Re: Cover art software?

["mark_harrison_uk2" <mph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

/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