About this plugin
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.
It needs a free Vinilogy key, which you request by email (see “Installation”), and it talks to the services listed under “External services”.
Nothing changes in your shop until you say so:
- Covers are downloaded to your media library and wait for your review.
- Each proposal shows the album found, why it was matched and a confidence score.
- Approve them one by one, the ones you select, or all above a confidence level.
- Anything you approve can be undone; discarded downloads are deleted.
How records are identified, from most to least reliable:
- Barcode (EAN/UPC), read from the usual barcode fields or from the SKU when it is a valid barcode: the cover of that very edition.
- Artist and title, read from product attributes or from the product name. Shop habits such as “SURNAME, NAME”, “(LP, 180g)”, “– COLOURED VINYL” or used-condition notes in the name (“VG+”) are cleaned up before searching.
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.
Optional Discogs fallback. 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.
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External services
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).
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Used to identify each record and get the address of its cover.
Sent 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.
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