely on a good source for the images (that is to say, one
which has a consistent and predictable naming convention for the
images) you might consider a plugin like yooWeb, which can retrieve an
image from the internet and place it in a container field (in addition
to the complete text of a web page).

Matt

#3

Here's an idea... why not do a search for the artist and or album name on
Google images, snag the results page and present in FileMaker... then click
on the image you want to use as cover art?

"Matt Wills" <Im (AT) Witz (DOT) End> wrote

Quote:

Hwy101 wrote:

Data Base for Books -to go out to the Internet get Book Cover Picture
and put on a Card for the Book?

No reason not.

I am presently doing a similar project for my music. With several
hundred CDs in a jukebox, I don't have the jewel cases handy to refer
to for song selection. I am grabbing cover art and song titles,
sometimes from more than one source. The end result will be a printed
reference in a three-ring binder.

With a lot of records, it is somewhat time consuming to do it manually.
If you can rely on a good source for the images (that is to say, one
which has a consistent and predictable naming convention for the
images) you might consider a plugin like yooWeb, which can retrieve an
image from the internet and place it in a container field (in addition
to the complete text of a web page).

Matt

#4

Not sure I'm following you.

Presently, I will go to AllMusic.com or sometimes CDNow.com, search for
the album, copy the image and paste it into the FM container.

Matt

Bill Marriott wrote:

Quote:

Here's an idea... why not do a search for the artist and or album
name on Google images, snag the results page and present in
FileMaker... then click on the image you want to use as cover art?

"Matt Wills" <Im (AT) Witz (DOT) End> wrote in message
news:3zzkf.657$605.104 (AT) trndny09 (DOT) ..
Hwy101 wrote:

Data Base for Books -to go out to the Internet get Book Cover
Picture and put on a Card for the Book?

No reason not.

I am presently doing a similar project for my music. With several
hundred CDs in a jukebox, I don't have the jewel cases handy to
refer to for song selection. I am grabbing cover art and song
titles, sometimes from more than one source. The end result will be
a printed reference in a three-ring binder.

With a lot of records, it is somewhat time consuming to do it
manually. If you can rely on a good source for the images (that is
to say, one which has a consistent and predictable naming
convention for the images) you might consider a plugin like yooWeb,
which can retrieve an image from the internet and place it in a
container field (in addition to the complete text of a web page).

Matt

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#5

Ok, sometimes Site A has the pic you want, sometimes Site B has the pic you
want, and sometimes it's found out in the wild blue yonder on Google. You
never have a predictable URL to use.

So you write a script to have your yooWeb plug-in take the contents of the
artist field and album field, then perform multiple searches for them on
multiple sites. Aggregate and distill the results (often in a predictable
format) so that you have a list of pictures, which you can then browse
through and click the one you want to use. That one gets put into your
container field.

Clearer?

"Matt Wills" <Im (AT) Witz (DOT) End> wrote

Quote:

Not sure I'm following you.

Presently, I will go to AllMusic.com or sometimes CDNow.com, search for
the album, copy the image and paste it into the FM container.

Matt

Bill Marriott wrote:

Here's an idea... why not do a search for the artist and or album
name on Google images, snag the results page and present in
FileMaker... then click on the image you want to use as cover art?

"Matt Wills" <Im (AT) Witz (DOT) End> wrote in message
news:3zzkf.657$605.104 (AT) trndny09 (DOT) ..
Hwy101 wrote:

Data Base for Books -to go out to the Internet get Book Cover
Picture and put on a Card for the Book?

No reason not.

I am presently doing a similar project for my music. With several
hundred CDs in a jukebox, I don't have the jewel cases handy to
refer to for song selection. I am grabbing cover art and song
titles, sometimes from more than one source. The end result will be
a printed reference in a three-ring binder.

With a lot of records, it is somewhat time consuming to do it
manually. If you can rely on a good source for the images (that is
to say, one which has a consistent and predictable naming
convention for the images) you might consider a plugin like yooWeb,
which can retrieve an image from the internet and place it in a
container field (in addition to the complete text of a web page).

