RE: Re: Cover art software?

["Kevin Hawkins" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am not sure if Xlobby will recover the cover art from the ID3 tag Mark -
if not I know I used a utility on the Slim Devices site (3rd party add ins
or something) that ran as a standalone but created a cover.jpg file in each
of my music folders - it may have been in Perl though. On the way I did try
a product called "Gotcha Covered"  but with it was a bit tedious
to set up
and I only gave it a few mins - it used to run for a while and then hang or
crash on me.  I think Tag and Rename may do this now too but perhaps not as
a batch task.   Poss J Rivers Media centre ??

K


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mark_harrison_uk2 [mailto:mph@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 24 August 2004 20:11
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Cover art software?
>
> /me catches up with the archives and realises that this is
> the same problem that Peter White asked a few hours ago for itunes.
>
> I'll try those solutions first :-)
>
> Mark
>
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "mark_harrison_uk2"
> <mph@a...> wrote:
> > Thanks to big_red_frog's suggestion, I am now making
> good progress
> > with xlobby (see my other message as to the problem, though :-) )
> >
> >
> > Now I'm using it to index my MP3s, the whole question of
> "cover art"
> > raises its ugly head.
> >
> > I am having a reasonable amount of success by typing the
> album name,
> > artist name into "google image search" and picking the
> first image,
> > but this is a long-winded process.
> >
> > Does anyone know of any software to automate this?
> >
> > - Scan a directory tree
> > - In each directory, find the first .MP3 file
> > - Decode its tag to find album_name and artist_name
> > - Search google images (or wherever)
> > - Download the first JPG returned
> >
> > It's conceptually simple enough to write down like that, and
> > practically long-winded enough to hope that some else
> has already
> > cracked the problem :-)
> >
> > Mark
>
>
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