Automatic Album Cover adder and Lyric downloader

[brotherkeeper]

hey folks... does anybody knows good freeware for this purpose? What I'm looking for, is a tool to do these works automatically... it doenst has to be a tool which is able to do both... it's absolutly ok if somebody knows 2 different tools for that

for the covers I have monkey media with the script "Batch Art finder"... working very very fine, but NOT saving automatically. The more covers you're looking for, the bigger the pain in the a..!

:-)

thx for any answer

B

[MarcGuay]

I can't think of any, but for the covers you might want to try those listed on the AlbumArt wiki page.  The down side of automatic album cover downloading is, of course, that searches aren't perfect, so you're going to end up with a lot of mismatches. 

[GodEater]

I've used amarok to do my album art downloading - can't help you with the lyrics bit though.

[Zardoz]

Maybe try Teen Spirit http://www.artificialspirit.com/ I don't really use those features so I can't vouch for it but it aggregates lyrics and cover art etc from different sources. Worth a whirl

[Serenity]

I had a fun afternoon using the Album Art Aggregator in combination with FastStone Resizer.  Most of my music ended up with art, and I listen to a lot of weird crap.  Neither of them were completely automatic, though.

AAA combs the Amazon of your choice, downloads a few possibilities, and you have to choose which one you like (the program automatically saves it in your album folder with the filename of your choice).  I didn't have to fiddle too much with its choices, which was a pleasant surprise.  Here and there I've been able to find better quality images via Google Images, but if you have a ton of music that needs covers, AAA is pretty slick.

Then FSReisizer went though every folder on my iPod and sized/converted all the images...including images I didn't really want.  I was very careful with the options, since I didn't want to have all the photos backed up on my iPod sized to 200px square. 

As a last step, I used Windows's "Search" function to find all the non-"cover.bmp" images, selected them, and deleted them.  Yay.

Lyric-wise, you're on your own (sorry).

Programs here:
http://team.thenexusnet.com/nexus/AAA/
http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm