maggior;508760 Wrote: > Sorry about that - you're right, this is the Linux forum. > > I think you indirectly have an answer - I don't think there are any > sofisticated tools to download artwork on Linux. You may have to use a > Windows client (I use my Vista laptop) and save the artwork to your > Linux machine via a SAMBA share. This is how I do it.
Actually, there is a cross-platform, open source program called "Album Cover Art Downloader" (http://www.unrealvoodoo.org/hiteck/projects/albumart/) that I find works pretty well. You can use it with varying degrees of automation from selecting your entire music folder and having it go look for the cover art to manually dragging and dropping cover art onto a folder. A lot of how well the automatic process works depends on the naming / tagging of files. I've found that it works better for mp3 files than flac files. It has a lot of options for how you want the album art to work (embed within tags/files; call it cover.jpg, folder.jpg, etc.; set size of file) Unfortunately, there is one problem with this program (at least for me). It used to be able to pull the cover art from Amazon, which I find to have the best art for my needs. However, due a fairly recent change to Amazon's API it no longer works. I now mostly use it by going to Amazon, finding the cover art, and then manually dragging and dropping on the folder in question. -- soxfan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ soxfan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5697 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74303 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
