Many independent record shops have hundreds or thousands of records online without a cover, or with the same placeholder image on every product. Vinilogy Covers finds those products, looks each record up in the Vinilogy catalogue and downloads its cover from Cover Art Archive.<\/p>\n\n
It needs a free Vinilogy key, which you request by email (see \"Installation\"), and it talks to the services listed under \"External services\".<\/p>\n\n
Nothing changes in your shop until you say so:<\/p>\n\n
How records are identified, from most to least reliable:<\/p>\n\n
Proposals with a confidence of 85 or more come pre-selected. In our test with 100 records from one shop, every pre-selected proposal was correct; always review the rest.<\/p>\n\n
Optional Discogs fallback.<\/strong> When Cover Art Archive has no image, the plugin can also use the Discogs cover from the Vinilogy catalogue. It is off by default: Discogs images are uploaded by its users and its terms restrict reusing them on other sites, so each shop decides. Every downloaded image records its source.<\/p>\n\n Vinilogy is a free comparison site for vinyl records sold by independent shops in Spain: https:\/\/www.vinilogy.com<\/p>\n\n This plugin relies on external services to find and download covers. It only contacts them after a shop administrator clicks \"Find products without a cover\", and then for each product in the queue (in the background, or while the Covers screen is open).<\/p>\n\n Vinilogy cover lookup<\/strong> \u2013 https:\/\/api.vinilogy.com (run by Vinilogy, https:\/\/www.vinilogy.com)\nUsed to identify each record and get the address of its cover.\nSent for each product without a cover: its barcode if it has one, otherwise the artist and title read from the product, plus the shop's Vinilogy key. No data about customers, orders or users is sent.\nTerms: https:\/\/www.vinilogy.com\/condiciones#portadas \u2013 Privacy: https:\/\/www.vinilogy.com\/privacidad#portadas<\/p>\n\n Cover Art Archive<\/strong> (run by the MetaBrainz Foundation and the Internet Archive) \u2013 https:\/\/coverartarchive.org\nThe cover image is downloaded from coverartarchive.org, which redirects to the Internet Archive (archive.org). The request carries the usual connection data (IP address of your server, user agent).\nTerms: https:\/\/musicbrainz.org\/doc\/About\/Data_License and https:\/\/archive.org\/about\/terms.php \u2013 Privacy: https:\/\/metabrainz.org\/privacy and https:\/\/archive.org\/about\/terms.php<\/p>\n\n Discogs<\/strong> (only if the shop turns on the fallback) \u2013 https:\/\/www.discogs.com\nThe cover image is downloaded from i.discogs.com. The request carries the usual connection data.\nTerms: https:\/\/support.discogs.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360009334593-API-Terms-of-Use \u2013 Privacy: https:\/\/support.discogs.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360009334513-Privacy-Policy<\/p>\n\n\n No. Covers are only downloaded to the media library; a product changes only when you approve its cover, and you can undo it.<\/p><\/dd>\n Products with no image, and products whose image is shared by many products (5 or more by default, adjustable), which is what a placeholder looks like. Products that already have their own cover are never touched, and if you set one by hand while a proposal is waiting, the proposal is dropped.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. The key is free and the plugin is free. Record shops are who Vinilogy is for.<\/p><\/dd>\n To your media library, attached to the product but not used as its image. If you discard a proposal, that file is deleted.<\/p><\/dd>\n How sure the match is, from 0 to 100. Hover over it to see why: a barcode match of the exact edition scores highest; a match by artist and title scores lower when several albums or artists share that name. Proposals at 85 or more come pre-selected.<\/p><\/dd>\n Discard it, or undo it after approving: the product goes back to the image it had. You can always set your own image in the product editor, as usual.<\/p><\/dd>\n It sets the cover of the parent product, like any other product. Variations keep their own images.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes: the record is then identified by artist and title. A SKU is only treated as a barcode when it is a valid EAN\/UPC (8, 12, 13 or 14 digits with a correct check digit).<\/p><\/dd>\n Covers are fetched in the background by WordPress scheduled tasks. If your host has them disabled (DISABLE_WP_CRON), keep the Album covers screen open until the search finishes, or run Either Vinilogy does not have that record, or it has no cover image. Check that the product name has the artist and the title, or add a barcode, and use \"Search again\" at the bottom of the screen.<\/p><\/dd>\n Their labels and artists. Record shops use them to show the album they sell. Cover Art Archive collects them for that kind of use; check its terms and, if you turn on the Discogs fallback, Discogs' terms.<\/p><\/dd>\n Its settings, queue and pending downloads are removed. Covers you already approved stay on your products; each image keeps a note of where it came from (Cover Art Archive or Discogs) in its custom fields, so you can find and remove them later if you ever need to.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes, with WP-CLI: Write to hola@vinilogy.com. Please do not open a public issue.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\nExternal services<\/h3>\n\n
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Will it change my products without asking?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What counts as \"without a cover\"?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it cost anything?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Where do the covers go before I approve them?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What does the confidence number mean?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What if a cover is wrong?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it work with variable products?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
My SKUs are not barcodes. Does it still work?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
The search does not advance when I close the page<\/h3><\/dt>\n
wp vinicov procesar<\/code>.<\/p><\/dd>\nA product says \"Not found\". What now?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Who owns the covers?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What happens when I delete the plugin?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it work from the command line?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
wp vinicov buscar<\/code> (queue products without a cover), wp vinicov procesar<\/code> (fetch covers), wp vinicov ok --confianza=85<\/code> (approve all with that confidence or more), wp vinicov estado<\/code> (counts by state).<\/p><\/dd>\nHow do I report a security issue?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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