As various people have discovered, the SqueezeCenter scanner is not able to extract album cover art that has been downloaded from Apple iTunes store. This is because such downloaded art is stored by iTunes in a proprietary format that the scanner cannot interpret.
In order to overcome this problem, I created a small Windows application that automates iTunes (via its COM automation interfaces) to copy the downloaded artwork from its proprietary folder and save it (i.e. embed it) directly within the respective MP4 (M4A) files themselves. Since the latter embedded art is encoded in a non proprieatary way (i.e. according to the MPEG-4 standard), this tool enables the SqueezeCenter scanner to find and extract the respective artwork images from the music files in the normal way. You can download it here: http://www.whitebear.ch/music#iTunesArtFixer (look for iTunesArtFixer) Also my M4A Windows Explorer shell extension is here: http://www.whitebear.ch/music The iTunesArtFixer application requires iTunes to be installed on your PC, and it runs on Windows Vista and XP. -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndrewFG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15838 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53413 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
