soxfan;508890 Wrote: > 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.
This is interesting. Regarding the Amazon API issue - I ran into this with Media Monkey, but they updated the code very quickly. Is Album Cover Art Downloader not being actively supported since it still hasn't been updated with the new Amazon API? -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 4 Booms, 1 duet, 1 receiver. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.3.3, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave. Current library stats: 30,015 songs, 2,448 albums, 451 artists. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74303 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
