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Album Cover Art Downloader
http://kempele.fi/~skyostil/projects/albumart
Here's a program that will semi-automatically download album
cover images for your music collection. All you have to do
is point it at the root of your music directory and for each
directory, the program will download a set of corresponding
(well, best guess) album covers from the Internet, from
which you can choose one that suits your fancy.
Currently supported image providers:
* Amazon.com
* Yahoo! Images
* Wal-Mart
* Buy.com
At least the following programs make use of the cover
images:
* KDE, GNOME and others that follow the FreeDesktop.org
.desktop-entry spec
* Windows XP Explorer
* Windows Media Player 9+
* CDcover, an XMMS plugin
* CoverViewer, another XMMS plugin.
* wmalbum, a WindowMaker dock applet
* Various WinAMP plugins, for example ShowCover.
In addition, some portable music players can show the cover
image if it is embedded in the MP3 file.
Usage
Click File | Open and navigate to the directory containing
the albums you want to find cover images for. The program
will load all the music files under the path you chose and
sort them into albums.
If you are feeling lazy, just select Edit | Select All
followed by Edit | Download missing cover images and sit
back while the program downloads covers for all the
directories lacking them. The automatic downloader only
accepts exact matches while searching covers, so it may miss
some directories.
To set a cover manually, pick a directory from the list and
check that the artist and album fields at the top-right
corner are sensible. Now click Download Covers. After a few
seconds you should see a list of cover images on the right.
If no images are found, try to simplify the artist and album
fields (e.g. clear the album field completely). You can also
drop an image from your file manager on the list to use that
one.
Go ahead and choose a suitable cover from the list. Finally,
click Set as Cover to confirm your choice. You can also drag
and drop the cover image on the albums or music files of your
choice.
Command line options
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-d, --download
Download covers for the given path.
-x, --delete
Remove covers below the given path.
-s, --synchronize
Synchronizes all covers below the given path.
-H, --hidden
Don't show a progress dialog while working.
-i, --summary
Show summary information when done.
Internals
The cover images are in one or more of the following places:
* folder.jpg for Windows XP
* .folder.png and an Icon entry in .directory for
Konqueror, etc.
* ID3v2 APIC frame, which is embedded into the MP3 files.
* Additional custom image targets are supported