Matt

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#6

Much clearer, thanks.

Matt

Bill Marriott wrote:

Quote:

Ok, sometimes Site A has the pic you want, sometimes Site B has the
pic you want, and sometimes it's found out in the wild blue yonder on
Google. You never have a predictable URL to use.

So you write a script to have your yooWeb plug-in take the contents
of the artist field and album field, then perform multiple searches
for them on multiple sites. Aggregate and distill the results (often
in a predictable format) so that you have a list of pictures, which
you can then browse through and click the one you want to use. That
one gets put into your container field.

Clearer?

"Matt Wills" <Im (AT) Witz (DOT) End> wrote in message
news:M%Ckf.1390$ew5.1195 (AT) trndny04 (DOT) ..
Not sure I'm following you.

Presently, I will go to AllMusic.com or sometimes CDNow.com, search
for the album, copy the image and paste it into the FM container.

Matt

Bill Marriott wrote:

Here's an idea... why not do a search for the artist and or album
name on Google images, snag the results page and present in
FileMaker... then click on the image you want to use as cover art?

"Matt Wills" <Im (AT) Witz (DOT) End> wrote in message
news:3zzkf.657$605.104 (AT) trndny09 (DOT) ..
Hwy101 wrote:

Data Base for Books -to go out to the Internet get Book Cover
Picture and put on a Card for the Book?

No reason not.

I am presently doing a similar project for my music. With several
hundred CDs in a jukebox, I don't have the jewel cases handy to
refer to for song selection. I am grabbing cover art and song
titles, sometimes from more than one source. The end result will
be >>> a printed reference in a three-ring binder.

With a lot of records, it is somewhat time consuming to do it
manually. If you can rely on a good source for the images (that
is >>> to say, one which has a consistent and predictable naming
convention for the images) you might consider a plugin like
yooWeb, >>> which can retrieve an image from the internet and place
it in a >>> container field (in addition to the complete text of a
web page).

Matt

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#7

In article <M%Ckf.1390$ew5.1195@trndny04>, "Matt Wills" <Im (AT) Witz (DOT) End>
wrote:

Quote:

Not sure I'm following you.

Presently, I will go to AllMusic.com or sometimes CDNow.com, search for
the album, copy the image and paste it into the FM container.

Another place to "borrow" images from is Amazon.com.

BUT, it is illegal to use these images without permission. Most
companies overlook people's personal use, but you can't sell your
database (eg. shareware solution) to others while it's stealing images
in this way.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

#8

Bill, this 'yooWeb plug-in' work with Filemaker 6?
(Thanks Everyone for the Ideas -Still Learning what I need, and can, Do.

Tom

Bill Marriott wrote:

Quote:

Ok, sometimes Site A has the pic you want, sometimes Site B has the pic you
want, and sometimes it's found out in the wild blue yonder on Google. You
never have a predictable URL to use.

So you write a script to have your yooWeb plug-in take the contents of the
artist field and album field, then perform multiple searches for them on
multiple sites. Aggregate and distill the results (often in a predictable
format) so that you have a list of pictures, which you can then browse
through and click the one you want to use. That one gets put into your
container field.

Clearer?

"Matt Wills" <Im (AT) Witz (DOT) End> wrote in message
news:M%Ckf.1390$ew5.1195 (AT) trndny04 (DOT) ..

Not sure I'm following you.

Presently, I will go to AllMusic.com or sometimes CDNow.com, search for
the album, copy the image and paste it into the FM container.

Matt

Bill Marriott wrote:

Here's an idea... why not do a search for the artist and or album
name on Google images, snag the results page and present in
FileMaker... then click on the image you want to use as cover art?

"Matt Wills" <Im (AT) Witz (DOT) End> wrote in message
news:3zzkf.657$605.104 (AT) trndny09 (DOT) ..

Hwy101 wrote:

Data Base for Books -to go out to the Internet get Book Cover
Picture and put on a Card for the Book?

No reason not.

