AndrewFG;346750 Wrote: 
> 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.

OK, I tried it and it doesn't work for me.  I keep My Documents (and
hence My Music and iTunes library XML, etc) on a drive other than my C
drive.  Apparantly your application doesn't locate it if it's not on
the C drive?

andyg;348162 Wrote: 
> FYI, SC 7.3 now supports iTunes downloaded artwork natively.  So far, it
> is working on Mac.  I'll be adding Windows support in a few days.

Well that's awesome news!  Any idea when 7.3 will officially be
released?

Cheers!


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