I am presently doing a similar project for my music. With several
hundred CDs in a jukebox, I don't have the jewel cases handy to
refer to for song selection. I am grabbing cover art and song
titles, sometimes from more than one source. The end result will be
a printed reference in a three-ring binder.

With a lot of records, it is somewhat time consuming to do it
manually. If you can rely on a good source for the images (that is
to say, one which has a consistent and predictable naming
convention for the images) you might consider a plugin like yooWeb,
which can retrieve an image from the internet and place it in a
container field (in addition to the complete text of a web page).

Matt

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#9

YoWeeb is presently 7 only, but the developer implies that they might
put out a 6 version if there was enough interest. That probably doesn't
help you. http://www.YooPlugs.com.

Meanwhile, a similar plug is available (Troi URL) that has been out
there since 5/6. Slightly more expensive. http://www.troi.com

Matt

Hwy101 wrote:

Quote:

Bill, this 'yooWeb plug-in' work with Filemaker 6?
(Thanks Everyone for the Ideas -Still Learning what I need, and can,
Do.

Tom

Bill Marriott wrote:
Ok, sometimes Site A has the pic you want, sometimes Site B has the
pic you want, and sometimes it's found out in the wild blue yonder
on Google. You never have a predictable URL to use.

So you write a script to have your yooWeb plug-in take the contents
of the artist field and album field, then perform multiple
searches for them on multiple sites. Aggregate and distill the
results (often in a predictable format) so that you have a list of
pictures, which you can then browse through and click the one you
want to use. That one gets put into your container field.

Clearer?

"Matt Wills" <Im (AT) Witz (DOT) End> wrote in message
news:M%Ckf.1390$ew5.1195 (AT) trndny04 (DOT) ..

Not sure I'm following you.

Presently, I will go to AllMusic.com or sometimes CDNow.com,
search for the album, copy the image and paste it into the FM
container.

Matt

Bill Marriott wrote:

Here's an idea... why not do a search for the artist and or
album name on Google images, snag the results page and present
in FileMaker... then click on the image you want to use as
cover art?

"Matt Wills" <Im (AT) Witz (DOT) End> wrote in message
news:3zzkf.657$605.104 (AT) trndny09 (DOT) ..

Hwy101 wrote:

Data Base for Books -to go out to the Internet get Book
Cover Picture and put on a Card for the Book?

No reason not.

I am presently doing a similar project for my music. With
several hundred CDs in a jukebox, I don't have the jewel
cases handy to refer to for song selection. I am grabbing
cover art and song titles, sometimes from more than one
source. The end result will be a printed reference in a
three-ring binder.

With a lot of records, it is somewhat time consuming to do it
manually. If you can rely on a good source for the images
(that is to say, one which has a consistent and predictable
naming convention for the images) you might consider a plugin
like yooWeb, which can retrieve an image from the internet
and place it in a container field (in addition to the
complete text of a web page).

Matt

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#10

Quote:

images) you might consider a plugin like yooWeb, which can retrieve an

But the risk there yooplugs is a "hidden" company. No contact info except
email.

Their domain name registrant is hidden. Put your money there and they could
disapeer over night.

We will have an updated plugin to handle this. Youseful Software has been
around for 10 years next year. We have phone numbers and addresses.

Joe Mele
www.youseful.com

"Matt Wills" <Im (AT) Witz (DOT) End> wrote

Quote:

Hwy101 wrote:

Data Base for Books -to go out to the Internet get Book Cover Picture
and put on a Card for the Book?

No reason not.

I am presently doing a similar project for my music. With several
hundred CDs in a jukebox, I don't have the jewel cases handy to refer
to for song selection. I am grabbing cover art and song titles,
sometimes from more than one source. The end result will be a printed
reference in a three-ring binder.

With a lot of records, it is somewhat time consuming to do it manually.
If you can rely on a good source for the images (that is to say, one
which has a consistent and predictable naming convention for the
images) you might consider a plugin like yooWeb, which can retrieve an
image from the internet and place it in a container field (in addition
to the complete text of a web page).

Matt